A. Nebeker

    A. Nebeker, County Superintendent, was born near Covington, Indiana, September 9, 1838, and is one of eight children born to George and Mary (Steely) Nebeker. The family is descended from German ancestors, their advent in the United States having been previous to the Revolutionary war; but our subject's grandfather married an English lady, and his father a native born American lady. His parents were natives of Pickaway County, Ohio, and moved to Fountain County, Indiana at a very early day, and were here married in 1833. His mother died in 1870, but his father yet lives and resides in Fountain County.

     After attending the common schools of his locality, the subject of this sketch entered Asbury University, but after four years application in the classical course of that institution, was compelled to relinquish his studies by reason of ill health. For a number of years he was engaged in various occupations, but in 1868, he decided on the teacher's profession as his vocation. He was steadily employed at this from 1868 until 1875, but in the latter year was appointed Superintendent of the Public Schools of Warren County. In 1877, he established himself in the drug trade in Williamsport, at which he has since been engaged and in 1881, he was re-appointed County Superintendent, and is yet engaged in that capacity. Mr. Nebeker is doing a good trade in the post office building, is a teacher of sixty-nine months experience, is a Republican in politics, and a faithful and efficient officer as well as an esteemed citizen and since 1868 has resided in Warren County.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.