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Ireland, Emery I. (b. 1874)
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History of Ritchie County
by Minnie Kendall Lowther
Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911

Pages 628-629

Emery I. Ireland makes a good representative for this department
from the Scientific world.

He is the son of G. M. and Mrs. Mary Law Ireland of Pullman, and at
the old homestead on the Middle Fork river he was born, on June 10,
1874; and at the age of nineteen years, stepped upon the stage as a
school-teacher with a first grade certificate. He continued in
teaching in the rural districts for several years; was graduated
from the Buckhannon Seminary, in the Normal course, in the class of
1897, and while taking advanced work here, the following year,
occupied the position of assistant-teacher of Mathematics, and was
also the president of the "Chrestomathean Society" at this
institution.

During the autumn of 1898, he entered the University at Morgantown,
and came out in 1901 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Civil
Engineering. While here he was the president of the "Columbian
Literary society" and on two occasions, represented this
organization in the inter-society contest, winning in debate on one
occasion, and losing on oration, on the other, as he did when he
personated the "Chrestomathean society" at Buckhannon, in pubHc
performances. He also represented the Y. M. C. A. of Morgantown at
the Students Conference at Northfield, Massachusetts, during his
collegiate course.

Being a member of the Engineering Society, while at the University,
he spent his Saturdays and holidays in surveying and in
engineering, so as to help defray his expenses; and after his
graduation, entered the United States Geological Survey, and did
work as a temporary employee both in the field and in the office at
Washington city until the spring of 1903, when he passed the Civil
service examination and received the appointment of assistant
Topographer; and by promotion, in 1908, was made Topographer. His
work is in the field in summer, and, in the office in Washington
city in winter. Various counties of West Virginia, parts of
Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado have been the scenes of
his labors, and not a few of the interesting topographical maps
that are scattered about through the country are in part the result
of his skill. He is a member of the Washington Society of
Engineers, and of the American Geographic Society, and takes an
active interest in church work, especially the Missionary
department and the Epworth League, being a communicant of the
Foundry Methodist Episcopal church at Washington city and the
Superintendent of the Sunday-school.

He was married to Miss Elizabeth H. Funk, daughter of Mr. Lee W.
Funk, of Washington city, on December 15, 1909, and in this city he
is now permanently established.

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