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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
A Standard History of
THE HANGING ROCK IRON REGION OF
OHIO
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with the Extended
Survey of the Industrial and Commercial Development
Vol. II
ILLUSTRATED
Publishers - The Lewis Publishing Company
1916
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W. G. Eakman, M.D. |
WILLIAM S. EAKMAN,
M.D. Lawrence County claims as one
of its able and popular physicians and surgeons and
representative citizens Doctor Eakman, who is engaged in
the practice of his profession in the City of Ironton, his
prestige being the result of long and faithful service in his
exacting vocation, of which he is a prominent representative in
Lawrence County, besides which interest attaches to his career
by reason of his being a native son of the Buckeye State and a
scion of families founded within the borders of this
commonwealth many years ago.
Doctor Eakman was born on the old homestead farm
of his father, in Walnut Township, Gallia County, Ohio, on the
14th of March, 1853, the place of his birth having been not far
distant from the Village of Waterloo, in the adjoining county of
Lawrence. The doctor is a son of Seth and Sarah J. (McPeek)
Eakman, the former of whom died in 1855 and the latter in
1868, so that the doctor was doubly orphaned when he was a lad
of but fifteen years. Seth Eakman came to Gallia
County from Zanesville, Muskingum County, and he obtained a
tract of land and initiated the development and cultivation of
the farm which continued to be his home until his death, his
lineage having been traced back to sterling Scotch-Irish stock.
Mrs. Sarah J. Eakman was born near Zanesville, this
state, in 1813, a representative of one of the honored pioneer
families of that section of Ohio, and she passed the closing
years of her life in Gallia County, having survived her husband
by more than a decade. They became the parents of eight
children, whose names are here entered in respective order of
birth: David, Hiram, Susan J., Joseph, Uriah, Cyrus, William
S. and Elizabeth.
Doctor Eakman attended the public schools of
Gallia County until he was about sixteen years of age, and he
continued to reside on the old homestead farm with his mother
until her death, after which he found a home with his brother
Hiram until 1872. He attended the village school of
Waterloo, Lawrence County, for one year and for six months was a
student in a select school in that village. That he made
good use of his educational advantages is shown by the fact that
for the ensuing five years he was a successful and popular
teacher, principally in the district schools in this section of
the state.
In preparation for the work of his chosen profession
Doctor Eakman entered Miami Medical College, in the
City of Cincinnati, and in this excellent institution he was
graduated on the 11th of March, 1881, with the well earned
degree of Doctor of Medicine. His initial service in the
practice of his profession was at Pedro, Lawrence County, where
he remained six years and built up a substantial practice.
In 1887 he removed to the City of Ironton, where he has long
controlled a large and representative practice, of general
order, his success having been specially notable in the
treatment of those afflicted with typhoid fever. The
doctor has continued a close student along professional lines
and has thus kept in touch with the advances made in both
medical and surgical science. He is actively identified
with the Lawrence County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical
Society and the American Medical Association. The doctor
served five years as city physician of Ironton and for an equal
period as county physician, besides which he has given effective
service as a member of the Board of United States Pension
Examiners for Lawrence County. He is a Knight Templar
Mason, besides being affiliated with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, his political allegiance
is given to the democratic party and both he and his wife hold
membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fully a
quarter of a century ago Doctor Eakman gave
valuable service as a member of the Ironton Board of Education,
and within recent years he has been again called to this
important office, of which he is the incumbent at the present
time.
Doctor Eakman is known and honored as one of the
liberal and progressive citizens of Ironton, where he is a
member of the Chamber of Commerce and president of the Star
Building & Loan Association, which has done much to further the
development and upbuilding of the city. He is the owner of
three city lots and two houses in Ironton, including his own
attractive residence, on Hepler Street, near the corner of Third
Street. The doctor also has a well improved farm of
seventy acres, in Fayette Township, Lawrence County.
On the 12th of March, 1882, was solemnized the marriage
of Doctor Eakman to Miss Nannie S. Davis, daughter
of William Davis, of Walton, Cass County, Indiana.
No children have been born of this union.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 1008 |
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LEO EBERT.
The late Leo Ebert, who died at his home in the City of
Ironton, Lawrence County, on the 22d of February, 1908, was a
man of strong and upright character and marked business ability,
his influence having long been potent in connection with civic
and material progress in Ironton and his prominence and
enterprise in the business activities involved in the operation
of the extensive and modern brewery that perpetuates his name
having made him one of leading business men of this section of
the Buckeye State, even as he was a loyal progressive citizen
who held inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem.
Leo Ebert was born at Kingenberg, Kingdom of
Bavaria, Germany, near the City of Frankfort, and the date of
his nativity was June 28, 1837, so that he was nearly
seventy-one years of age at the time of his death. He was
a son of Theodore and Barbara (Krutzman) Ebert, and the
family name has been identified with the representative brewing
enterprise of Bavaria for many generations, Theodore Ebert,
father of the subject of this memoir, having fully upheld the
prestige of the patronymic in this field of industry, and both
he and his wife having remained in Bavaria until their death.
Leo Ebert, the eldest in a family of four children,
attended the excellent schools of his home town until he had
attained to the age of twelve years, when he was placed by his
father in the latter's brewery, to be initiated into the
mysteries of the business. For several years he was
acquiring scientific and practical experience in the brewing
business, - at Mannheim, Bremen and other places. - and he
finally returned to the parental home and stood his chances in
the conscription for the army. He was successful, however,
in drawing a high number and thus was relieved of the military
service.
At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Ebert wedded
Miss Mathida Urhlein, and in 1859, shortly after this
important event, he immigrated with his young wife to the United
States. Landing in the port of New York City, he there
worked at his trade of brewer for nine months, and at the
expiration of this period he came to Ohio and established his
residence in the City of Cincinnati. Not being able to
find immediate employment at his trade, he was compelled to work
one summer in a brick yard, and finally he obtained a
position as laborer in a Cincinnati brewery, his ability and
fine technical knowledge leading to his promotion form his
humble capacity to that of foreman within the ensuing two
months. After serving for foreman of the brewery for
sixteen months Mr. Evert came to Ironton, Lawrence
County, in 1861. Here he established a brewery on a modest
scale, and from that time forward his success became cumulative
and substantial. He continued as the executive head of the
Ebert Brewing Company until his death and was one of the
thoroughly loyal and liberal citizens of the Lawrence County
metropolis, to the development and upbuilding of which he
contributed in generous measure. He became financially
interested in various other local enterprises and was known and
honored as one of the prominent and influential citizens of this
section of the State.
In politics, Mr. Ebert originally was
aligned with the republican party, but in 1872 he followed his
sincere convictions and transferred his allegiance to the
democratic party, with which he continued to be actively allied
during the residue of his long and useful life. He was
influential in the councils of his party and as a convincing and
effective public speaker, he "took the stump" in numerous
campaigns. For more than seventeen years Mr.
Ebert held official preferment in Ironton, where he served
as a member of the city council, the board of education and the
board of health. The fine intellectual ken and practical
ability of Mr. Ebert marked him as eligible for
office of distinguished order, and twice he received the
democratic nomination for representative of his district in the
United States Congress. While he was unable to overcome
the large and normal republican majorities in the district, he
brought out the full vote of his party and greatly reduced the
natural majority of his opponents.
In the most significant and worthy interpretation of
the expression, Mr. Ebert was essentially a
self-made man, and he had the sagacity and judgment to make the
best of the opportunities afforded in the land of his adoption,
with the result that he won large and substantial success, the
while he so ordered his course as to merit and receive the high
esteem of all who knew him. He was a man of commanding
presence, brilliant intellect and broad human tolerance and
sympathy. His kindliness and generosity were unfailing,
but he never permitted his benevolences to come into publicity
if this could be avoided, having been one of those who "do good
by stealth and blush to find it fame." Genial and
companionable, Mr. Ebert was not only an
interesting conversationalist but also had remarkable gifts as
an orator. For eight years Mr. Ebert served
as president of the Ohio Brewers' Association, and for two years
was president of the national organization of brewers. He
was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of
Pythias. The death of Mr. Ebert caused deep
and sincere sorrow in his home city, and both business and
social circles manifested their sense of irreparable loss.
The noble character of Mr. Ebert found its most
perfect exemplification in the relations of his ideal home
life, and his widow and children find their greatest measure of
consolation and compensation in the memory of his devotion and
abiding love and tenderness, the gentleness of a strong and
loyal nature.
Of the six children of Leo and Mathilda (Urhlein)
Ebert the eldest is Fannie, who is now the wife of
Henry Geiger, identified with the brewing business in
Ironton, and they have seven children, - Mathilda, Leo,
Henry, Frederick, Charles, Otto, and
Bertha. Gretchen, the second daughter, first
wedded Michael Ranch, who is survived by two
children, Otto and Walter. After the death
of her first husband Mr. Ranch became the wife of August
Ebert, a brewer by vocation, and they now reside in the
City of St. Louis, Missouri, no children having been born of
this union. Tillie is the wife of Charles
Jones, engaged in the undertaking business in Ironton;
Otto N., the only son, is more specifically mentioned on
other pages of this publication. Emma is the wife of
Frederick Wagner, a representative farmer near Pedro,
Lawrence County, and they have eight children, - Leona,
Frederick, Walter, Henrietta, Harold,
Ironton, Roy, and Franklin. Bertha is
the wife of Dr. William C. Miller, engaged in the
practice of dentistry in Ironton, and they have one son,
William C., Jr.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 721 |
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OTTO N. EBERT.
In his native city of Ironton, Lawrence County, Mr.
Ebert is fully upholding the high prestige of the family
name, both as a man of affairs and as a citizen ready at all
times to give his co-operation in the furtherance of those
things that contribute to the welfare of the community. He
is president of the Ebert Brewing Company, one of the
most substantial and important concerns of its kind in this
section of the state, and of this responsible and exacting
position he has been the incumbent since the death of his
honored father, the late Leo Ebert, to whom a
memoir is dedicated on other pages of this publication, so that
at this juncture it is not necessary to enter further data
concerning the family history.
Otto N. Ebert was born in Ironton on the 1st of
September, 1870, and is the only son in a family of six
children, so that upon him have devolved almost entirely the
large and exacting responsibilities that so long enlisted the
able attention of his father. Mr. Ebert is indebted
to the public schools of Ironton for his early educational
discipline, and at the age of seventeen years he completed his
studies in the high school and turned his attention to the
practical affairs of life. He became identified with the
operation of the extensive brewery founded by his father, and
with the passing years he has familiarized himself thoroughly
with all details of this line of industry and developed special
ability as an executive. His father passed to eternal rest
on the 22d of February, 1908, and the son was admirably
fortified to become his successor in the presidency of the
brewing company, an office in which he has maintained the
enterprise at the high standard that has ever marked the same,
and has endeavored to follow out the progressive civic policies
and exemplify the high ideals which signally marked the career
of his father. Mr. Elbert is a member of the
Ironton Chamber of Commerce, is a democrat in his political
adherency, is affiliated with the United Commercial Travelers
and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he attends
and supports the German Lutheran Church, in the faith of which
he was reared. The brewery plant is owned by the family
estate. His home is at the corner of Center and Seventh
Streets, here being centered much social activity, with Mrs.
Ebert as the popular chatelaine of the hospitable home.
On the 25th of August, 1892, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Ebert to Miss Lena Sprenger,
daughter of Frederick and Johanna Sprenger, of Ashland,
Kentucky, and of this union were born six children, -
Mathilda, Bertha M., Hilda P.. Leo. Helen K.. and Otto
X.. Jr. Mathilda and Leo are deceased.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of
Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1916 - Page 724 |
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HOMER
M. EDWARDS. A young lawyer of Ironton who has done
much to prove his ability and open a way for a large and
successful career in the law, Homer M. Edwards was
admitted to the bar and began practice in 1911, and had already
by ten years of successful work performed an important service
in the field of education, and for nine years was a member of
the County Board of School Examiners of Lawrence County.
Homer M. Edwards was born at Deering in Lawrence
County, July 1, 1884. His father, Meredith Edwards,
was born at South Point in Lawrence County, June 10, 1852, is a
substantial farmer who still lives near Deering. The
mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Allen, represents
through her family one of the oldest settlers in Lawrence
County. She was born at Deering in 1848 and died in 1906.
Of their six children two died in infancy and the others are:
Effie, now Mrs. E. M. Stanly of Kittshill,
Lawrence County; Charity now Mrs. G. E. Harris of
Coal Grove, Lawrence County; Homer M.; and John C.,
a resident of Ironton.
Mr. Edwards is a product of the common schools
of Lawrence County, finished the course of the high school at
Coal Grove in 1901, and for eleven years was active in
educational work. Three years after beginning his career
as a teacher he was appointed to the office of examiner of
county schools, and was principal for two years at South Point
and then for three years superintendent of the schools at Coal
Grove, and for two years was principal in the Ironton schools.
Mr. Edwards graduated with the degree Ph.B. at Lebanon
University in 1908, and took his law studies in the Northern
Ohio University at Ada, finishing with the degree LL.B. in 1911.
Admitted to the bar in the same year. he began practice at
Ironton, Jan. 15, 1912, and has since enjoyed a growing and
profitable general practice.
Mr. Edwards is a Knight Templar Mason, and his
other fraternities are the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Modern Woodmen of
America. He is a trustee of the Baptist Church and a
member of the County Bar Assassination. For seven years in
connection with other educational work he served as county
school examiner. Outside of his profession, which absorbs
practically all his time and attention, Mr. Edwards finds
his pleasure in hunting, and is the owner of a fine residence on
Sixth Street in Ironton. He was married to Pansy B.
Winters, of Ashland, Kentucky, on May 28, 1914.
(Source: The Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron
Region of Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
- 1916 - Page 696) |
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