Elgin Emigh, one of the esteemed residents of Lodi Township, was born in Illinois in 1858, son of John Emigh. The family moved to Iowa when Elgin was three years of age, and he lived at home until fifteen years of age, when he started life on his own responsibility by working out as a farm hand until twenty one years of age, when he came to Mower County, and for a year continued to work out. Then he rented land until 1894, when he purchased a forty acre tract in section 2, Lodi Township, to which he later added forty acres in the same section, where he lives, and where he has erected his home and the necessary farm buildings.

He now carries on intensive farming, and also breeds some horses, but makes a specialty of Percheron horses. Mr. Emigh is well liked in the community and has been a member of the town board of supervisors for seven years.

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Transcribed from ""HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY" published in 1911, pg. 765

Submitted to MnGenWeb by Kathy Pike, Nov. 2006