Person:Benjamin Roth (1)

Emery went to high school his freshman and half of his sophomore year in Ada, MN.The family moves to Waukegan just before Christmas and Emery had been given credit for the whole semester. He went to work at the Wire Mill too - at 15. But he did go back to school and finished his sophomore year at Waukegan High. His second half of his 2nd year and junior year were at Waukegan High.

The family moved to Lake Bluff, IL during his junior year, in a large house next to the Armour Estate.  As money was tight, Emery worked in Chicago for a year running a steam run elevator in a 7 story building on Monroe Street.  He took the 5:30 a.m. train to the city each morning and got home at 7:30 each night.  It cost $11.00 a month for his train fare.  He made $110.00 a month.

He went back and graduated from Waukegan High in 1929 and went to work for the American Steel and Wire Company.

When he was laid off in 1931, he went to Champaign to attend the U. of Illinois. The tuition was $35.00 a semester. He paid $7.50 a month for oom and worked at the hospital as an orderly. He met Elizabeth between his freshman and sophomore year at a church picnic. The family had joined the Congregational Church in Ada as that was the church "everyone who was anyone" belonged to. Ben did much for the church, but left it for the Methodist went he was annoyed about someone else's daughter getting something he felt his daughter deserved. So they going to the Methodist Church in Waukegan and Eliz going to the Methodist Church in Libertyville and met at a joint picnic. After sophomore year, he found someone else would get his job at the hospital and being unable to find another that paid as much and furnished food, he went back to the Mill to work.

He and Eliz were married August 28, 1935 and lived in Waukegan.  When he lost his job three years later, they went to live with Eliz's parents in Libertyville and Emery worked with Fred at Tibbetts Dairy.  In 1939, he went

back the the Mill. During war (Emery now has two children) it was discovered he had some college, so he was sent to a school for 10 weeks to learn Industrial Engineering and soon after was offered a job in Joliet, Il. This got him out of the mill and into the office.

We moved to Joliet supposedly for a few years in 1942 and stayed until Eliz and Emery moved to Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1978.

1.   August 1993 Emery told me about his growing up years..