Dallas County, TX - Biographies - Louis C. Ebrite ************************************************************************ This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ John Henry Brown's History of Dallas County, 1892, pp. 467 LOUIS C. EBRITE, a lumber merchant and former of Mesquite, was born in Ohio, in 1852, the sixth child born to John M. and Martha A. (Plummer) Ebrite, natives of Ohio. The father was a plasterer and finisher by trade, and also served as a nurse, in a hospital in Virginia three years during the war. He came to this State in 1888, and is at present Postmaster of Mesquite. His first wife, the mother of our subject, died in 1859. They were the parents of eleven children, six of whom still survive, viz.: James M., a school-teacher by profession is a resident of Ohio; Missouri A., wife of Bloon Rickey, a farmer of Ohio, W. B., a farmer of Indiana; Louis, our subject; G. D., a plasterer by trade, resides in Ohio; Laura A., the wife of Mack Nafus, a carpenter of New York. Mr. Ebrite was again married in 1860, to Sophia Swanner, and they have two children, John H., mail agent on the Fort Worth & Denver railroad; Anna A., the wife of Mr. Dunn, a cattle dealer of Ohio. Our subject received his early education in the country schools of Ohio, and at the age of sixteen years commenced life for himself. He followed various occupations until 1877, when he came to this State and settled where he now resides. For two years he farmed on rented land, and then followed the carpenter's trade for some time, contracting and building the majority of the best residence houses of this place. He followed that occupation until 1884, since which time he has confined himself strictly to his business of handling lumber . In 1889 he bought forty acres adjoining the village, where he has three houses, and also owns his own residence, which is one of the handsomest in the village; also the best business house in the town and other buildings. After landing in Dallas, Mr. Ebrite had but $4 in his pocket, and he is now numbered among the leading businessmen of his village. He does a lumber business of some $10,000 or $12,000, besides having other interests. In April, 1888, he was elected Mayor of Mesquite; in 1889 served as Alderman, and in 1890 was again elected to fill the unexpired term of the Mayor who had resigned, and in 1891 he was elected to the same office, thereby showing his popularity in the village of his adoption, where he has so long shown himself a worthy citizen. Mr. Ebrite was married in 1888, to Mrs. Amanda Goodson, a native of Missouri, and daughter of John Shawver, of this county. Mr. Ebrite is a member of the I.0.0.F., Plato Lodge, No. 203, of North Amherst, Ohio, and also of the K. of H., of this place. Mrs. Ebrite is a member of the Methodist Church.