Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-03-28
Eberhardt & Gray's Marble Works.

Mr.. Jacob Eberhardt has been con-
stantly in the marble business since
1913, in which year, then mere lad
he went to Wooster from near New
Philadelphia, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio,
rich as he says in health, but not PEN
ny in his purse. He was under the en-
ploy of Mr.. d. A. Griffin, formerly OF
Boston, who in 1913, established the first
Marble Works in Wooster. Before Mr..
Griffin's advent as marble worker
there had been considerable business in
making grave stones and monuments by
the Brothers Joseph & Grif. w. Fox.
These gentlemen in their day manufac-
tured many fine monuments out of a
free stone quarried ut Jeromeville, Ash
land county.
Mr.. Griffin carried on the marble
business there until the summer of 1851,
when Mr.. Jacob Eberhardt, who had
been his apprentice, journeyman and
foreman, for seven years, bought out
the business for himself, which, with
constantly increasing custom and sue
cess, he carried on until 1860, in which
year he took into copartnership Mr.. L.
). Gray, a well known business man,
whose many friends, for years, are too
numerous to mention.
The new firm prospered, and increas-
ee to such an extent that from time to
time they were necessarily compelled
to enlarge their buildings and give
greater capacity for constant demands
tor their monuments.
At length, to be up with the times,
Mr.. Eberhardt in the spring of last
year QS7D commenced erecting an ex-
tensive brick and stone building on the
southeast corner of South and Buckeye
streets. 1t is now finished, and as a
business edifice is an ornament to Woos-
ter, one of the best of which that city
can boast, as q substantial, and orna-
mental Duilding-beautifu in architec-
ture, massive in structure, and in all
respects worthy of the enterprise of its
owner.
The sale room is &C feet long by q
wide and fifteen feet story, and is most
splendidly finished with natural ash
and walnut wood work in richest style,
and the walls and ceiling beautifully
frescoed in colors of variegated paint
ing. Oyer the sale-room is fine pub
lie hall of the same size, also finely
Ulteu up, anu Cilltu LDtIlitTuJ > -hdT-
BILE Hail." The sale room contains
many specimens of all sizes of head
stones and monuments, the superiority
of which is shown by the rare designs,
the purity of the marble and the high
finish. Stone Lions lie couchant in the
show windows beside marble urns and
rigid lambs.
The general work shop is wing run
ming South "A feet, 80 feet wide, with
ceiling 10 feet high. Asa workshop for
good ventilation, light, convenience, it
has no superior i'll that part of Ohio.
Eastern marble men who have been on
visits there even 60 so far as to assert
that this marble shop in Wooster has no
superior in any city in the States.
Messrs. Eberhardt & Gray keep con-
stantly OIL hand large quantity OF
marble, and fill orders very promptly.
They are also prepared to fill orders for
all kinds of granite monuments. They
will in Il short time erect steam en-
gine for the purpose of saving and cut
ting marble.
In closing, We only have to say that
Mr.. Eberhardt is certainly self-made
man-has worked hard from childhood
until now, nearly middle age, but does
not rest from his laboas. His new
building shows his industry. 1t cost
him $4,000 to build it, money he made
by hard-handed labor. Wooster may
well be proud OF Eberhardt & Gray's
Marble Works.