Shenandoah County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Eberly, Jacob Windle 1853 - 
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EBERLY, JACOB WINDLE, banker, was born at Strasburg, Shenandoah county,
Virginia, April 12, 1853. His parents were Philip Eberly and Catherine Eberly.
His father was a farmer during a part of his life, and later a furniture-maker.
He was noted for his unusual mechanical talent.

Mr. Eberly's ancestors came to America from Germany, and settled around Reading,
Pennsylvania. One of the family was Dr. Eberly, whose treatise on the " Practice
of Medicine " is a classic with the medical profession.

Mr. Eberly grew up in the country. He was of small size as a lad, but healthy
and robust; and his special tastes in boyhood were in the direction of music. He
usually had duties to perform at home, and was required to work when not at school.

His opportunities for education were not of the best, as the preparatory schools
to which he had access were poor. He attended for a time the Hardy high school,
at Moorefield, West Virginia; and afterwards went to Roanoke college, at Salem,
Virginia, from which he was graduated in 1877 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

After leaving college, he was for two years a teacher of high schools, and after
that for eleven years he was a merchant. For the past sixteen years he has been
engaged in the banking business. He has been for a long time past the cashier of
the Massanutten bank, at Strasburg. Shenandoah county, and in 19O4 was elected
vice-president, Judge E. D. Newman being president. Mr. Eberly was also
treasurer of the board of missions and church extension of the Evangelical
Lutheran church United Synod of the South, from 1900 to 1904.

He is a member of the Democratic party, and has never changed his political or
party allegiance on any issue.

Mr. Eberly married May 11, 1882, Ella Zea. They have had no children.

His address is Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia.

Additional Comments:
from 
Men of Mark in Virginia, Vol. II, 1907.

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