Sacramento County
Biographies
MARK HOPKINS EBEL
MARK HOPKINS EBEL--A wide-awake, progressive florist whose combined experience and artistic taste have afforded him an enviable success and prosperity, is Mark Hopkins Ebel, widely known throughout and even beyond Sacramento County. He was born in the capital city on November 10, 1874, the son of F. A. and Doris (Stehr) Ebel, the father a pioneer who came to California in the early sixties and married into one of the old Sacramento families. Mr. Ebel died in 1920, esteemed by all who knew him; but Mrs. Ebel is still living, the center of a circle of devoted friends.
Mark Hopkins Ebel went to the ordinary public schools, and rather young joined Messrs. C. B. Strong & Company, and when they failed, he took over the floral department. His father had been a florist for fifty years before him, and he thus came to acquire through his father much of the experience now so valuable to him. He grows practically all of his cut flowers, and in this respect has an advantage over some competitors. He is deeply interested in his enterprise, and at his store at 916 K Street carries a complete line of all kinds cut flowers and plants. He is a life member of American Florists' and Ornamental Horticulturist, and of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery. Mr. Ebel is an Elk, and also a Forester; and he belongs to Sacramento Parlor No. 3, Native Sons of the Golden West, being pardonably proud of his association with the Golden State. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Rotary Club.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 714. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.