Santa Clara County Biographies


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HARRY FARLEY EMLAY
 
            Harry Farley Emlay is a son of Eli and Helen C. (Farley) Emlay, with 
whom he came to Gilroy in the fall of 1869.  He was born in Alvarado, Alameda 
County, California, January 19, 1864, and was reared and educated in Gilroy, 
graduating there in the class of 1881.  He entered the Southern Pacific Railroad 
office at Gilroy in 1881, as clerk and apprentice to railroad business.  In 1882 
he went to Menlo Park as assistant in the Southern Pacific office, where he 
remained six months, and was then appointed relief agent, serving in that 
capacity more than one year.  In September, 1883, he received an appointment as 
agent at Mountain View for the Southern Pacific Railroad Co., remaining until 
June 25, 1884, when he was transferred to Menlo Park.  He represented the 
company there until September 9, that year, when he was sent to Santa Cruz and 
remained in charge there until August 15, 1886, when he was placed in charge of 
the company�s business and interests at Gilroy.
            Mr. Emlay is a member of N. S. G. W., Gilroy Parlor, No. 81.  He was 
married in Gilroy July 3, 1884, to Miss Mamie B. Strickland, a native of San 
Francisco, but reared in Chicago.  Politically, Mr. Emlay is a Republican.  It 
is but justice to him to say that since he has been agent of the Southern 
Pacific Railroad at Gilroy, there has never been a complaint against the office, 
and he has the esteem and good-will both of the company and their patrons.
 
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, 
Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1888.
Pg. 335-336
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy