BIO:  WILLIAM H. EBERLY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 649
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    WILLIAM H. EBERLY, who was long one of the leading business citizens and
  prominent men of Mechanicsburg, a member of the well-known lumber firm of L.
  F. Eberly & Sons, was born Nov. 16, 1840, on a farm in Cumberland county, and
  died at his home in Mechanicsburg April 1, 1902. His parents were Levi F. and
  Eliza (Shuey) Eberly, extended mention of the family being found elsewhere.
    
    William H. Eberly attended the public schools in his youth and was
  considered competent to teach at the age of sixteen years. While he was
  teaching others he was preparing for entrance to the Cumberland Valley
  Institute, which he attended two years later, going from there to Otterbein
  University, at Westerville, Ohio. He was thus well equipped for the
  appointment which he soon afterward received, that of teller for the banking
  firm of Michael Mumma, a position which he ably filled through the various
  changes through which the institution passed. His ability brought him into
  the notice of prominent citizens and in 1864 he was appointed clerk in the
  Quartermaster's department at Annapolis. In 1876, during the Centennial
  celebration at Philadelphia, he was financially interested in the West End
  Railway. Soon afterward he became associated with other capitalists and
  organized and put into operation the Dime Express Company, of Philadelphia.
  In 1878 he sold his interest in this enterprise and returned to
  Mechanicsburg, becoming associated with the firm of L. F. Eberly & Sons,
  which is widely known in lumber circles, and with which he was connected
  until his death. Other business organizations in which he was interested were
  of local character, and he was one of the directors of the First National Bank
  and of the Singer Band, and also of the Chestnut Hill cemetery.
    
    In March, 1863, Mr. Eberly married Katherine Power, daughter of John and
  Elizabeth (Barnes) Power, of Perry county. Her sister, Emma, is the wife of
  Harry Gittinger, of the Lebanon Trust Co. of Lebanon.
    
    Mr. Eberly was a stanch Republican. He was the leader of the excellent
  choir of the U. B. Church. His talent in music was great, and he was a
  composer of no little merit. Possessing a genial manner and a very lovable
  disposition, he was universally popular. His friends could not be numbered
  and his death was was not only a sad bereavement to his widow, but also to
  those who had known and loved him from boyhood.