The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-25

most wealthy men of Wisconsin, to do
the incidental printing of the session
for one cent. And the contract was
awarded them. At the end of the ses-
sion the four proprietors walked up to
the capitol in body and received and
signed a voucher for this magnificent
sum, the sequel being that the state
found a bill for paper that had been
supplied which was allowed, and the
contractors got a fair price for the
work Of the session.
Had Name Changed.
About this time the name Of the
subject of this sketch was changed
by legislative enactment to Emmons,
and has since been borne by him. At
ter completing his apprenticeship, and
having a desire to see more of the
world, he went back to Rochester, N.
Y. and worked for nearly a year in
the Union Office, then just recently
established. This was during the
campaign of Franklin Pierce and Gen.
Winfield Scott.
Returning to Madison, he worked
again in the offices there, wherever
the state printing was done, for some
years, and then went to st. Louis and
held cases on the old st. Louis Repub-
lie, published at that time by Mr.,
Paschal, as editor, and the Knapp
Brothers. The composing room was a
veritable bee hive, with thirty five
compositors holding cases, and it re-
quired some knowledge of the bust
ness to be competent to hold situa
ton under Mr.. Fowler, the foreman.
He then married, and not relishing so
much night work. returned to Madison
and worked for some years on the
Wisconsin Journal. published by
Messrs. Atwood & Rublee-a staunch
Republican sheet.
He then conceived the idea that he
would like to try his, hand at farm
ing, and moved to Albion. Mich, where
he purchased a small farm, and, as oc :
casion presented itself, assisting L. w.
Cole in publishing the Albion Mirror,
a staunch Democratic paper. and the
war coming on, the Mirror had great
opposition to contend with, even to the
extent of open threats, to mob and
wreck his office. The passage to his
office was straight up two flights OF
stairs, and about 5 o'clock one evening
forty or fifty persons gathered at the
foot of the stairs and were planning
to make a raid upon 1t. Mr.. Cole
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young men, apprentices, and a friend
who had called in. He had two shot
guns and two revolvers, and while
they were discussing who should go
ahead he stepped to the door, shot
gun in hand, and told them that the
first man who stepped foot on the
stairs would receive the contents and
every one that followed would receive
a dose of the same medicine while am
munition lasted. This cooled theil
ardor and no one ventured and he was
never again disturbed.
Not a Farmer.
Shortly after this episode Emmons
decided to move to Iowa, and landed
in Burlington on the eve of the might
that Abraham Lincoln was assassinat-
ed. Following the printing business
| for some years, he decided to agar
try farming and purchased a 200 acre
farm near Burlington. For fourteen
/ years he struggled against adverse
conditions upon 1t and was never ablC
| to meet the debt incurred in the pur-
| chase. He had bought Of a wealthy
| man, who often assured him that ht
never intended to distress him; bu