Generations: Emerson Family Spans More Than 90 Years of Hillsdale Athletics

Generations: Emerson Family Spans More Than 90 Years of Hillsdale Athletics

Written by Doug Goodnough More than 130 years ago, the first member of the Emerson family walked the Hillsdale College campus as a student. Since that time, 18 additional family members have attended Hillsdale, leaving a family heritage of which very few can boast. They eventually became teachers, preachers, farmers, and business owners. While at Hillsdale, a good number of those Emersons were student-athletes. The first documented Emerson to do…