George W Eaby b. 05 Feb 1840 Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania d. 27 Jun 1903 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

1840 - 1903 (63 years)

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Name	George W Eaby
Born	05 Feb 1840	Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Gender	Male
Died	27 Jun 1903	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Buried	Woodward Hill Cemetery Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Person ID	I7552969969	Eby/Aebi and Bernethy Family
Last Modified	17 Jan 2008

Father	Daniel Miller Eaby, b. 14 Aug 1809, Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 12 Sep 1893, Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Age 84 years)
Mother	Caroline Bear or Baehr, b. 09 Nov 1808, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 14 Apr 1869, Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Age 60 years)
Married	19 Nov 1835	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Family ID	F6917130005	Group Sheet

Family Rachel Alice Reese, b. 02 Dec 1839, Coatsville, Chester County, Pennsylvania , d. Aft 1910 (Age 71 years)

Children

	1. Alice Flora Eaby, b. 18 Oct 1865, Chester County, Pennsylvania , d. 1937, Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania (Age 71 years)
	2. Carl Reese Eaby, Sr, b. 04 Dec 1867, Sadsburyville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Last Modified 25 Apr 2007

Family ID F6917130017 Group Sheet

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	Born - 05 Feb 1840 - Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
	Died - 27 Jun 1903 - Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
	Buried - - Woodward Hill Cemetery Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Notes

Source: Biographical Annals of Lancaster Co., PA., 1903 by J. H. Beers & Co., page 459-460.
GEORGE W. EABY. One of the best-known figures in business, political and social circles in Lancaster, is George W. Eaby, who is engaged in the real-estate and insurance business, located at No. 51 East Grant street.
The ancestors of Mr. Eaby came to America from Switzerland, generations ago, and his grandfather, Jacob Eaby, was a well-known farmer in Leacock township, where he owned and farmed a very large tract of land, which, at his death was divided among his sons and daughters, forming a number of smaller farms. Daniel M. Eaby, the father of George W., owned and farmed a part of the original tract. Daniel M., married Miss Caroline Bair, a daughter of the late Joel Bair, a prosperous farmer of Leacock, and by a singular coincidence, there were five sons and daughters in each of these families.
The union of Daniel M. Eaby and Caroline Bair, resulted in the birth of seven children: Joel S., who is in the real estate and insurance business, in Lancaster; Harry B., who is in the service of the Government, in Wooster, O.; Daniel E., a grocer of Lancaster; Jacob M., a merchant at Paradise, in this county: Mary, the wife of William Rice, of Wooster, O.; and George W., but one of the family having passed out of life.
George W. Eaby was born on the old homestead, in Leacock township, Feb. 5, 1840, and was educated in the public schools of the district and at the Millersville Normal School, leaving the latter institution when twenty to become a school teacher. For the following eight years he taught in the public schools, with the exception of nine months of service as a member of the 122nd Regiment, P. V. I., during the Civil war, when he took part with his regiment in all its battles and skirmishes, which included Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg. Mr. Eaby also served with the "Emergency" men, when the Confederates invaded the State.
Soon after the close of the war, Mr. Eaby became clerk of the Lancaster county prison, serving two years, and then became a clerk in the Steinman hardware store, where he remained for four years. Later he engaged in the grocery business for a time, disposing of this to enter upon the duties of a position in the office of the clerk of the Quarter Sessions of Lancaster county, acting three years as Deputy under Dr. B. F. W. Urban, and three years as clerk in chief of the office, and the following three years as deputy under Capt. Abram Settley, who had been elected to the office at the expiration of Mr. Eaby's term. This completed nine years of service in one of the most important offices in the county, and his record was such, and his fidelity to the cause of the Republican party so well known and appreciated, that he was strongly urged by his friends for the office of alderman of the 2d ward, of Lancaster. In 1891, Mr. Eaby entered the real estate and insurance business and since that time has rendered signal service to the various companies he represents and has enjoyed a large patronage.
Mr. Eaby married Miss Rachel A. Reese, a daughter of the late James M. Reese, of Bethania, Salisbury township. Previous to marriage, Mrs Eaby was a teacher and she and her husband possess what is unusual, in one family, namely, two permanent teachers' certificates. Mrs. Eaby, who was one of the brightest of Lancaster county's teachers, is descended from two very old families; her mother was a Bentley, and her grandfather was a Baker, and it was from the papers testifying to the fame of Aaron Baker, in the Revolutionary war, that Mrs. Eaby became a Daughter of the Revolution, in which exclusive and admirable society, she has taken an active interest. She is five generations removed from her Revolutionary ancestors.
From the union of George W. Eaby and his wife two children have been born: C. Reese Eaby, Esq., a prominent member of the Lancaster bar; and Flora, the wife of Harry Cessna, Esq., a member of the Bedford county bar, a son of the late Hon John Cessna, who was, for so many years, president of the board of trustees of Franklin and Marshall College.
Mr. Eaby is a member of the Blue Lodge of Masons, and is also fraternally connected with the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Elks. The religious connection of the family is with Trinity Lutheran Church, where Mr. Eaby is recognized as in other relations, as an earnest, intelligent, generous and conscientious citizen.