Otto N. Ebert
In his native city of Ironton, Lawrence County, Mr. Ebert is fully upholding the high prestige of the family name, both as a man of affairs and as a citizen ready at all times to give his cooperation in the furtherance of those things that contribute to the welfare of the community. He is president of the Ebert Brewing Company, one of the most substantial and important concerns of its kind in this section of the state, and of this responsible and exacting position he has been the incumbent since the death of his honored father, the late Leo Ebert, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this publication, so that at this juncture it is not necessary to enter further data concerning the family history.
Otto N. Ebert was born in Ironton on the 1st of September, 1870. and is the only son in a family of six children, so that upon him have devolved almost entirely the large and exacting responsibilities that so long enlisted the able attention of bis father. Mr. Ebert is indebted to the public schools of Ironton for his early educational discipline, and at the age of seventeen years he completed his studies in the high school and turned his attention to the practical affairs of life. He became identified with the operation of the extensive brewery founded by his father, and with the passing years he has familiarized himself thoroughly with all details of this line of industry and developed special ability as an executive. His father passed to eternal rest on the 22d of February, 1908, and the son was admirably fortified to become his successor in the presidency of the brewing company, an office in which he has maintained the enterprise at the high standard that has ever marked the same, and has endeavored to follow out the progressive civic policies and exemplify the high ideals which signally marked the career of his father. Mr. Ebert is a member of the Ironton Chamber of Commerce, is a democrat in his political adherency, is affiliated with the United Commercial Travelers and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he attends and supports the German Lutheran Church, in the faith of which he was reared. The brewery plant is owned by the family estate. His home is at the corner of Center and Seventh Streets, here being centered much social activity, with Mrs. Ebert as the popular chatelaine of the hospitable home.
On the 25th of August, 1892. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ebert to Miss Lena Sprenger. daughter of Frederick and Johanna Sprenger, of Ashland, Kentucky, and of this union were horn six children—Mathilda, Bertha M., Hilda P, Leo, Helen K. and Otto N., Jr. Mathilda and Leo are deceased.
From "A Standing History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio" by Eugene B. Willard, Daniel W. Williams, George O. Newman and Charles B. Taylor. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, 1916