Past and present of Washtenaw County, Michigan . the party, when he joinedthe ranks of the new republican party, his storebeing a great meeting place for the leading poli-ticians of his day. Fie was deeply interested inall political questions having bearing upon thestate and national welfare as well as local inter-ests, and various offices of trust and responsibilitywere conferred upon him. He was one of thepresidential electors of ?(richiL;an in 18(4, supp-irt-ing Abraham Lincoln, and at one time was ma\orof .n .\rbor. He greatly opposed misrule innumici|)al aftairs and gave to the city a val
Past and present of Washtenaw County, Michigan . the party, when he joinedthe ranks of the new republican party, his storebeing a great meeting place for the leading poli-ticians of his day. Fie was deeply interested inall political questions having bearing upon thestate and national welfare as well as local inter-ests, and various offices of trust and responsibilitywere conferred upon him. He was one of thepresidential electors of ?(richiL;an in 18(4, supp-irt-ing Abraham Lincoln, and at one time was ma\orof .n .\rbor. He greatly opposed misrule innumici|)al aftairs and gave to the city a valuableadministration characterized by the same dili-gence and practical methods that marked the con-trol of his private business interests. He was oneif the fmmders and earnest members of the church and was most highly esteemed]i\ all who knew him. Eberbach was married t<. .Miss Mar-January. 182T. and when a niaiden of twelve sum-mers came to .Vmerica with her parents. is still survived hv his widow, who. CHRISTIAX E1,ERBACH. PAST AND PRESENT OF WASHTENAW COUNTY 4^5 lives at the old homestead at the corner of Pack-ard and Wells streets. Eiijiit children were bornof their marriage, of whom hve are yet living:Ottmar; Edward: Mary, the wife of Dr. of St. Catharines, Ontario. Canada; luir-nest; and Clara. Ottmar Eberbach, beginning his e<hic;iti(in inthe public schools, continued his studies thniughsuccessive grades until he had become a high-school student. In the spring of 1862 he went toEurope, where he remained for three and a half)-ears, durini.;- which time lie was a student in apolytechnic school at Stuttgart and in auniversity at Tuebingen, Gernian\. where he re-ceived his pharmaceutical en. In ilie fallof 1865 he returned to Ann Arlior and enteredhis fathers store, working as a salesman until1874, when he was admitted to a ])artnership. Therelation was maintained until about six monthsprior to the fathers death, when
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