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Emanuel was born in London, a son of Samuel Moss Solomon (ca1769 – 13 May 1842) and his first wife Elizabeth née Moses (ca1772–ca1814).
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Emmanuel Solomon
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He arrived in South Australia in 1837 and was one of the founders of the Adelaide Hebrew Congregation. In 1848 he and Matthew Smith purchased 85 acres (34 ha) of land on Spencer Gulf and subdivided it as a township to be known as Portuguese Pirie. Little development occurred on site and by the late 1860s there were only three woolsheds on the riverfront.
lieutenant was later re-surveyed and became Portuguese Pirie"s suburb Solomontown, commonly referred to as "Solly".
Solomon is commemorated for the generosity he provided to Mary MacKillop. In November 1871 he gave the Sisters of Saint Joseph, who had been evicted from their convent, a house rent free.
In December 1871 he hosted a reception for 500 early settlers of South Australia to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the foundation of the colony. He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1867 and retired in September 1871.
Their children included:
Rosetta Solomon ( – 24 December 1901) married Joel Moss on 5 July 1865, lived at "Westwood", Glebe Point, New South Wales.
Joseph Samuel Solomon (ca1844 – 4 September 1940) married Miriam Solomon (died 6 December 1921), eldest daughter of Abraham Jacob Solomon (ca1825–1889), on 25 November 1868. They lived at Walkerville Terrace, Walkerville. Julia Solomon (ca1844 – January or February 1881) married Victor Voules Brown on 24 January 1864.
She died in Darwin.
Catherine Leah Solomon (ca1848 – 4 July 1897) married Louis Victorsen of Clare on 27 May 1874 at the residence of J. South Solomon, Buxton Street, North Adeaide. Vaiben Joel Solomon (27 November 1854 – 27 January 1936) married Dora Muhr on 25 July 1877.
