Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Eberhart, Adolph M. August 19, 1841 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 267
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Adolph M Eberhart was born August 19, 1841, in Springhill township,
Fayette county, Penna.  He is a son of Adolph Eberhart and Sarah Beatty
Eberhart, both natives of Fayette county, Penna.
    Adolph Eberhart Sr, subject's grandfather, came from Switzerland to
Maryland.  He came to Fayette county, Penna, when a young man and learned
the trade of glass blowing and glass cutting.  He was an employee of the
first glass factory west of the Allegheny Mountains, located on Georges
Creek near New Geneva.
    He married Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Col Theophilus Phillips who
came to Fayette county about 1760 and soon thereafter purchased a large
tract of land in Springhill township, called "Phillips Choice" containing
about 480 acres.  He died en route from New Orleans to Philadelphia and
was buried at sea.
    Adolph Eberhart Jr, subject's father, was born June 8, 1816, and was
raised on his father's farm.  He was married in 1839, was a farmer, and,
at his father's death in 1863, inherited one half of the homestead farm
of 480 acres, once "Phillips Choice." He erected a comfortable house on
the land, and there he continued to farm till his death.  From 1850 to
1852 he was engaged in the manufacture of glass at New Geneva as a member
of the firm of A and M Eberhart & Co.  From 1852 he gave his attention to
farming until his death, September 10, 1882.  He was a prominent democrat
during life and served acceptably as a road commissioner and school
director.
    His wife, Sarah Beatty Eberhart, was a daughter of Thomas Beatty,  a
farmer of Springhill who was an earnest democrat and was justice of the
peace in Springhill for a number of years.  He was a strict Presbyterian
and died in 1840.  
    Adolph Eberhart and Sarah Beatty Eberhart had eleven children, six sons
and five daughters: Mary Jane Eberhart, dead; Adolph M Eberhart; Eliza 
Eberhart, dead; William Eberhart, dead.  Mrs Eberhart was born in 1813,
March 31st and died May 14, 1877.
    Adolph M Eberhart worked on the farm and attended the common schools
until eighteen years of age when he left school and engaged in farming on
his father's land until 1887.  In that year he bought eighty six acres of
the home farm and lives in the homestead mansion.  He has on his farm a
bed of potter's clay of the finest quality; from this he realizes about
$500 per year.
    Mr Eberhart has followed farming all his life.   He is an ardent
democrat, and proud of having cast his first ballot for General George B
McClellan for president.  He is of German Irish descent, is a successful
farmer, a careful manager and a good observer. 

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