From "History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens," by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer, 1902.

Typed by E. J. Heinemann.

p. 625

LOUIS NIEBERGALL, who is engaged in the meat business, and also 
in the manufacture of ice, in Wheeling, West Virginia, is a native of 
Ohio, and was born November 20, 1862, a son of Daniel Niebergall.
	The father of Louis was a native of Germany, and came to the 
United States when he was eighteen years old.  He was a weaver by 
trade, and located in Wheeling, where he was engaged in business for 
some time.  He now lives at Benwood, aged sixty-six years.  He married 
Catherine Schad, who is also a native of Germany, and they had the 
following children: Georgie, deceased; Charles; Louisa; Lena; Fred; 
Sophia; William; and Harry
	Louis Niebergall, the subject of this sketch, was reared by an 
uncle, whose name was George Schad.  He first attended the public 
schools of Wheeling, and later went to a night school.  He worked for 
his uncle for some time.  In 1896, Mr. Niebergall went into the butcher 
business at Benwood, and ran a shop for two years.  In 1898 he started 
in the same business at Forty-fifth and Eoff streets, where he still 
remains.  He is also engaged in manufacturing ice, having engaged in 
that business in 1894.  The plant is 150 feet in frontage, and 100 feet 
deep, with a capacity of 25 tons per day.  Mr. Niebergall employs 10 
men to assist him at this plant.  He is a progressive man in every 
sense of the word, and his success has been due entirely to his own 
efforts.  Mr. Niebergall may safely be called a self-made man.
	The subject of this sketch married Lizzie Niedermyer, who was 
born in Wheeling, May 18, 1866.  She is a daughter of Fred Niedermyer, 
who died in February,1895.  Mr. Niedermyer, who was a native of 
Germany, married Elizabeth Tice, also a native of Germany, and they had 
the following children: George; John; Lizzie; Minnie, deceased and 
Fred.  Mr. And Mrs. Niebergall have five children, namely:  Minnie; 
Leila; Arthur; and Fred.  Mr. Niebergall is a Republican.  He is a 
member of the German Evangelical Lutheran church.  His portrait 
accompanies this sketch.