Joseph Stickney Emery (1820 – 1909) for whom the city of Emeryville was named, came to California in 1850 and moved to Oakland in 1858. Emery was an original director and later president of Mountain View Cemetery’s planning commission and one of the Cemetery's original Trustees.
Probably his most notable achievement was supervising the dredging of the Oakland Estuary, allowing ferries to run to and from San Francisco. This allowed Oakland to become the terminus of the first transcontinental railroad.
Joseph Emery is buried in Mountain View Cemetery. Ironically, although he worked as a stonecutter, Emery's grave plot has no marker.
Joseph Stickney Emery plot
photo from Our Oakland 
Joseph Stickney Emery House 1
Residence of Joseph Stickney Emery 2
Links and References
- City of Emeryville, CA - Americans Arrive – 1840s to 1890s
- Joseph Stickney Emery on Lives of the Dead
- Joseph Stickney Emery (1820-1909) on Emeryville Historical Society
- Alameda County: The Eden of the Pacific. Tribune Publishing Co: 1898
- Official and historical atlas map of Alameda County, California. Compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys by Thompson & West, 1878.
