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Born 1888
From History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909)
HOWARD CLEVELAND GEBHART.
Howard Cleveland Gebhart is the manager of the Mound farm of ninety acres of rich and arable land located southeast of Miamisburg, on the Mound road. He was born on the old family homestead on the Alexanderville road, southeast of Miamisburg, his natal day being March 3, 1888. His parents are Arthur and Elizabeth (Leasure) Gebhart. The father was educated in Montgomery county and has been actively and successfully identified with agricultural and stock-raising interests throughout his entire business career, being now the owner of a valuable and well improved farm in this county. Unto him and his wife were born eight children, namely: Myrtle; Bessie; Howard C., of this review; Arthur; Richard; Edna; Clyde, deceased; and one who died in infancy.
Lloward Cleveland Gebhart acquired his education in the common schools of Miami township and since putting aside his text-books has devoted his time and energies to general farming pursuits. As above stated, he now operates a tract of land comprising ninety acres, known as the Mound farm, and in its cultivation is meeting with gratifying success, the well tilled fields annually yielding golden harvests in return for the care and labor which he bestow upon them. He likewise raises some stock and expects to take up that branch of business on an extensive scale in the near future. Though he has just attained his majority, he has already won a measure of prosperity in his undertakings that augurs well for the future, and he is well known and highly esteemed throughout the community as a most enterprising and progressive citizen.
On the 8th of January, 1908, Mr. Gebhart was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary H. King, a daughter of Nicholas D. and Mary Jane (Watson) King, of Kentucky. Her paternal grandparents were Abel and Mary (Dunn) King and the former was one of Kentucky’s early settlers, having made his way to that state from Virginia. Nicholas D. King, the father of Mrs. Gebhart, is a prominent and prosperous citizen and a veterinary surgeon by profession. Unto him and his wife were born twelve children, as follows: Samantha; John W., who is now deceased; Lida B.; William N.; Martha; Willis, who has also passed away; Elizabeth M.; Eli; James N.; Alexander; Mrs. Gebhart; and one who died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Gebhart now have one child, Truman C. They belong to the Reformed church, in the works of which they take an active and helpful interest. Mr. Gebhart fully realizes the benefits of travel and has taken a number of trips for educational purposes, as well as for the pleasure to be derived therefrom. He has a large circle of warm friends throughout the county in which he has resided from his birth to the present time, having ever displayed those sterling traits of character which everywhere command admiration and regard.
As printed in History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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