Julia Colt Pierson Emmet (1829 – September 26, 1908) was an American illustrator and painter.
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Early life
Julia was born in Ramapo in Rockland County, New York. She was the daughter of Josiah Gilbert Pierson (1797–1845) and Julia Boudinot (née Colt) Pierson (1795–1830). Among her siblings was Sarah Colt, who was killed with her husband, the Rev. Robert McMullen, in the rebellion in Cawnpore during the 1857 uprising, by order of Nana Sahib. Her father was an inventor who established the ironworks firm of J. G. Pierson & Brothers in Ramapo.
Her maternal grandparents were Hon. Peter Colt, the Connecticut State Treasurer, and Sarah (née Lyman) Colt; and her maternal uncle was Roswell Lyman Colt. Her paternal grandparents were U.S. Representative Jeremiah H. Pierson and Sarah (née Colt) Pierson. Through her father, she was seventh in descent from Abraham Pierson, the first president of Yale University. The first American Pierson, Abraham Pierson the Elder, came to Boston in 1639 from Yorkshire, England and helped found Southampton, New York, Stamford, Connecticut, and Newark, New Jersey. Among her large extended family was uncle Eleazar Lord (wife of her aunt Elizabeth Pierson); her cousins included Brigadier General John Frederick Pierson and Helen Maria Pierson, who married William Gaston Hamilton (son of John Church Hamilton and grandson of first U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton).