BIO: Austin G. Eberly, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

409  BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

  AUSTIN G. EBERLY, of Eberly & Orris, manufacturers of wheels and 
wheel material, and all kinds of hardwood lumber, Mechanicsburg, is a 
native of this county, born in Hampden Township, three miles north of 
Mechanicsburg, February 1, 1850, son of John and Barbara (Shelly) 
Eberly, both natives of this county.  John Eberly, a farmer, a member 
of the Methodist Church, died in 1883, aged seventy-one years; his 
widow, a member of Messiah Church, is still living; they were the 
parents of six children, five living:  Benjamin, a traveling salesman, 
with headquarters at Mechanicsburg; Daniel W., a grocer of 
Mechanicsburg; Anna E., widow of Jacob T. Zug, residing at Carlisle, 
Penn.; Austin G., Lizzie B., wife of John B. Uhrich, died in 1880; John 
M., treasurer of the Columbus Wheel and Bending Works, Ohio.  Austin G. 
Eberly remained on the farm, attending school winters, until he was 
sixteen, when he clerked for four years in the grocery store of his 
brother in Mechanicsburg, and then bought his brother out and conducted 
the business alone until 1880, when he formed a partnership with 
another brother, John M., in the wheel and wheel material manufactory; 
his brother sold out to Adam Orris in 1884, and the firm has since been 
Eberly & Orris.  Austin G. Eberly married, October 5, 1876, Miss Lizzie 
A. Coover, a native of Dunkirk, N. Y., daughter of Jacob H. and Jane 
(Sarvent) Coover, the former a native of this county, the latter of 
Piermont, Rockland Co., N. Y.  To this union have been born five 
children:  Paul C., Austin C., Richard C., Olive C. and Ira C., Paul 
C., Richard C., and Olivia C. died of scarlet fever in the winter of 
1884-85.  Mr. Eberly is a member of Eureka Lodge, No. 302, A. F. & A. 
M., Samuel C. Perkins Chapter, No. 209, R. A. M., St. John's 
Commandery, K. T., No. 8, at Carlisle.  He has passed the chairs in 
both the Blue Lodge and Chapter.  Mr. and Mrs. Eberly are members of 
the Church of God, Mechanicsburg.  He is one of the enterprising 
representative business men of the place, and one of the leading 
manufacturers in the valley.  His grandfather, Benjamin Eberly, a 
farmer, married Elizabeth Kauffman.  They were of German de3scent, and 
early settlers of Pennsylvania.