Geo. W. and Gilbert P. Emmert

"GEORGE W. EMMERT & BRO., general merchants, York Springs. This firm was established November 24, 1884, by George W. and Gilbert P. Emmert, sons of W. D. Emmert, one of the oldest merchants, if not the oldest, in Adams County, and who has been located for the past twenty-four years, as a general merchant, at New Oxford. Both of the brothers were trained to business in their father’s store, and received the advantages of a good education at the schools of New Oxford. Bringing, as they did, the experience of years to their aid in establishing their present business, it at once became a success. They carry on their shelves, the year round, an average stock worth from $8,000 to $9,000, and the sales average upward of $16,000 per annum. This stock consists of everything that is generally kept in a first-class general store.

GEORGE W., was born September 7, 1853. He was employed in this father’s store, at New Oxford, for fifteen consecutive years; was married May 13, 1884, to Alice R. Wortz, a daughter of David Wortz, a retired farmer of Hanover. They have one child: W. Roe. Mr. Emmert is a member of the Methodist, and Mrs. Emmert of the Lutheran Church.

GILBERT P., was born August 19, 1858, and on leaving school had six years’ experience in his father’s store. In 1880, he began to learn the trade of a hardwood finisher in the Ohio Falls car works, at Jeffersonville, Ind., where he remained nineteen months; was then employed in the shops of the Georgia Central Railroad, at Macon, Ga., and in 1884 accepted a position in the famous Pullman Palace Car Works, near Chicago, where he acted as foreman of the filling and finishing room at a salary of $900 per annum, having charge, on an average of from 140 to 150 men. This position he resigned, to engage in his present business, the day before the presidential election of 1884. "