Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-21
Went to Mercy Hospital at II O'clock
in the Forenoon and Passed
Away in the Af-
terno0n.
YEARS OF AGE.
Was a successful Practicing Physi-
clan in This City for
Many Years.

1He COHlluuulty was SIedIly
shocked Sunday night as the news
spread of the very sudden death Of
DR.. C. I. Eberle of Blairsburg, Of
heart failure, induced by hardening
of the arteries, at Mercy hospital in
this city. DR.. Eberle had been at
tending to his usual practice during
the week, having been called to this
city a week ago Sunday to attend
John Robinson, who at that time
sustained a stroke Of paralysis. Sun
day forenoon he was brought to
this city overland by several friends
from Blairsburg, and he visited the
Teed drug store, where he complained
of his heart, and expressed to friends
a feeling that he was not going to
recover from the illness which had
siezed him. His condition was not
thought to be dangerous. However,
he went to Mercy hospital about II
o'clock and passed away before 4
o'clock in the afternoon. His death
at this time is peculiarly sad, in that
his wife and children are in the west
at their former home in North Yak
ina, Washington, and knew nothing.
of his sudden illness.
z DR.. Eberle returned to this city
from North Yakima last fall, to
which place he had removed in 1909
with his family, feeling that a
change of occupation to out doors
would be beneficial to his health.
The family removed to a fruit ranch,
where the doctor worked very hard
the place; and he remark
ed upon his return here, that pro-
fessional man should never at mid
die age leave his profession and go
into active manual labor, for the
change was too abrupt and had not.
at least in his case, proved to be as
beneficial as he had hoped. His in
tention upon his return here had
been to resume his practice in Ham
ilton county and he took up his res
idence in Blairsburg. No suitable
home for his family could be found
and that occasioned the delay on
their part in returning here. He
had attempted to find a home in this
city short time ago, thinking they
might reside here until a house was
vacant in Blairsburg.
DR.. Eberle was born in Canada,
March -, 1852, and was one of a
family of thirteen children. His
father was a revolutionary soldier
and was himself a native of Penn
sylvania, removing to London, Can
ada, after his marriage. DR.. Eberle
received his early education in the
district schools of Canada, until
eighteen years of age, when he went
to Chatham, Canada. There ne
spent three months as a student in
the grammar school. He was after
ward for one year a student in the
Woodstock Literary Institute, then
he matriculated in the McGill Uni
versity at Montreal, where he spent
two years. Subsequently he was
graduated from the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor, with the
class of 1879, completing the course
of the medical department after he
had determined to make the prac-
tice of Incidence lis life work. He
came directly from there to Webster
City and opened up an Office. In
1892 he was graduated in the Oph-
thalmic College of Chicago, special
izing in the diseases Of the eye, ear
nose and throat.
In January, 1884, he was united
in marriage with Miss Hattie Barge
of this city, eldest daughter Of Prof.
and Mrs. B. F. Barge, former we'll
known residents of this place. and
to this union were born six children,
only two of whom survive. Two
died in infancy, Vera in 1894, and
Victor in 1902. The other two are
Walter, who is in the U. S. Navy,
and Miriam, eleven years of age, who