Emerson Seymour Northrup

Oldest child of farmer, postmaster, merchant, and State politician Daniel Alonzo Northup (1817-1875), in 1860 he was an 18 year old clerk in his father's store living with his parents and 4 siblings at Salisbury Center, Herkimer County, NY. He enlisted on 1 May 1861 and mustered as Second Lieutenant of Company K, 34th New York Infantry on 15 June. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 23 December (rank from 22 November). He was wounded on 30 June 1862 at White Oak Swamp, VA and appointed Captain on 30 August with rank from 1 July.

He returned to his company shortly before the Campaign and led them in action at Antietam.

He mustered out with his company at the end of his term of service on 30 June 1863 in Albany, NY.

He was briefly in the dry goods business in Chicago, IL, married a doctor's daughter back in Salisbury, NY, then settled in Bloomfield, NJ and was a commission agent in New York City. He went west again in 1870 and had a hardware store at Elk Point, Dakota Territory. In 1876 he returned to New Jersey and attended medical school, graduating in 1879. In 1880 he opened a practice in Bloomfield, NJ, but went to St. Louis, MO in December of that year and practiced Homeopathy there to at least 1896. In 1900 he was divorced and a physician in Los Angeles, CA.

Basic service information and his photograph from Chapin,1 with details from the State of New York.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and a bio sketch in Lewis Publishing's Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo. (1896).

He married Charlotte E. Pitt (1837-1931) in June 1856 and they had 2 long-lived daughters, Mary and Ella.

01/22/1842; Salisbury, NY

02/21/1907; Los Angeles, CA