Background
Emerson, Willis George was born on March 28, 1856 in near Blakesburg, Iowa, United States. Son of Review Stephen L. and Mary L. (Peck) Emerson.
Emerson, Willis George was born on March 28, 1856 in near Blakesburg, Iowa, United States. Son of Review Stephen L. and Mary L. (Peck) Emerson.
Knox College, Illinois, 1876-1877. (Doctor of Laws, Northern Ohio U., 1900).
Admitted to bar, 1886. Removed to Kansas, 1886. Engaged in banking; now president Emerson Realty Company, Los Los Angeles Presidential elector, 1888.
Commissioner Paris Exposition 1900, St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Vice-chairman Speakers Rep National Committee, campaign 1900. His speech replying to “Coin” Harvey’s Financial School was issued as a Republican campaign document, 1896, and in 1900 over half a million copies of his speech on sound money were circulated throughout the country.
Author: American Valor (speech at Gettysburg, 1911). The Treasure of Hidden Valley, 1915. A Vendetta of the Hills, 1916.
The Man Who Discovered Himself, 1917. Home: Denver, Colo.
Married Bonnie O’Neal, June 4, 1907.