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Rites Scheduled Monday for Local Lawyer, Farmer

02 Tuesday Oct 2012

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Frederick Augustus Eberlein, pioneer Shawano county fur farmer, died at Shawano at 2:15 o’clock Friday afternoon after a illness of one and one-half years. He was 81.

Mr. Eberlein was born in the town of Herman in Shawano county on March 19, 1875, the son of Frederick and Catherine Eberlein. He lived in the Shawano area all his life and attended schools in Shawano and received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin.

IN NOVEMBER 1900, he was married to the former Kitty King who passed away in 1903. He was married to Alwina Duecker on April 20, 1910, and they spent eight winters in Arizona for reasons of Mr. Eberlein’s health.

Active in civic affairs,  Mr. Eberlein was District Attorney in Shawano county for four years and a member of the Masonic lodge and the Rotary club. A lawyer by profession, he was the senior member of the Eberlein and Eberlein law firm  from 1904 to 1917 and he also served on the Shawano County Board for several years. He practiced with his brother, the late Michael G. Eberlein, who was circuit judge at the time of his death.

Ill health forced him to discontinue the practice of law when doctors advised him to be out of doors. He then (1917) gave up the legal profession for fur farming and cattle raising. He also was interested in potato farming.

He was very active in the Wisconsin Fur Breeders Association, serving as its secretary for many years. He was an optimist by nature and did not allow his physical handicaps to seriously curb him in his work or dim his hopeful outlook on life.

By a strange coincidence, Frederick A. Eberlein was succeeded in the office of district attorney by a nephew 50 years to the date that the elder Eberlein took the office himself.  The nephew is the present district attorney, Frederic C. Eberlein. F. A. Eberlein took over the office January 5. 1903, and “Fritz” assumed similar duties Jan. 5, 1953.

Survivors include his wife and a son by his first marriage, Frederic Eastman Eberlein, a fur farmer at Shawano R. 1. Also surviving are two grandchildren and a brother, Charles Eberlein of Shawano.

FUNERAL SERVICES will be held 2 p.m. Monday at the Schweers Funeral Home in Shawano with the Rev. W. E. Williamson officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery in Shawano. Masonic rites will be held at graveside.

Friends may call at the Schweers Funeral Home from this evening until the time of the service.

Members of Lodge 170 F and A.M. are asked to meet at the Masonic Temple at 1:30 p.m. Monday to prepare for participation in the rites for Mr. Eberlein.

Unidentified clipping, in the Eberlein folder at the Shawano Heritage Center.

Descendant report: Michael Gustave Eberlein and Lora Elizabeth Rather

01 Monday Oct 2012

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MICHAEL GUSTAVE EBERLEIN was born on 31 July 1880 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 23 September 1952 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He married Lora Elizabeth Rather, daughter of Frank Alfred Rather and Bertha Auguste Schmidt on 31 July 1906 in New Holstein, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA. She was born on 16 February 1884 in Calumetville, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA. She died on 29 June 1960 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA.

Michael Gustave Eberlein and Lora Elizabeth Rather had the following children:

i.    ROBERT WILLIAM EBERLEIN was born on 18 March 1908 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 10 October 1918 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA.

ii.    MARGARET RUTH EBERLEIN was born on 27 June 1910 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. She died on 19 October 1962 in Oshkosh, Winnebago, Wisconsin, USA. She married Lester Gilbert Volkman, son of John Martin Volkman and Emilie Sophie Kohls on 04 April 1943in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was born on 04 January 1912 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 24 July 1993 in Brevard, Florida, United States.

iii.    MICHAEL GEORGE EBERLEIN was born on 24 September 1914 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 14 April 2002 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He married Joanne Sherer Litts, daughter of Edward Litts and Clara Belle Sherer on 21 February 1945 in Janesville, Rock, Wisconsin, USA. She was born on 19 January 1917 in USA. She died on 09 September 2010 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin.

iv.    WILLIAM FREDERICK EBERLEIN was born on 25 June 1917 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 13 June 1986 in Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA. He married (1) MARY BERNARDA BARRY, daughter of John Patrick Barry and Eleanor Agnes Graef on 29 May 1943 in Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, USA. She was born on 30 June 1917 in Racine, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. She died in December 1960 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA (?). He married (2) PATRICIA BARBARA RAMSAY JAMES, daughter of William Stubbs James and Rose Ramsay on 23 June 1956 in Birmingham, Oakland, Michigan, USA. She was born on 15 July 1923 in Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA. She died on 11 August 1998 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA.

v.    FREDERIC CHARLES EBERLEIN was born on 25 January 1919 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 24 July 2010 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He married Mary Elizabeth Zimmer, daughter of Leo M. Zimmer and Martha Payne on 17 March 1945 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. She was born on 24 November 1918 in Cincinnati, Clermont, Ohio, USA. She died on 19 January 2011 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA.

vi.    WALTER RATHER EBERLEIN was born on 29 August 1921 in Shawano, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 05 June 2003 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, USA.

Anecdote about the Eberleins in Shawano

30 Sunday Sep 2012

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The following quotation is from two photocopied pages of a manuscript in my Uncle Fritz’s genealogical files:

“The Eberlein house across the street was open house for all the neighborhood kids. There was always plenty of fresh milk from their farm along with graham crackers for snacks. At mealtime, though, everybody out.

Laura [sic] Eberlein was a gracious, uncomplaining matriarch who held the entire Eberlein ensemble together — Mike senior, a daughter, and four sons.

Wally Eberlein, the youngest, and I were close friends as we grew up together. He was a first rate intellectual and was to become valedictorian of his 1939 high school graduating class. Wally’s next older brother, Fritz, and I were also to become good friends in our teen years.

Mike Eberlein, a big, gruff, successful, small town lawyer occasionally picked me up for a hug and a whiskery kiss on his way to work and the barbershop for his regular morning shave.

Like all little kids, I, too, was irresistibly huggable.”

Family at Shawano Lake, 1952

30 Sunday Sep 2012

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Family at Shawano Lake, 1952

Top row: Fritz Eberlein; Bill Eberlein; Michael G Eberlein, Jr.; Marge Eberlein Volkman
Middle row: Wally Eberlein; Mike Eberlein, Sr.; Lora Rather Eberlein
Bottom row: Kathy Eberlein; Mike Eberlein; Pat Eberlein; John Volkman; Bob Eberlein