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Subject: [MNPope] Dr. Eberlein - OBIT
Date: 2 May 2002 11:14:30 -0600

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First, I want to thank the Pope County, MN, USA Historical society. I sent them an e-mail asking if they had any information about Dr. Eberlein. They e-mailed back and said, yes, they had an obit on him, his wife, and a funeral card for thier daughter. They said they'd make copies & mail them to me & if I could afford it, could I maybe send them $3 in research fees & maybe a little extra for copies and postage. I sent them $10 & boy, did I get my money's worth!!! They sent me many pages of copies of newspaper articles & bios, and pictures!!!! Thanks Pope County Historical Society, you are the best!!!!!!!! I'll get all the info posted to this board as soon as I can!
Skip
Brainerd, MN, USA

Pope County Tribune
July 30, 1964

Doc Eb, Physician For 63 Years, Dies

Dr. E. A. Eberlin, who came to Glenwood to practice medicine in 1901 when calls were made in a horse and buggy, and practiced continuously in this city for more than 63 years, died at 11 p.m. Saturday at the Glenwood Community hospital. He was 86.

Dr. Eberlin or 'Doc Eb' as he was affectionately known, suffered a heart attack at his home at 320 East Chestnut street Tuesday, July 21, and was admitted to the hospital that same day. He died five days later.

Doc Eb made good a vow of many years standing. He said then he would never retire from the practice of medicine, and he never did, being active in his chosen field until five days before he died.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Hoplin Funeral home in Glenwood with the Rev. Sylvester Kleinschmidt, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic church, officiating. Burial was to the Glenwood cemetery.

Casket bearers were Dr. Paul A. Swedenburg, Dr. James G. Gilman, Dr. Don Kroshus, A. E. Kvam, George R. Teeson and David Ganfield, while honorary bearers were members of the medical staff of the Glenwood hospital, officers and members of the West Central Minnesota Medical Society, which he served as president at one time, Dr. W. C. Ryberg, Dr. O. J. Campbell, Harry Setter and J. R. (Jack) Hite, his golfing and fishing companion of many years.

Edward A. Eberlin was born in blue Earth, Minn., Nov. 22, 1877, and graduated from high school there. After graduation, he worked in a drug store for a year before he entered the University of Minnesota, graduation from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine in 1901, and prior to his death was the only member of his class still living.

After six months of practice in Appleton, Minn., he hung out his shingle in Glenwood June 6, 1901, and has practiced in this community ever since.

Dr. Eberlin always practiced alone in Glenwood, altho he and the late Dr. Jr. R. Elsey owned and operated the old Glenwood hospital (the old Assembly Nursing Home on East Minnesota avenue) from 1916 until the present hospital was constructed in 1940.

In his 63 years of practice here, Doc Eb delivered more than 3,000 babies. He used a horse and buggy to make his calls until 1910 when he purchased his first automobile, a Mitchell.

He recalled on the anniversary of his 60th year in practice that he spent as much as 16 hours on one house call, 15 1/2 hours of that time spent in driving to and from the patient's farm home in a howling blizzard.

Doc Eb remembered with sadness the influenza epidemic of 1918, which struck Glenwood, and where he signed an average of three death certificates a week.

It was while he was practicing in Glenwood that he met Nellie McLachlan, who was teaching school in Glenwood at the time. They were married in Sept., 1907, and have lived in the same house at 320 East Chestnut street ever since their marriage.

An avid golfer and sprotsman, he was one of the original founders of the Minnewaska golf club and played golf almost up until the time he suffered the heart attack.

Surviving him are his wife, Nellie; one daughter, Mrs. Tom (Muriel) Davis of Willmar; one granddaughter, Mrs. B. R. Ganfield, Chicago, Ill.; and one great-grandchild.

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