Joseph R. Ebert

Joseph Ebert was employed by the Philadelphia and Reading railway for over 25 years, last working as freight agent in Philadelphia.

Joseph R. Ebert was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In young manhood he was a carpenter, and afterwards became an agent for the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company; He was station agent at various places. Joseph R. Ebert made his home in Norristown for many years, and about 1894 removed to Pottstown, where he died in 1897, aged fifty-eight years. His wife died in 1900, aged sixty-two years. In politics he was a Republican. The family were members of the Lutheran denomination. Margaret Wurts Ebert was also born in Montgomery county. Mr. and Mrs. Ebert had four children:

Walter Winfield, died in infancy; Ida May, died unmarried at the age of thirty-eight; Horace M.; Ella Blanche, a music teacher.

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