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Our Family History and Ancestry Bernethy-Eby-Scribner-Hord
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1821 -
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Father |
Andreas Eby, b. 13 Apr 1798, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania , d. 23 Sep 1854, Seneca County, Ohio (Age 56 years) |
Mother |
Susanna Vogt |
Married |
17 Sep 1818 |
Family ID |
F546988163 |
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Notes |
- 1880 Census Farmer, Montgomery, Kansas as Noah EBY
- Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest
By Joseph Geiting McCoy
......Messfs. Noah Eby & Co., private bankers at Coffeyville, Kansas, give close attention and liberal financial accommodation to the live-stock trade centering at that important point. They have never experienced serious trouble in loaning a large amount of capital at good rates, or the least difficulty in securing prompt payment. By a shrewd arrangement they manage to be posted on what herds of cattle leave Texas for their point, and the financial standing of the owners.
The Messrs. Eby's were large and successful live-stock ?
operators in northern and central Ohio, but on going to Kansas decided to enter the banking business as in it there was little competition and a broad and inviting field. They are well pleased with the chosen' vocation, as well as the point Selected. -They have contributed largely to Cofleyville's re.
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cent success as a cattle mart ; and after a full test are satisfied that banking with western drovers is both safe and very profitable. ,
At Wichita, Kansas, the First National of that place, was the first bank which extended accommodations to stock men. It entered the field and by liberal accommodations and shrewd management,
. was able to do an enormous and lucrative business with stock men, greatly aiding the point to build up and retain a large cattle trade. But it did not have the field to itself but one year. The second season The Savings Bank under able and ?obliging management was opened, and from the first had many
warm friends and patrons among the stock men. To the liberal policy pursued by Wichita's bankers, as much as to any other one source, is that point indebted for its wonderful success as a cattle market and shipping depot.......
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