Biography of George Emerick, page 565.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

George Emerick, one of the successful pioneers of Fairfield Township, was 
born in Somerset County, Pa., May 3, 1818, the seventh of nine children of 
John and Mary (Troutman) Emerick, and grandson to Andrew Emerick (who was a 
soldier under General Washington) and Peter Troutman, natives of Germany, 
who came to the United States prior to the war of the Revolution.  When our 
subject was four years old his parents moved to Wayne County, Ohio, and 
there he grew to manhood, residing with his parents till his majority.  He 
than followed agricultural pursuits for himself till 1851, when he came to 
De Kalb County, Ind., and bought 280 acres of heavily timbered land.  Here 
he and his wife commence to make a home for themselves, and though obliged 
to endure all the privation and inconveniences of pioneer life, they were 
uncomplaining, having the assurance that the future was one of prosperity.  
They now have a landed estate of 400 acres and one of the pleasantest homes 
in the county.  Mr. Emerick was married May 4, 1839, to Sarah Guthrie, a 
native of Richland County, Ohio, daughter of Richard and Mary (Vanscoy) 
Guthrie, natives of Pennsylvania, of Irish and German descent.  To them 
have been born six children, five of whom are living---Mary J., wife of 
Solomon Boyer; George W., Peter Alexander, Lucinda Catherine, wife of 
Benjamin Wilhoit, and Andrew Jackson.  Francis M., died aged fire year.  
In politics Mr. Emerick is a Democrat.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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