Harvey W. Emery

Harvey Webster Emery (November 8, 1827 – October 13, 1862) was an American lawyer, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.

He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Columbia County for one term, and then served as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War.

[1] After graduating, he taught school and served as principal at the Danville, Vermont, academy, and then the Morgantown, Virginia, female seminary.

[2] The outbreak of the American Civil War occurred just after the adjournment of the 1861 session of the Legislature, and Emery immediately volunteered for service with the Union Army.

In September, he was so racked with disease, he was taken back to his parents' home in Lisbon, New Hampshire, where he died on October 13, 1862.