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To answer questions about Joseph Stickney Emery who founded Emeryville, CA I have the following: Here is the lineage:
John, b. 1598/ Alice Grantham
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John, b. abt. 1628, m. Mary Webster
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Joseph, b. Mar. 1663, m. Elizabeth Merrill
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Joseph, b. Apr. 1696, m. (1) Abigail Merrill (I don't know the connection to Elizabeth)
(2) Abigail Long
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Joseph, b. Jun. 1739, m, Hannah Stickney (Joseph was the son by the 2nd marriage)
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Jacob, b. Mar. 1777, m. Jane Gault
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Joseph Stickney, b. 30 Sep. 1820, m. (1) Mary Adele Andres
(2) Ella Andreas
Here is a brief history from Wikipedia: "The Town of Emeryville was incorporated December 2, 1896. It was named after Joseph Stickney Emery who came during the Gold Rush and acquired large tracts of land in what bacame known as "Emery's". In 1884, Emery was president of a narrow-gauge railroad called the California and Nevada Railroad. The railroad was originally intended to extend from Oakland, through Emery's (at that time, just an unincorporated settlement along the bayshore) and then east across the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the gold mining town of Bodie, California. From Bodie the railroad would extend east through Nevada to a connection with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Despite its grandiose intentions, the railroad was only built from Oakland to Orinda and its right-of-way was sold to the Sante Fe Railroad. The Sante Fe then constructed a rail yard and passenger depot below San Pablo between 41st Street and Yerba Buena Avenue. Although located in Emeryville, the depot, which opened in 1902, was called "Oakland".
Emeryville is actually sandwiched in between Oakland and Berkeley. Orinda is about 5 or 6 miles from Emeryville.
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