Higley, Emory
HIGLEY, HAVERSTOCK, BLAKESLEY
Posted By: Linda Linn, volunteer (email)
Date: 3/12/2010 at 11:20:43
Source: The Higleys and their ancestry : an old colonial family
Emory [Luther] Higley (2d), the ninth child of Hume and Betsey (Norris) Higley, was born at Windsor, O, June 29, 1843. Here he spent the first nineteen years of his life. He received his education at the District School, No. 6.
Early in 1862 he joined the forces banded together for the preservation of the Union, enlisting in Company B, 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a regiment of which ex-President Hayes was at that time the major, and afterward the general-commanding. Emory Higley served with the regiment one year, when he received an honorable discharge on account of general disability. Soon after his return from the Civil War he went to Boston and entered the employ of H. L. Lawrence & Co., commission merchants, remaining with the concern two years. From Boston he removed in 1865 to Butler, Ind., having a favorable proposition of a partnership with Samuel Haverstock in the sale of general merchandise. The firm did an extensive and profitable business uner the firm name of Haverstock & Higley.
The year following, May 13, 1866, he married the daughter of his partner, Mary Haverstock, a most estimable young woman possessing excellent qualifications for a good wife. Her father was a man of wealth. He died some years later, leaving her a valuable property.
But Emory Higley's tastes inclined to journalism. He established the BANNER OF LIBERTY, the first newspaper published in the town of Butler, and finally giving up his excellent business opportunities, and severing his connection with the mercantile firm at Butler, he removed to Vallisca, Ia. and there started a bright and successful journal.
On the 22nd of May, 1872, he married Eliza Blakesley of Malcom, Poweshiek County, IA. He afterward removed to New York City, where he took a position in the house of his brother, Charles Higley & Co. This position he held a few years, and when he returned to Iowa, and settling in Red Oak, established a weekly journal--the RED OAK RECORD, which he successfully conducted for some time. Afterward he went to Le Mars, Ia., where he became the assistant editor and solicitor of the LE MARS DAILY GLOBE, a newspaper of considerable standing and influence in the State. He remained in this connection till his decease.
He had great adaptability and versatility, traits which enabled him to work in many directions. His death was untimely, for he was a man in the very prime of his days. It came suddenly and without any warning. On the evening of November 29, 1885, while spending an evening with a friend, he was seized with a fit of apoplexy, and life soon became extinct. The press, in its editorial obituaries, speaks of him and as having been "a man with faults and errors, but possessing a big heart, generaous impulses, and a bright intellect."
He was interred into the Union Cemetery at LeMars, the funeral being conducted by the G.A. R., of which order he was a member.
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