Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor.  Washington: West of the Cascades.  Vol. III.
Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917.  p.596-597.

EMERY, W.W.

The name of W. W. Emergy is synonomous with business enterprise and initiative
along the line of lumber manufacturing.  He is now manager of a large and well
equipped mill at Napavine and his identification with the lumber industry of the
northwest dates from 1900.  He comes from a state which was originally the
center of the lumber trade of the country, having been born in Maine in 1861.
From new England he made his way to another state in which the lumber industry
long figured as one of the chief sources of development and prosperity, going
from the east to Wisconsin in 1883, where he spent five years.  Then, attracted
by the opportunities of the growing west, he made his way to the Pacific coast,
settling at Portland, Oregon, where he engaged in the contracting business until
1900, when he removed to Winlock, Washington. There he engaged in the lumber
business, becoming superintendent with the Prescott & Veness Company.  He was
afterward with the Doty Lumber & Shingle Company at Doty, Washington, for three
years in the capacity of superintendent, after which he returned to Winlock,
where he formed a partnership with Fred Veness, organizing the firm of Emery &
Veness.  That association was maintained until 1911, during which period they
operated a sawmill with a capacity of thirty-thousand feet.  They built and
equipped the mill and carried on a profitable business at that point for a
number of years.
	In 1911, however, Mr. Emery removed to Napavine and organized the company
which operating under the name of Emery & Nelson, Incorporated.  There was a
mill there, owned by Hamilton Pitcher.  The new company took this over and
rebuilt the mill until it now has a capacity of sixty thousand feet.  They
manufacture lumber and ship timbers and turn out piling and poles on contract.
One hundred and twenty-five men are employed and the company maintains its own
logging camps and has built and equipped six miles of logging road.  The
officers of the company are: C.A. Doty, president; H.H. Nelson, secretary and
treasurer; and W.W. Emery, manager.  The mill is equipped with steam power and a
water system has been installed by the company for the use of the mill and of
the town.  The mill is operated year around and the business constitutes one of
the important productive industries in this section of the state.
	Mr. Emery was married in Winlock, in 1907, to Miss Emma Gruber, of that
place, and they have three children, Margaret, John and Walter.  Mr. Emery is a
third degree Mason.  he concentrates his attention and efforts chiefly, however,
upon his business interests and his close application has been one of the strong
points in his growing success.  He is now familiar with every phase of the
lumber business and the conduct of his interests has come to rank with highly
respected and prosperous self-made men of western Washington.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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