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Lelia Dromgold Emig 1872 ~
Lelia Dromgold Emig, eldest daughter of
Walter A. and Martha Ellen Shull Dromgold, was born near
Saville, Perry County, Penna. Left motherless at the age of
nine, her father moved to York, Pa., where he has since engaged
in extensive manufacturing business.
In 1890 she accompanied members of the Young Women's Christian
Temperance Union on a Flower Mission visit to the county jail
and became interested in temperance reform.
In 1894 she was married to Clayton E. Emig, an attorney-at-law,
of Washington, D. C. Here she immediately became associated with
the District Woman's Christian Temperance Union and has served
as a local president, general secretary of work and state
corresponding secretary; and has written several temperance
leaflets of merit
Mrs. Emig is active in church and rescue mission work and is a
member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, tracing her
ancestry to the following patriots of the Revolutionary War:
John Hench, Jacob Hartman, Zachariah Rice, Nicholas Ickes, John
Hartman, Frederick Shull, Thomas Donally and Abigail Rice, of
Pennsylvania.
''The Dromgold family in America" is her latest
published contribution to genealogy.
In 1909 she organized a Society of Children of the American
Revolution, which was named by Mrs. William Howard Taft in honor
of her distinguished ancestor, Thomas Welles, the fourth
colonial governor of Connecticut The society has 100 members and
includes many of the official families of Washington.
Mrs. Emig is the mother of three daughters, Evelyn, Gladys, and
Lelia, who are enthusiastic followers in her philanthropic work.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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