Wallace Estill Embry (1846-1911) and Minerva Caroline Sallie Cooper Embry (1857-1950). . Wallace Estill Embry and Minerva Caroline Cooper Embry (later known as Sallie Cooper Embry) were Kentucky residents and descendants of Kentucky pioneers. They arrived in Dade City by train with their seven sons and one daughter (Ruth Marie "Miss Polly" Embry) on January 5, 1898 and lived for one year at the Lakeview Highlands Hotel at Lake Pasadena before moving into Dade City. Their home was later located on the site of the present Dade City Post Office. Mr. Embry and his son Boone Embry were in the shade tobacco business as W. E. Embry and Son and Sunny Brook Tobacco Co. until black shank disease and the 1921 hurricane destroyed the business. Mr. Embry was well-known as a "booster" of Dade City and Pasco County as a good place to live and be in business. Sallie Cooper Embry was the organizing President in 1909 of the Dade City Woman's Club (formerly the Dade City Board of Trade Auxiliary). Hugh Cooper Embry, one of the seven sons of Wallace and Sallie, died prematurely in 1907 at the age of 27 and is credited with having begun Dade City's library - now the Hugh Embry Library (the Dade City Branch Library in the Pasco County Library System) which was named in his honor in 1927. The careers of other Embry sons included business, law, the U.S. military and the U.S. diplomatic service., Boone Embry's daughter Sallie Wallace Embry was married in 1929 to Herbert Stockton Massey, Sr., a citrus grower and banker whose family had also been shade tobacco growers. He later became one of the founders of Pasco Packing Company in 1936 which was for many years the largest citrus processing plant in the world. What was once Massey Field, land north of Meridian Avenue and east of 5th Street given to the City of Dade City by the Massey family, is now partially occupied by Pasco County government offices.
Wallace Estill Embry and Minerva Caroline Cooper Embry (later known as Sallie Cooper Embry) were Kentucky residents and descendants of Kentucky pioneers. They arrived in Dade City by train with their seven sons and one daughter (Ruth Marie "Miss Polly" Embry) on January 5, 1898 and lived for one year at the Lakeview Highlands Hotel at Lake Pasadena before moving into Dade City. Their home was later located on the site of the present Dade City Post Office. Mr. Embry and his son Boone Embry were in the shade tobacco business as W. E. Embry & Son and Sunny Brook Tobacco Co. until black shank disease and the 1921 hurricane destroyed the business. Mr. Embry was well-known as a "booster" of Dade City and Pasco County as a good place to live and be in business. Sallie Cooper Embry was the organizing President in 1909 of the Dade City Woman's Club (formerly the Dade City Board of Trade Auxiliary). Hugh Cooper Embry, one of the seven sons of Wallace and Sallie, died prematurely in 1907 at the age of 27 and is credited with having begun Dade City's library - now the Hugh Embry Library (the Dade City Branch Library in the Pasco County
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Library System) which was named in his honor in 1927. The careers of other Embry sons included business, law, the U.S. military and the U.S. diplomatic service.
Boone Embry's daughter Sallie Wallace Embry was married in 1929 to Herbert Stockton Massey, Sr., a citrus grower and banker whose family had also been shade tobacco growers. He later became one of the founders of Pasco Packing Company in 1936 which was for many years the largest citrus processing plant in the world. What was once Massey Field, land north of Meridian Avenue and east of 5th Street given to the City of Dade City by the Massey family, is now partially occupied by Pasco County government offices.
Location. 28° 21.395′ N, 82° 11.263′ W. Marker is in Dade City, Florida, in Pasco County. It is on 5th Street south of Southview Avenue, on the right when traveling south. The marker is located in Touchton Park across from the Dade City Garden Club.
Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 13630 5th Street, Dade City FL 33525, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is on Florida’s Gulf Coast and on Tampa Bay. It is also in the American South and on the Gulf Coast. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Credits. This page was last revised on August 8, 2024. It was originally submitted on August 1, 2024, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. This page has been viewed 242 times since then and 22 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on August 1, 2024, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
