P. J. Emmert

    P. J. Emmert, proprietor of one of the leading mercantile establishments of Lawrenceburgh, is a native of Bavaria, Germany, where he was born in 1841. When about five years of age he immigrated with his parents to the United States, and resided with them in Maryland and Delaware till about 1854, when they came to Lawrenceburgh, in which place he began selling goods, in this thirteenth or fourteenth year. He has ever since continued in the mercantile business, and has now sold goods longer than any other merchant of the place. His store occupies the corner of High and Short Streets, where he keeps an immense stock of dry goods, notions, carpets, boots and shoes, clothing, gents' furnishing goods, etc., and is doing a large business. He is a cautious, energetic business man, and fully merits the extensive patronage which his fair dealing through a long period of years has won for him. He began operations in 1869, by buying out the firm of Lewis & Moore, the former at one time one of the foremost business men of Lawrenceburgh.

    Mr. Emmert was married, in 1865, to Miss C. Hodel, who died about one year later. He subsequently married Miss Mary M. Dueschle, by whom he has one son -Edward, aged thirteen years.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.