Lelia Dromgold Emig (, Dromgold; January 21, 1872 – September 2, 1957) was an American genealogist. She was the author and compiler of the Hench and Dromgold Records, which was a genealogy of the original families of Nicholas Ickes, John Hench, Zachariah A. Rice, John Hartman, Thomas Dromgold, and kindred families who had settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania prior to the American Revolutionary War, in which they fought. Through defective titles, these pioneers lost their lands, and it was thus that Perry County, Pennsylvania became the haven of those men and women, and whose descendants became a substantial part of the citizenship of Perry County. Early in life, Emig became interested in philanthropic and club work and held many positions of responsibility in the various organizations to which she belonged, including the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.), Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), Rubinstein Club, and Women's City Club of Washington, D.C.. Early life and education Lelia Alice Dromgold was born near Saville Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1872. She was the daughter of Walker A. and Martha Ellen (Shull) Dromgold. When she was nine years of age, her mother died. She had attended the public schools here, but two years after her mother's death, with a brother, she went to York, Pennsylvania, where her father, of the firm of Hench & Dromgold, was engaged in the manufacturing business. There she continued her studies in the public schools, in the Collegiate Institute of York, and the and Peabody Conservatory of Music. In 1890, she accompanied members of the Young W.C.T.U. on a Flower Mission visit to the county jail and became interested in temperance reform. Career On January 17, 1894, she married Clayton Ely Emig (1862–1940), an attorney-at-law, of Washington, D.C., and thereafter resided in the National Capital, their home at Dupont Circle being the center of a large and influential circle of friends. Here she immediately became associated with the District W.C.T.U. and served as a local president, general secretary of work, and state corresponding secretary. She wrote several temperance leaflets. Emig was known as an organizer and was the founder and organizing regent of a large D.A.R. chapter named in honor of her ancestor, Abigail Hartman Rice, a nurse of Revolutionary days. Emig traced her ancestry to the following patriots of the Revolutionary War: John Hench, Jacob