OHIO COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA 
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Tina Hursh 
frog158@juno.com
September 29, 2000
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume 111
Pg. 364 & 365


Carl H. Eberts has been actively associated with the Bank of Warwood from the 
time of its inception, and is now its efficient and popular cashier.  Special 
interests at Warwood, a village that is now a part of the City of Wheeling, by 
reason of the fact the old family homestead farm was partially included in the 
site of the town at the time it was founded.  He was born on the site of 
Warwood, the present title of which was given when around the plant of the 
Warood Tool Company, established at this point, a village began to develop, the 
same later being made an integral part of wheeling.  Here Mr. Eberts was born 
December 18, 1888, a son of George S. and Mary Weiske Eberts, the latter of 
whom likewise was born in the Warwood locality, her father, Herman Weiske, 
having here died when she was a child.

George S. Ebers was a child when his parents, Jacob and Caroline Eberts, 
established their home on a farm a part of which is now included in Warwood, ad 
on this old homestead the parents passed the remainder of their lives, the farm 
eventually passing into the possession of George S., who later became prominent 
in securing the right of way for the street railway through this section and 
who finally sold the farm to the Loveland investment Company, in which he 
became a director.  In this connection he aided in the platting of his former 
farm (seventy-two acres) into town lots, and he became one of the vital and 
progressive men of the new town.  He was one of the organizers and 
incorporators of the Bank of Warwood in 1911, and continued a director of the 
same until his death, July 20, 1921.  Mr. Eberts was a stockholder in Wheeling 
Wall Plaster Company and had active management of its manufacturing plant at 
Warwood.  In 1918 he became manager of the Glenova Coal Company, with which he 
continued this connected until his death.  Under his direction the mines of the 
company were opened, and the enterprise has been one of importance in connection
with the industrial advancement of Warwood.  The Glenova Coal Company has sixty 
acres of coal land, and the output of the mines is sold to local factories and 
homes.  The property and business are controlled by the family of Mr. Eberts.  
Mr. Eberts served twenty-five years as a member of the School Board of his 
district, which comprised all of the Richland District and included Warwood, 
where was established the district high school.  He was a stanch democrat, and 
was an earnest communicant of the Lutheran Church, as is also his widow.  The 
family own also the mining enterprises conducted under the title of the 
Chesapeake Coal Company, at Bellaire, Ohio, and the Valley Grove Coal Company, 
likewise at Bellaire, of which Carl H., of this sketch, is vice-resident and 
treasurer, T.H. Johnson, of Bellaire, being the president.  Three children 
survive the honored father, and of the number Carl H.  is the eldest; George J. 
is secretary of the John S. Naylor Company of Wheeling; and Harry W. is 
secretary of the Chesapeake Coal Company at Bellaire, Ohio.

Carl H. Eberts gained his early education in the public schools, and in his 
eighteenth year he took a minor position in the Quarter Saving Bank at 
Wheeling, in which he served two months without compensation and in which he 
eventually won promotion to the position of teller.  In 1911 he became the 
active promoter of the Bank of Warwood, which was incoproated with a capital of 
$25,000, all stock being held by citizens of the immediate community.  The bank 
opened its doors May 1, 1911, and Mr. Eberts has been its cashier from the 
beginning, the shile his careful and progressive executive policies and his 
personal polularity have inured greatly to the success of the enterprise.  The 
present bank building, of modern architecture and equipment was completed and 
occupied in January, 1914, a two-story brick structure, with the banking 
offices, and with a second room that is used for mercantile purposes.  W.E. 
Helfenbine, the first president of the bank, was succeeded in 1913 by the 
present incumbent, F. J. Kenamond, and J.H. McDonald is the vice president.  
The bank has a safe-deposit department and is an institution that plays a large 
part in the general business life of the community.  It now has surplus and 
undivided profits of $25,000, it has paid regular six per cent dividends, and 
its deposits average about $500,000.

Mr. Eberts takes vital interest in all that concerns the welfare of his home 
community, and he and his wife are zealous and influential communicants of the 
Lutheran Church at Warwood, he being chairman of its Board of Trustees and vice 
president of its council.  He was a delegate to the Synodical Conference of the 
church at Fairmont, in 1921, and in the preceding year was a delegate to the 
United Lutheran Conference held in the City of Washington, D.C.  He has 
completed the circle of both York and Scottish Rite Masonry, in the latter of 
which he has received the thirty-second degree, besides being affiliated with 
the Mystic Shrine and the Order of the Eastern Star, of which latter his wife 
likewise is a member.  Mrs. Eberts, whose maiden name was Emma Johnson, is a 
daughter of T.H. Johnson, Bellaire, Ohio, who has been actively engaged in coal 
operations for more than forty years.  Mr. and Mrs. Eberts have one son, Herman 
Carl.