Isadore Samuel Emanuel

Isadore Samuel Emanuel (4 February 1860 – 5 January 1954) was a pastoralist and businessman in Western Australia.

Emanuel was born in Goulburn in 1860, the son of Solomon Emanuel, Jr. who was a pastoralist and merchant. His grandfather was Samuel Emanuel who had been elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales for the seat of Argyle in 1862.

Both Isadore and his brother, Sydney Phillip, were employed in a Sydney livery stable that was a part of the family business. The Kimberley district in Western Australia was opened up for settlement in 1880 and their father joined with Michael and Patrick Durack in seeking large areas of land for settlement along the Ord River.

In 1881, after the completion of a reconnaissance of the area, the Emanuels resolved to focus on the Fitzroy River valley area in the West Kimberley area. Isadore arrived in 1884 with a flock of 2,860 sheep and established the sheep station, Noonkanbah Station, and the cattle runs, Gogo Station and Lower Liveringa Station.

The Emanuels profited by employing competent managers and earned good returns. By 1894 they established a company with Alexander Forrest, called Forrest, Emanuel and Company, creating an effective monopoly in the live cattle trade between Derby and the southern port of Fremantle with the Emanuels acting as agents in the Kimberley. The brothers expanded their pastoral interests by acquiring Meda and Jubilee Downs Stations.

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