University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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1922 YACKETY YACK Jaaar lEbmarli lEm ramt V V V IN proportion to the number enrolled, the men entering the University at its reopening in 1876 furnished to State and nation a remarkably large group of lead- ers in public and private life. With barely a hundred students in its classrooms, there went forth into life those who rapidly became eminent as judges, doctors, ministers, manufacturers, farmers, and teachers. Prominent among the students of the early days is Isaac Edward Emerson, a native of Chapel Hill, a loyal son of the University, a manufacturing chemist of national reputation, a faithful friend and a tireless, successful man in the business world ever smce he left Alma Mater to begin the battle of life. Captain Emerson, of the Class of ' 79, entered the University in 1876, and soon found his natural bent in the Department ot Science where he specialized chemistry and soon qualified as an assistant m the chemical laboratory. On leaving college, he took a position in a local drug store, but soon went to Baltimore where he began business for himself. His business grew so rapidly that in a few years he was among the leading manufacturing chemists of the country. As the years moved along, he became interested in other lines of business in which he has achieved signal success. As a builder of hotels, or the owner of model farms and herds of high-bred dairy cattle, or the possessor of large landed estates, he has always displayed an almost uncanny vision of the future and a force- ful, constructive power that have ever brought success to his every venture, and yet success has never turned his head, and ever and anon his mind has gone back to his old Chapel Hill home, to the little college town where he first heard the sound of a college bell calling him to preparation for larger life in a far-off city of which he little dreamed in his boyhood days. Time and again, he has been invited to positions in the business world outside of his own chosen line of work, but he has invariably declined those invitations and has pursued steadily and successfully his own calling in his own remarkably successful way. In his home, whether it be for the time being, in his hotel, or at one of his beautiful country estates, or in his palatial summer residence on the ocean front, he is the same unostentatious, sturdy Southern gentleman, the same loyal, devoted f CJQj Five it ■vC