John Eby

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Husband John Eby ¹

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         Father: Christian Eby (      -1807) 2
         Mother: Catharine Bricker (      -Aft 1807) 2

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1 F Catharine Eby ³

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         Spouse: John Hostetter (      -      ) 3

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2 M Jonas Eby ^{4 5}

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         Spouse: Fanny Nissley (1798-1839) 5 6

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3 F Mary Eby ³

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         Spouse: Jacob Yundt (      -      ) 3

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4 F Rebecca Eby ³

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         Spouse: John Bomberger (      -      ) 3

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5 M Elias Eby ³

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           Born: Abt 1805
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6 F Elizabeth Eby ⁷

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         Spouse: Samuel Risser (      -      ) 7

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7 M Levi Eby ⁷

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8 F Anna Eby ⁷

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         Spouse: Rev. Samuel Hershey (      -      ) 7

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General Notes: Husband - John Eby

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He lived at the mill, adjoining the old family place, a miller and a farmer by occupation. He dealt extensively in produce, which he had transported to Newport and Philadelphia, keeping a team of his own for that purpose, and also employing teams of his neighbors when they could be spared from the farms.
He was a promoter of improvements. In the day of turnpikes he served as a director; had roads laid out: one to open communication between the town of Manheim and the Ephrata turnpike, at Durlach, and one from his place to Brickerville, besides others. The first school-house in the neighborhood was built on his farm, at his own private expense, where the youth of the neighborhood were educated by teachers procured by him.
It was mostly through his influence that the Mennonites of Lancaster County purchased a large tract of land in Canada, to assist their distressed brethren in that part of the world, and which subsequently became the home of many of their descendants.

1 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 178.

2 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 177.

3 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 182.

4 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 182, 425.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 136.

6 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 425.

7 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 183.