Daniel Ebersole

As printed in 1902

PROFESSOR DANIEL EBERSOLE, Professor Daniel Ebersole has since 1894 been connected with educational work in Springfield, and since September, 1900, has been the principal of the Southern school.

He was born in Bethel township, Clark county, September 25, 1851, and is a son of Peter Ebersole, whose birth occurred in the same township in 1824. The Ebersoles came to this country from Holland and settled in Pennsylvania. When the colonies could no longer endure the joke of British oppression and resolved to sever all allegiance to the British crown Jacob Ebersole, a great-grandfather, joined the colonial army and was a member of a Pennsylvania battery, while his brother, Christian Ebersole, served as a member of Washington’s staff. Another great-grandfather of our subject, John Keller, likewise became a pioneer settler of Pennsylvania and was a member of the Pennsylvania Infantry in the war of the Revolution. He was buried in Bethel township, while Jacob Ebersole was laid to rest in Pike township, Clark county. Abram Ebersole, a son of the great-grandfather settled on Mill creek, near Cincinnati. John, another son, settled in Pike township, this county, and Polly, their sister, was one of the pioneer teachers of this county. Jacob Ebersole, the grandfather of our subject, was born near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and when a young man went to Virginia, but on account of the slavery system of that state he removed to Ohio about 1809 and built a cabin in Springfield township, where Peter Sintz formerly resided. He was a well educated man for his day, and was one of the first school teachers of this county. He likewise engaged in preaching the gospel as a minister of the Dunkard faith. Purchasing land from the government he began its development and for many years carried on farming. He died at the age of seventy years, while his wife, who bore the maiden name of Salome Keller, lived to be eighty-one years of age. She came to this county from Virginia, having been married there. They had four sons and five daughters, of whom two are yet living: Joel, of German township, who is now eighty-one years of age; and John, who resides upon a part of the original homestead in Bethel township, at the age of seventy-seven.

Peter Ebersole, the father of our subject, was born upon his father’s farm, acquired his education in the district schools near his: home and was early trained to habits of industry and economy upon the old homestead. Ele Hannah Frantz, who was born in Bethel township in 1828. She came of German ancestry, the line being traced to Michael Frantz, who, on leaving the fatherland, in 1727, became a resident of Pennsylvania. Daniel Frantz, the great-grandfather of our subject, was a pioneer settler of Bethel township and a representative agriculturist there. The ancestors of the Keller, the Frantz and the Ebersole families were all early settlers of Pennsylvania and were of pure German and Holland extraction Peter Ebersole and Hannah Frantz were married in Bethel township in March, 1849 and there began their domestic life on the farm which was. the Lirthplace of the father of our subject, and on which he died in the year 1900. His widow still survives him and is yet living in Bethel township., Unto them were born nine children, four sons and four daughters who are yet living, and one son that died at ihe age of three years. Those who still survive are: Phoebe, the wife of Jacob Snell, of Indiana; Daniel, of this review; Salome, the wife of J. A. Keplinger, of German township; Sophia, the wife of Marion Garst, of German township; John P., a resident farmer of North Dakota; Eliza, the wife of Ira Garst, of Iowa; Jacob S., a Baptist married

As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.