, 1924-09-04
|. EMERY
PIONEER, DIED
in COLORADO

Ezra l.. Emery, pioneer road en-
gineer of Wyoming and at one time
a resident of this city died suddenly
in Steamboat Springs, Colo. a week
ago Thursday and the body was
brought overland to Wamsutter
where the body was met by a large
delegation of Emery's old friends
and was taken to Rock Springs where
the funeral was held on Sunday. The
services were conducted by the Rock
Springs Order of Elks of which Mr..
Emery was an active member.
Mr.. Emery was at one time under
the employ of Judge Merrell in this
city. He assisted in the compiling
of the 1910 census, being one of
the field agents with offices in Raw
Inns. While in Rawlins he married
Miss Maude Mccoy who was court
stenographer to Judge Craig for this
judicial district. 1t is reported that
Judge Craig performed the marriage
ceremony and it is believed hat this
was the only ceremony the Judge
ever performed.
At the time of Mr.. Emery's death
he was under commission from Den
yer interests to select and log a
route from Denver to Rock Springs
which was to be developed as a link
of a Denver entrance to Yellow
stone park" project.
The Rock Springs Rocket pays Mr..
Emery the following tribute.
"A familiar figure in Wyoming
activities was removed by the death
of Ezera Emery, and years of event
full and progressive action are mark
ed to his credit. He was a native
nc Nnhyaeln aud l., hit, ~,,~ ,,n-
hood moved from Omaha to Chey-
enne, where he was at times en-
gagged in the motion picture and
garage business. He became active
in politics and was one of the first
to grasp the Importance of good
roads following the advent of the
automobile. At a sacrifice to his
BUSINESS interests he was the first
to pioneer and lay out an auto road
along the Union Pacific from Chey-
enne to Ogden. 1t was while en-
gagged in this labor that he most
deservedly won the sobriquet of
Good Roads Emery" a title that
pictured him as the modern leader
of what has since rounded out into
the greatest stretch of transcontin-
entail roadway in the country, the
Lincoln highway. AS a surveyor
and practical man, his maps of road
itinerary were followed in most in
stances by those who followed in the
work.
Ezra l.. Emery was SIS years of
age and a native of Nebraska. In
the winter of 1887 he was a carrier
boy on the Omaha Bee and in later
life he recounted that the first paper
he sold on his route vas to the late
ID. o.. Clark. then manager of the
U. p. Coal department. A friendship
grew up tween the practical man
and the boy who was later to spend
over thirty years of his life in various
departments of the great coal cor
porations and its subsidiaries. At
various times he was engaged in the
auditing and engineering depart
ments. and in the early SOS came to
Rock Springs as superintendent of
the Green River Water Works, which
position he r%elinquished to Mr.. Bell
the present superintendent. At the
time of his death he was weighman
at the Reliance mines of the U. p.
Coal company.
Mr.. Emery was a man of Iowa
BILE nature and was prone to rebuke
any person who spoke i'll of another.
His great thought in life was to do
a good deed, rather than to enter
into condemnation OF his fellowman.
He was a man of brilliant mind and
this community is richer for having
cultivated his acquaintanceship. and
shared in his progressive spirit"