Background
Julia was the daughter of Josiah G. Pierson and Julia Colt. Julia was married to William Jenkins Emmet, a grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet.
Julia was the daughter of Josiah G. Pierson and Julia Colt. Julia was married to William Jenkins Emmet, a grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet.
She studied art with Daniel Huntington.
The couple had ten children. A daughter Julia Colt Emmet died young. Children who lived into adulthood were Robert Temple Emmet (1854-1936), Rosina Emmet Sherwood (1854-1948)(twin), William LeRoy Emmet (1858-1941), Devereux Emmet (1861-1934), Richard Stockton Emmet (b1863), Lydia Field Emmet (1866-1952), Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873-1961), Christopher Temple Emmet (1868-1957), and Thomas Addis Emmet (b1870).
William was an electrical engineer and the leading advocate of the electrical propulsion of ships by turbine.
Devereux was a pioneering golf course architect and amateur golfer. Lydia and Jane were prominent portraitists.
Julia died on September 26, 1908.