Talton Embry
For thirty years Talton Embry has been engaged in the live-stock commission business at Cincinnati and during a large part of that time has been a member of the firm of Greene, Embry & Company, one of the leading commission firms at the Union Stock Yards. Having applied himself closely and faithfully to his calling, he has made a success of it and now enjoys the results of many years of wisely applied effort.
Born on a farm in Madison county, Kentucky, June 5, 1861, he is a son of Talton Embry, who was for many years a prominent farmer and live-stock man of his section. Reared on the home farm, Mr. Embry, whose name stands at the head of this sketch, came to Cincinnati in 1881, having decided to devote his attention to the live-stock business. He soon found employment and in the course of a few years became well acquainted with the Cincinnati market and its possibilities. He is not a man to remain long in a subordinate capacity and in 1885 he associated with Thomas M. Greene in the organization of the firm of Greene, Embry & Company, which has ever since that time been in business with headquarters at this point. This concern is now one of the old and well established live-stock commission firms of Cincinnati and can claim patrons in all the states tributary to this market. Branch houses are also maintained by the firm in Evansville, Indiana, under the name of the Bourbon Commission Company; at Jersey City, New Jersey, under the title of the Kern Commission Company; and branches are also maintained at Dayton, Ohio, and Peoria, Illinois. While Mr. Embry has given his attention chiefly to the live-stock business, he is also active in other directions. He has served as vice president of the Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company since its organization in 1906 and is also a member of the board of directors of the Cincinnati Abattoir Company, one of the great corporations of the city. He is a man of good judgement and his advice is often sought by associates in regard to business affairs, his opinions having great weight with all who know him.
In 1896 Mr. Embry was married, at Fort Worth, Texas, to Miss Susan Higbee, and they have one son, Higbee. Their home is in the beautiful suburb of Avondale. Mr. Embry has confined his attention to business, never allowing his energies to be dissipated in other directions, and is recognized as one of the best informed men in his line in the Cincinnati market. His enterprise and ability are manifest in the success that has crowned his efforts and the prosperity he has attained gives assurance of further advancement in the same direction in the future. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Business Men's Club, the Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati and the Hamilton County Golf Club.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Volume III by Rev. Charles Frederic Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912