This is all I found on John B. Emerson. He married Alice Pavey. Bob The Mt. Vernon Register-News, Tuesday, September 7, 1948 John B. Emerson Dies in Peoria Word has been received here of the death of John B. Emerson in Peoria Saturday, September 4. Mr. Emerson was a former resident of Mt. Vernon and was a chemist at the Mt. Vernon Car Manufacturing Company. He is survived by his wife, Alice Pavey Emerson of St, Louis, and a daughter, Mrs. J. R. Johnston of Peoria. Interment will be in Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin.