Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Ebeling, William April 11, 1853 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com June 8, 2011, 2:51 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist WILLIAM EBELING, Sugar Boiler. William Ebeling, for more than forty years engaged in the Hawaiian sugar industry as a sugar boiler, was born at Osterwick-Magdeburg, Germany, on April 11, 1853, the son of Frederick and Sophie Ebeling, and was educated at the Friedrich Wilhelm State Real and Gymnasium and Berlin University. He served in the Franco-Prussian war, was a coppersmith in Germany, 1868-76, went to California in 1877 and followed his trade there until 1879, when he came to Hawaii. He worked as a sugar boiler at Kilauea, Naalehu, Spreckelsville, Lahaina and Papaaloa until 1887; was with the Hilo Sugar Co., 1887 to 1911, and since 1911 has been employed at Makaweli, Kauai. Mr. Ebeling married Minna Mercyana (deceased) and had ten children, eight of whom, two boys and six girls, are living. He is a Knight of Pythias and a past chancellor commander of Hilo Lodge No. 7. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/ebeling316bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb