Wallace Estill Embry and Minerva Caroline Cooper Embry, later known as Sallie Cooper Embry, were Kentucky residents and descendants of Kentucky pioneers who arrived in Dade City by train with their seven sons and one daughter, Ruth Marie "Miss Polly" Embry, on January 5, 1898, lived for one year at the Lakeview Highlands Hotel at Lake Pasadena, and then moved into Dade City, where their home was later located on the site of the present Dade City Post Office. Wallace Embry and his son Boone Embry worked 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. Wallace Embry became well known as a booster of Dade City and Pasco County as a good place to live and do business, and Sallie Cooper Embry was the organizing president in 1909 of the Dade City Woman's Club, formerly the Dade City Board of Trade Auxiliary. Their son Hugh Cooper Embry died prematurely in 1907 at age 27 and is credited with beginning Dade City's library, later named the Hugh Embry Library in his honor in 1927. Other Embry sons entered business, law, the U.S. military, and the U.S. diplomatic service. Boone Embry's daughter Sallie Wallace Embry married Herbert Stockton Massey, Sr., in 1929; his family had also grown shade tobacco, and he later became one of the founders of Pasco Packing Company in 1936, which for many years was the largest citrus processing plant in the world. Land once known as Massey Field, north of Meridian Avenue and east of 5th Street, was given to the City of Dade City by the Massey family and is now partially occupied by Pasco County government offices.