Sacramento County
Biographies
FRANK XAVER
EBNER
F. X. EBNER, of the firm of Ebner Bros., wholesale liquor dealers, ranks among the most active business men of Sacramento. He is a native of Baden, Germany, born October 28, 1829. His father, Charles Ebner, was a lumber dealer and butcher, also carrying on general mercantile business. His mother’s maiden name was Schmidt. He was reared at his native place (Waldshut-bei-Freiburg), where he spent the years between the ages of six and fourteen attending the Government schools, and afterward at a business institute. He was drafted into the army in 1849, and served through the Revolution in an artillery regiment. He went to Switzerland after leaving the army, and from there came to America, sailing from Havre to New York. He proceeded to Chicago, thence to St. Louis, and a year later to New Orleans, where he followed various pursuits until 1853. About the 5th of March of that year he left New Orleans and came to California by streamer via Panama, landing at San Francisco about the 1st of April. He came to Sacramento and obtained employment on the first water works of the city, then building. The following year he and his brother Charles assumed charge of the Sierra Nevada Hotel, on Ninth and J streets. In 1857 they built the Ebner House, and ran it about six years, since which time they have given their principal attention to their extensive business, which extends throughout northern California and Nevada. Mr. Ebner was one of the organizers of the Sacramento Hussars, and was Captain when the company entered the State militia during the Rebellion, serving eight years in that capacity. He is one of the long-time members of the Sacramento Turn-Verein. Mr. Ebner is an active and enterprising man, and has hosts of friends in Sacramento and throughout the country where he is known.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 744. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.