John Emery

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Charles A. Doudiet, watercolour on paper, 1854, watercolour, on paper.
Courtesy Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery with the assistance of many donors, 1996.
Walter E. Pidgeon, Illustration from The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni, Sunnybrook Press, 1942, offset print.
Art Gallery of Ballarat, purchased 1994.

Background

John William Emery was from Boston, Massachusetts, America. He died in October 1887, and was buried at the Ballaarat Old Cemetery on 17 October 1887.[1]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

J.W. Emery owned the building that housed the bowling alley attached to the Eureka Hotel.[2] It was very popular, but burnt down along with James Bentley's Eureka Hotel on 17 October 1854. Emery applied for 600 pounds compensation for his losses, and was awarded that amount.[3]

On 13 October 1854 Emery, Moody, Smith and Nicholls signed a letter congratulating James Bentley on his acquittal. [4]

Emery was a witness examined during the report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the riot at Ballarat, and the burning of James Bentley's Eureka Hotel. [5]

Post 1854 Experiences

In 1858 John Emery ran the Washington Hotel in Main Road, Ballarat East.[6]

See also

Eureka Hotel

Further Reading

Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.

References

  1. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  2. Potts, E. Daniel and Potts, Annette, Young America and Australian Gold. University of Queensland Press, 1974; E. Daniel & Annette Potts, American Republicanism and the Victorian Goldfields IN Historical Studies, Volume 13, April 1968, pp. 145-164, University of Melbourne, 1968.
  3. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  4. Potts, E. Daniel and Potts, Annette, Young America and Australian Gold. University of Queensland Press, 1974.
  5. Report of the Board appointed to Enquire into Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbance at Ballarat, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 21 November 1854.
  6. https://bih.federation.edu.au/index.php/Washington_Hotel_(Ballarat)

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