Santa Barbara County Biographies

EMERSON & COMPANY

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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EMERSON & COMPANY.� The prietors of the handsome and the commodious shoe 
store at 716 State street, Santa Barbara, are both natives of Wakefield, 
Massachusetts, and are descendants of shoe manufacturers, even to their remote ancestry. 
Daniel W. Emerson, the senior partner, was born at Wakefield, and was a manufact- 
urer of shoes in Wakefield and Haverhill. He came to California in the interest of gold 
mining in 1867. having purchased interests in the East, but the mines proving a failure 
he bought the co-operative boot and shoe business of San Francisco, manufacturing 
shoes in the city wholesale and retail trade, and also running retail stores in the country. 
One being established in Santa Barbara in 1873. Mr. Emerson continued manufactur- 
ing until 1886, when, after doing a prosperous business he sold out his interest and 
came to Santa Barbara to live a more retired and quiet life. 

He was married in Wakefield, in 1865, to Miss Ellen Wiley, and they have two children: 
Percey W. and Fred W. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.