While simplicity marked the funeral
services and burial, Saturday afternoon,
of the late Lewis Emery, jr.
the entire city joined In mourning the
loss of its most distinguished citizen
was the result was a somber display
never before witnessed here.
With Main street lined with flags
half mast, all stores and business
where closed, with curtains drawn,
while people lined both sides of the
street, the funeral procession wended
s way from the Congress street
home, along Main street, to Bast
Main and to Oak Hill cemetery where
the earthly remains of the pioneer
were laid in their perennial resting
place—in the Emery mausoleum.
The brief commitment service of the
Presbyterian church was read by the
Rev. F. Dean Miller, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of which
Mr. Emery had been a, member.
At 3 o'clock, when services at the
cemetery had concluded, the stores
reopened for business and the city resumed
its normal life, having paid its
last tribute t«o Lewis Emery, jr., by
one hour of complete suspension of
business.
At the Congress street home, the
Presbyterian form of funeral service,
without elegy, was read by the Rev.
Mr.Miller. It consisted of the reading
of a psalm, prayer Scripture
lesson, the quotation "Waiting" by
Burroughs, and benediction. The
house was crowded with relatives and
friends of the deceased, including employes
of the Emery interests, many
of whom had been in the employ of
Mr. Emery for the past 30 to 40 years.
Heads of the various departments
of the Emery interests acted as honor,
ary pall bearers. They are E. E.
Bryner, C .W. Boring, W. A. Mc-
Cafferty, E. B. Bryner, George J.
Reidy and Alex Lackman. Active
pall bearers were James Speckernaglo
Charles Rowe, Edward Toungberg.
Charles Benson, Amil Sandeen and
Roy Bryner, employes of the Emery
Manufacturing company and of the
Minard Run Oil company.
Among relatives and friends who
came to Bradford to attend the obsequies,
were:
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Forrest and
Miss Alice Card of Port Hope, Ont;
Mrs. Josephine Combs, Hugh King,
Charles Rathbone, James Amm, New
York; J. S. Bonner of Middileton, N.
Y.; Mrs. L.A. Brenneman, Miss Vorna
Brenneman of Pittsburgh; J. B. Le-
Compte, Harrisburg; Mr. and Mrs. G.
Ellsworth Green. Lockport, N. Y.;
Miss Stradling of Philadelphia; Mrs.
J. T. Jones of Buffalo; Harry Hyde
of Ridgway; E. It. Benson of Mt.
Jewctt; George W. Mitchell and Mrs.
E. J. Lobdell of On away, Mich., t he
former identified with the American
Wood Rim Co.; Dr. Joseph Mauck,
president of Hillsdale college, Hillsdale,
Mich., representing his college.
B. M. Bailey and "William Bailey of
Jamestown; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. L.ain
of Bolivar, N. T.; Fred Groves of
Orange, Is. J.; S. Y. Ramago of Oil
City; John Caldwell, Titusvilie; Arthus
Henry. Eldrerl: Lewis Wals of
Oil City; Hon. S. W. Smith of Port
Allegany.
Messages of condolance were received
by the berieved family from
all parts of the United States and
frqm many foreign countries. Many
were from men of note, including
Fernando C. Fuchs, minister of finance,
of Peru, South America; Joseph
Seep, J. McKinney, Titusvilie; Governor
Gifford Pincliot. of Pennsylvania;
Ex-Governor Edwin Stewart of
Pennsylvania; Ex-Governor William
Sulzer of,New York State; George H.
Burrel, manager of the Bowman
Hotel company, New York; George
A. Bowman of the B. R. & P . railroad;
H. C. Shepard of the National
City bank of New York; Senator Herman
P. Miller. Harrisburg; Ex-Senator
Vivian Gable, Tyone Petroleum company.
THE BRADFORD ERA, 11-24-1924, pg 4
While simplicity marked the funeral
services and burial, Saturday afternoon,
of the late Lewis Emery, jr.
the entire city joined In mourning the
loss of its most distinguished citizen
was the result was a somber display
never before witnessed here.
With Main street lined with flags
half mast, all stores and business
where closed, with curtains drawn,
while people lined both sides of the
street, the funeral procession wended
s way from the Congress street
home, along Main street, to Bast
Main and to Oak Hill cemetery where
the earthly remains of the pioneer
were laid in their perennial resting
place—in the Emery mausoleum.
The brief commitment service of the
Presbyterian church was read by the
Rev. F. Dean Miller, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of which
Mr. Emery had been a, member.
At 3 o'clock, when services at the
cemetery had concluded, the stores
reopened for business and the city resumed
its normal life, having paid its
last tribute t«o Lewis Emery, jr., by
one hour of complete suspension of
business.
At the Congress street home, the
Presbyterian form of funeral service,
without elegy, was read by the Rev.
Mr.Miller. It consisted of the reading
of a psalm, prayer Scripture
lesson, the quotation "Waiting" by
Burroughs, and benediction. The
house was crowded with relatives and
friends of the deceased, including employes
of the Emery interests, many
of whom had been in the employ of
Mr. Emery for the past 30 to 40 years.
Heads of the various departments
of the Emery interests acted as honor,
ary pall bearers. They are E. E.
Bryner, C .W. Boring, W. A. Mc-
Cafferty, E. B. Bryner, George J.
Reidy and Alex Lackman. Active
pall bearers were James Speckernaglo
Charles Rowe, Edward Toungberg.
Charles Benson, Amil Sandeen and
Roy Bryner, employes of the Emery
Manufacturing company and of the
Minard Run Oil company.
Among relatives and friends who
came to Bradford to attend the obsequies,
were:
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Forrest and
Miss Alice Card of Port Hope, Ont;
Mrs. Josephine Combs, Hugh King,
Charles Rathbone, James Amm, New
York; J. S. Bonner of Middileton, N.
Y.; Mrs. L.A. Brenneman, Miss Vorna
Brenneman of Pittsburgh; J. B. Le-
Compte, Harrisburg; Mr. and Mrs. G.
Ellsworth Green. Lockport, N. Y.;
Miss Stradling of Philadelphia; Mrs.
J. T. Jones of Buffalo; Harry Hyde
of Ridgway; E. It. Benson of Mt.
Jewctt; George W. Mitchell and Mrs.
E. J. Lobdell of On away, Mich., t he
former identified with the American
Wood Rim Co.; Dr. Joseph Mauck,
president of Hillsdale college, Hillsdale,
Mich., representing his college.
B. M. Bailey and "William Bailey of
Jamestown; Mr. and Mrs. W. T. L.ain
of Bolivar, N. T.; Fred Groves of
Orange, Is. J.; S. Y. Ramago of Oil
City; John Caldwell, Titusvilie; Arthus
Henry. Eldrerl: Lewis Wals of
Oil City; Hon. S. W. Smith of Port
Allegany.
Messages of condolance were received
by the berieved family from
all parts of the United States and
frqm many foreign countries. Many
were from men of note, including
Fernando C. Fuchs, minister of finance,
of Peru, South America; Joseph
Seep, J. McKinney, Titusvilie; Governor
Gifford Pincliot. of Pennsylvania;
Ex-Governor Edwin Stewart of
Pennsylvania; Ex-Governor William
Sulzer of,New York State; George H.
Burrel, manager of the Bowman
Hotel company, New York; George
A. Bowman of the B. R. & P . railroad;
H. C. Shepard of the National
City bank of New York; Senator Herman
P. Miller. Harrisburg; Ex-Senator
Vivian Gable, Tyone Petroleum company.
THE BRADFORD ERA, 11-24-1924, pg 4
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