Eby, Henry W. (1873-1965)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1965 Mar 18 p. 9

Birth date: 1872 Mar 28

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FORMER GOSHEN DOCTOR DIES

Bluffton, Ohio.. — Funeral services for Dr. Henry W. Eby, 92, were held March 11 at the Basinger Funeral Home here. Rev. Jacob T. Friesen, pastor of the First Mennonite Church, officiated.

A native of this community, Dr. Eby specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat ailments. He practiced at Goshen, Ind. from the early 1900s to the late 1930s, and also at Elkhart and Indianapolis. His sister, Dr. Ida Eby, carried on the practice at Goshen for a number of years.

Dr. Eby died at Findlay, O., where he had resided at a nursing home the past seven years.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1965 Apr 1 p. 1,10

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Doctor Leaves $760,000 Estate to Bluffton College

Bluffton, Ohio. — Bluffton College is the beneficiary of a trust fund valued at over three quarters of a million dollars, the largest single gift in the history of the school, according to an announcement made by Dr. L. L. Ramseyer, president of the college, at the booster banquet last Friday evening.

The late Dr. Henry W. Eby was the benefactor who established the perpetual trust, the income from which will go to Bluffton College in quarterly installments. Two-thirds is to be used for the extension, care and maintenance of the Department of Liberal Arts and the remaining one-third for the extension, care and maintenance of the Department of Fine Arts.

The American Fletcher National Bank and Trust company of Indianapolis is executor of Dr. Eby's estate. Bluffton College is to be the sole recipient of the income which amounted to approximately $20,000 from bond interest and stock dividends in 1964. The exact present worth of the fund was not established but it was reported to have been approximately $776,000 when last evaluated.

Dr. Eby, who died on March 9 at the age of 92, had been a resident of the Winebrenner Haven in Findlay for the last four years. He was born March 28, 1872, in Wayne County, Ohio, and moved to Allen County as a boy of 15, living in the rural area near Pandora,. He attended school there and and at Ohio Northern University. He taught school near Pandora for two years before attending medical school at Pulte Medical College in Cincinnati where he graduated in 1897. He then practised [sic] general medicine and surgery at Elida for six years.

From 1903-05 he did post graduate study in the universities of Europe, and again in 1911-12 he spent five months in the universities at Vienna, Zurich and Paris. He became a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat ailments and practised [sic] his specialty at Goshen, Ind. from the early 1900s to the late 1930s and also at Elkhart and Indianapolis. He was given a testimonial dinner in Indianapolis in recognition of his long medical practise [sic] which totalled [sic]about 50 years.

He was married to Charlotte Thut at Goshen on Sept. 6, 1906. They had no children, but they traveled extensively after his retirement until she died on Oct. 23, 1950.

Of his immediate family only one brother, Harvey L. Eby, a retired university professor in Los Angles, survives along with numerous nieces and nephews. A sister, Dr. Ida L. Eby, took over his medical practise [sic] in Goshen for a number of years. Other brothers and sisters included the late Sam L. Eby, a university professor in Cincinnati; Emma, a nurse whose husband, Dr. C. O. Hershey, was also a medical doctor in Chicago; Clara, wife of Rev. Menno S. Steiner, a Mennonite evangelist in Chicago and Ohio; and Amanda, wife of Rev. A. H. Leaman, a Mennonite minister in Chicago. Doctors and college professors are also numbered among the nieces and nephews in this talented family.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1965 April 8 p. 3

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LARGE BEQUEST — Dr. Henry W. Eby, who died March 9 at a Findlay, Ohio rest home, left his entire estate valued at about $760,000 to Bluffton College. The will provides for establishment of a trust fund, income from which will go to the Liberal Arts and Fine Arts departments of the college. An eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, Dr. Obey practiced for many years at Goshen, Ind.

The Mennonite obituary: 1965 Apr 27 p. 286