FREDERICK A. EBEL

       Frederick A. Ebel is one of the quiet and unassuming, yet thoroughly trustworthy, residents of Sacramento, his time and energies being devoted to business without thought of winning fame or notoriety in political lines.  It is a noticeable fact that different industries and occupations exert a wide and varying influence upon their followers, and Mr. Ebel gives his attention to a business which develops in man all that is best and noblest.  He is a landscape gardener and the proprietor of the well known Park Nursery, which is located at the corner of Tenth and P streets, and his close association with nature has given him an appreciation of its beauties and its possibilities known to but few.

       Frederick August Ebel was a native of Hamburg, Germany, born April 30, 1845.  His parents, Fritz and Christina Ebel, were both of German birth and are now deceased, the father having passed away in 1865 and the mother in 1870.  He was a gardener by occupation, and to that calling our subject was reared.  He obtained his education in the schools of his native land and there resided until 1868, when he came to America, locating in Sacramento.  Here he has made his home for more than thirty years.  For six years after his arrival in the capital city he was in the employ of E.B. Crocker, and later was engaged as a gardener on the capital grounds.  About 1874 he began business on his own account, at his present location, and through cultivation and improvement he has made the Park Nursery a garden of great beauty, unexcelled by any in northern California. He carries a large and complete line of both native and tropical plants of all kinds, and has studied so closely the needs of plant life that in his work he produces splendid results, both as to the coloring, planting and the hardiness of the plants he cultivates.  He not only supplies a large local trade but also fills orders from Nevada, and his shipments have been made as far east as Utah.

       On the 14th of February, 1874, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Ebel and Miss Dora Stehr, a lady of German birth who came to America in 1870.  They now have three children--Mark H., Lucy D., and August J.  Mr. Ebel is unswerving in his advocacy of Republican principles, and socially he affiliates with the Order of Elks, the Ancient Order of Workmen, the Grangers and the German Red Men of Sacramento.  He has never sought public notice in any way, but has always attended closely to his own affairs, quiet in manner and modest in demeanor.  Thus he has gained many friends, winning the respect and good will of all who know him.