Ezra S. Bamberger (1833-1925)

BAMBERGER, TALBOTT, LONES, TAYLOR, WEAVER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/16/2018 at 22:13:30

From Nevada Evening Journal April 15, 1925 (page 1)

AGED PIONEER CALLED BY DEATH FUNERAL THURSDAY

HAD BEEN RESIDENT OF NEVADA FOR OVER 60 YEARS.--LONG IN BUSINESS.

E. S. Bamberger, 91, pioneer resident of Nevada and for many years engaged in the merchantile trade here, who died a this home on Avenue H and Eighth street Tuesday forenoon at 11 o'clock will be buried Thursday afternoon, following services which will be conducted from the Methodist church at half after two o'clock, by his pastor, Rev. Jackson Giddens.

Mr. Bamberger, a native of Lunbandon county, Penn., where he was born November 15, 1833, has been a resident of Nevada since early in 1864. He had enjoyed the very best of health until a breakdown came less than a year ago since which time he had been failing and he had been confined to his bed since January.

Mr. Bamberger was a wonderful character and one who had always enjoyed health and strength. He had never been sick since a severe attack in his boyhood days and when he was close to 83 years of age continued his activities occasionally and did work at his trade, that of a tinner and metal worker.

Asked a few months ago, as to what he ascribed his unusual health, vigor and longlivity to, he said "regular habits of living, industry, total abstinance from both liquor and tobacco, tea or coffee and a happy and contented hearthstone, where he laid aside business cares for the eventide."

Ezra A. Bamberger was born in Labandon county, Penn., November 16, 1833, his ancestors having come to this country from their birthplace on the Rhine in 1772, stopping at Lancaster county, Penn., before Penn made his treaty with the Indians. Of the old Bamberger clan, there are still hundreds living back in Pennsylvania and Mr. Bamberger kept in direct touch with many of them during his more active days.

He lived in Pennsylvania as a young man, but later came out to Wisconsin where he worked his trade as a tinsmith. After a short time there he continued his journey westward and stopped at Cedar Rapids, thence onward along the trail of the Northwestern, until he came to the terminus at Colo. He preceded the road on into Nevada, arriving here in 1864, and this had been his home continually, with the exception of a few months spent at Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Shortly after coming to Nevada Mr. Bamberger was followed by his parents, Samuel Bamberger and wife, his sister, Mary, and brother, Reuben. The parents and the only brother passed away many years ago.

After Mr. Bamberger had lived in Nevada for a few years, employed by T. E. Alderman, the pioneer merchant of Nevada, he associated himself with L. E. White and they conducted a hardware store here under the firm name of White and Bamberger, until fourteen years ago, when they disposed of their business and he has since lived a retired life.

He was untied in marriage September 19, 1869, to Miss Nancy Talbott, and she, with his sister, Mary, who had always made her home with them, as well as two sisters, Mrs. Annie Lones of Elkton, Ohio, and Mrs. Caroline Taylor of Willows, Calif., a niece Mrs. Inez Weaver of Nebraska, who for some years made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Bamberger, as well as other more distant relatives, are left, with wide circle of friends to mourn his passing.

He was raised in the Masonic lodge in Wisconsin in 1857 and became a member of the Methodist church in 1868. Mrs. Bamberger has been a member of the same church since her early girlhood.

Of later years their interest has been centered in their home, their church and their flower gardens and there was a no more happy nor contented family in the county than Ezra S. Bamberger, his wife, Nancy, and his sister, Mary, in their comfortable home corner Eighth and Avenue H.

Mr. Bamberger, a man quiet and unassuming, was held in the highest of esteem by all who knew him either in business or social way. Honest, Frugal and of the highest integrity, he led an exemplary home and Christian life and the Bamberger household was long one of bright spots of the city.