BIO:  EDWARD M. EBERLY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 746
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    EDWARD M. EBERLY (deceased) Few men are better known in Mechanicsburg than
  was Edward M. Eberly, now deceased, who was for many years with the
  long-established firm of L. F. Eberly & Sons. He was born in Cumberland
  county, April 1, 1845, and died April 28, 1901.

    His parents were Levi F. and Eliza (Shuey) Eberly, who originally came from
  Lancaster county. The father was in early life a farmer, but later became a
  member of the firm of L. F. Eberly & Sons, lumber dealers of Mechanicsburg.
  Levi Eberly was a son of David and Catherine (Frankenberger) Eberly, both of
  whom were natives of Lancaster county. The birth of the father of our
  subject, took place in Cumberland county, in 1818, and his death occurred in
  the same county, April 12, 1895. He and his wife had four children: Harrison
  W.; David H., who resides in the West; Edward M.; and Ira S.

    Edward M. Eberly was reared upon the Cumberland county farm, receiving a
  fair district school education, and when yet a boy came with his parents to
  Mechanicsburg. In 1861 he volunteered in the six months' service in an
  infantry company. On Feb. 27, 1864, he volunteered in Company L, Pennsylvania
  Cavalry, under Col. Jacob Higgins, serving until the close of the war. When he
  returned home in the summer of 1865, it was with a record of having
  participated in nineteen different battles with the Army of the Potomac.

    In 1867 Mr. Eberly married Maggie Zacharias, of Mechanicsburg, by whom he
  had two children: Raymond E., a tinsmith, married Miss Myrtle Kilmore; W. B.,
  a tailor, married Miss Margaret Orris. In politics, Mr. Eberly was a
  Republican, but did not seek office. He was a member of the G. A. R. Post of
  Mechanicsburg, and for thirty-five years was a member of the Washington Fire
  Company of that city. For over thirty years he was one of its leading
  business men, and not only was a representative of the best interests of the
  city, but a man widely known and highly esteemed.