Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of Henry BIEBERSON

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, THe American Historical Society, Inc.,
CHicago and New York, Volume II
pg. 256

HENRY BIEBERSON, who is living retired in the beautiful suburb of Woodlawn,
on the National Road, two miles distant from the center of Wheeling, of
which the district is a part, is vice president of the Wheeling Fire
Insurance Company, the only corporation of its kind in the state and one of
which specific mention is made on other pages of this work.

Mr. Bieberson was born in Germany, in 1848, and there gained his early
education, he having been sixteen years of age when he came to the United
States.  In 1874 he opened a restaurant on the South Side in the City of
Wheeling, and this gained high reputation and continued a popular resort for
twenty-eight years.  Mr. Bieberson won substantial success through his
careful and honorable business activities, and he was formerly a director of
the Bridgeport Bank & Trust Company and in 1902 became president and manager
of the Belmont Brewing Company at Martin’s Ferry Ohio.  Under his direction
this company gained high reputation  for the quality rather than the
quantity of its output, and was a model in connection with the brewing
industry of the country.  Mr. Bieberson is interested in the West Virginia
Fair Association, and formerly served as a trustee of the Home for the Aged.
He was a director of the company which constructed the Wheeling & Elm Grove
Railroad.  He came to this country in 1865, in company with an aunt and with
his sister, the latter being now the widow of August Rolf.  Mr. Bieberson
came to Wheeling in 1867, and even the brief data incorporated in this
sketch indicate that he has been closely and worthily associated with the
development and progress of the city.  He is also interested in the West
Virginia Steel Corporation, which absorbed the La Belle Iron Company and the
Benwood Iron Works, in each of which he had been a stockholder and director.
He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and his
personal popularity is an a parity with his prominence and loyalty in
connection with civic and business affairs in Wheeling.  It may further be
stated that he is a director in the Citizens-People’s Trust Company, was a
member of the original directorate of the Bridgeport Banking company, and is
a director of the Maher Colliers Company of Cleveland, Ohio, which operates
mines in Belmont County, that state, and which is one of the most important
operating companies in the coal fields of the Wheeling District.  Mr.
Bieberson was one of the principals in the platting of the Belvidere
addition to the City of Wheeling, and for the past twelve years he has
maintained his home at Woodlawn, one of the finest residential districts of
Wheeling.

In 1873 Mr. Bieberson married Miss Fredericka Schmacher, who was born and
reared at Wheeling, her father having been a native of German and having
been one of the pioneer German citizens of Wheeling, where he engaged in the
work of his trade, as a skilled stone-cutter.  Mr. And Mrs. Bieberson became
the parents of two sons and three daughters, two of the daughters being
deceased.  The daughter Emma, who became the wife of Karl Goetz, died when a
young woman.  Henry is a manufacturer in the City of Delaware, Ohio; Lillie
E. is the wife of Henry C. Hackmann, of Wheeling; Anton is manager of the
real estate department of the Citizens-People Trust Company at Wheeling; and
Cora died when a young woman.

Mr. Bieberson has lived a sane, worthy and constructive life, and has done
much to further the civic and material development and progress of his home
city and community.  I n earlier years he was actively identified with the
Turnverein and Liederkrantz societies of Wheeling, which represented much in
the social and cultural life of the community.  He served as president of
St. John’s Evangelical Protestant Congregation for several years and is
active in church work.