Rev. James Gerry Eberhart, A.M. and Florence E. Little

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Husband Rev. James Gerry Eberhart, A.M. ¹

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           Born: 27 Jul 1856 - Shrewsbury, York Co, PA 1
     Christened: 1 Jan 1857 1
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         Father: Hon. David Christian Eberhart, D.S. (1826-Aft 1891) 2
         Mother: Mary Elizabeth Gerry (Abt 1835-1867) 3

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Wife Florence E. Little ⁴

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1 M James Gerry Eberhart ⁴

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2 M David C. Eberhart ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. James Gerry Eberhart, A.M.

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He attended the Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, Academy five terms of five months each. At 13 years of age he attended Lebanon Valley College one year. When 15 years of age he attended Cornell College, at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, one year, and in one year returned and stayed five years, graduating in 1878 with the degree of A. B. During the senior year he was victorious in three oratorical contests. First, the "Home Contest," where six students were chosen from the college and graded on thought, composition and delivery. This gave him the honor of representing Cornell College at the State Oratorical Contest, which met in November, 1877, at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. About a dozen colleges were represented, and, on a scale of thirty as being perfect, he was marked twenty-nine on all points, and pronounced the best. This gave him the honor of representing the state of Iowa in the Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Contest, held at St. Louis in 1878. The six state victors from the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio met there and he was awarded a gold medal, the next to the highest prize. The judges were Hon. Alphonso Taft, Cincinnati, Ohio; Bishop Thomas Bowman, D. D., St. Louis, Missouri, and Hon. Benjamin Harrison, of Indianapolis, Indiana, later President of the United States. After graduating he was principal of the Shrewsbury High School for a time, and then took a two years' course in Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, New Jersey. He then traveled two years under the Presiding Elder in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. Shortly after he moved to northern Illinois, and in two years was ordained a deacon and admitted into the Rock River Conference of the M. E. Church, where he labored several years, and then went as a missionary to the Territory of Arizona. While stationed at Prescott, Arizona, he was chosen Chaplain of the Legislative Assembly. In course, he received the degree of A. M., from Cornell College, and delivered the Master's Oration at the "commencement" of 1881.

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General Notes: Wife - Florence E. Little

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from Concord, Franklin Co, PA

1 Rev. Uriah Eberhart, History of the Eberharts (Chicago Lawn, IL: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers and Binders, 1891), Pg 119.

2 Rev. Uriah Eberhart, History of the Eberharts (Chicago Lawn, IL: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers and Binders, 1891), Pg 117.

3 Rev. Uriah Eberhart, History of the Eberharts (Chicago Lawn, IL: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers and Binders, 1891), Pg 118.

4 Rev. Uriah Eberhart, History of the Eberharts (Chicago Lawn, IL: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers and Binders, 1891), Pg 120.