Edward and Anne Ebner

EBNER AND HINGTGEN

Posted By: Gene Ebner (email)
Date: 3/31/2005 at 22:51:19

EDWARD EBNER was a shoemaker and had a saloon and hotel in Spring Brook. Edward was born in Eitzwiel, Germany on November 3, 1843. Edward came to America in 1867 and made his way up the Mississippi and arrived in Jackson County by 1869. He worked as a shoemaker in the store owned by Nicholas Kilbourg. When Kilbourg sold his business and went to Alton Iowa in 1872 , Edward bought an acre of land on the S.W. Corner of Spring Brook's main intersection from Frank Strouch. Edward married Anne Hingtgen in 1872. She was the daughter of John Hingtgen and Anna Maria Reuter from section 1 in Richland Township. Edward and Anne started a saloon and Hotel business on their new property. He also continued his shoe business with the help of Casper Winter another shoemaker. They had four sons, Frank (1873), Edward Theodore (1874), Theodore (1875) amd John Edward (1879). Edward Theodore died in 1877 and is buried in St. P&P cemetery' Spring Brook. Edward and Anne sold the hotel and saloon in 1887 and moved to Hartley, Iowa. They bought a saloon and a hotel in Hartley. Edward died from complications of a severe stroke in 1889.

This information came from "The History of Jackson County, 1879" page 766, census records, property deeds, church records, and the oral history of the Ebner family.