HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


on the farm until i899, at which time he went to live with his son, Jacob,
in
the town of Franklin, where he passed away February 9, I912.
Edward Ebert, Jr., who was the third born of a family of thirteen children,
began working at the age of twenty years for the Chicago & Northwestern
Railroad, with which he was connected for eight years, at the end of that
time
purchasing his /present property. He has all of his property in a high state
of cultivation, fenced with barbed and woven wire, and neatly graded and
supplied with excellent farm buildings, including a basement barn, thirty-six
feet by one hundred and twelve feet, with cement floor, built in i899, and
'a
two-story frame house of twelve rooms, equipped with all modern conveniences,
which was remodeled in i905. Water is secured from    drilled wells.  Mr.
Ebert does general farming, marketing dairy products, hogs, cattle, hay and
grain, and milks on an average of ten cows, principally Durhams. He also
raises Chester-White hogs and Percheron horses.
In I894 Mr. Ebert was married to Miss Margaret Halloran, a daughter of
Frank and Sarah (Hogan) Halloran, natives of Ireland, who were married in
Wisconsin and then settled in the town of Cato on an eighty-acre farm, which
they cleared and developed. The father died in i898, at the age of sixty-eight
years, and his widow is now in her eighty-seventh year and makes her home
with her son-in-law, our subject. Mrs. Ebert was the youngest of twelve chil-
dren, and was born June I5, I872, and died January 30, i910, being buried
in St. Patrick's cemetery, at Maple Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Ebert had three
children: Sarah, a graduate of the Grimms school, who is now being given
a
musical education; and Joseph and Margaret, who are attending school. Mr.
Ebert is a member of St. Patrick's Catholic church, and belongs to the Catholic
Knights of Wisconsin, and the Modern Woodmen of America. In political
matters he is a democrat, and he has served eight years as superintendent
of
roads.
EDGAR A. MECKELBERG.
Edgar A. Meckelberg, one of the progressive and enterprising young business
men of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, where he has been the proprietor of a jewelry
es-
tablishment since I907, was born February i9., i886, in Dodge county, Wisconsin,
and is a son of John and Catherine Brandt (Lindt) Meckelberg. John Meckel-
berg was a native of Germany, and was eleven years of age when he accompanied
his father, Christ Meckelberg, to Dodge county, Wisconsin, at that time a
wilder-
ness. He was married at the age of twenty-one years to a Miss Bellinger,
and
they had a family of four children: Frank, Theodore, John and Amelia, the
last two deceased. After his first marriage, he settled on wild land in Dodge
county, where he began agricultural pursuits with an ox-team, and for seven-
teen years he was also identified with the Beaver Dam Rowel, Seeder &
Drill
Company. He was always a promoter and supporter of church affairs, and was
the originator of several movements to build Lutheran churches in this section.
He was one of the directors of Northwestern University of Wisconsin, and
at
the time of his death, in February, i9i0, when he was seventy-four years
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