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 BEAVER FALLS PAPERS. 117 merged into the "Daily X-Ray," when he and J. L. Hohnes Esq. bought out the entire plant, and resold the Radical Printing Co., with building and material to Smith Curtis. Mr. Mansfield has published a book on the "WUd Plowers" of Beaver County, Pa., also one on the "Coal and Fire Clay" of Beaver county. He was a member of the Legislature for the terms 1881, 1893-5-7 and 1903. Major Gilbert L. Eberhart is descended on his f ather'? side from a noble Geiman family, with ancestors who came to this country in 1758, and served with honor in the wars of the Revolution and 1812; his father was a grandnephew of Gen. Hugh Mercer, who fell at the battle of Princeton, N. J., in 1777. He is a native of Beaver county, and his education was begun in Beaver Academy, and later in Mercer Academy, where he was graduated in a classical course of three years, and then spent two years in Washington, Pa., College. He was civil en- gineer on the Erie & Pittsburg Railway, of which his uncle. Gen. Thomas J. Power, was promoter and first president. He taught school in Greenville, was superin- tendent of the Mercer County public schools and princi- pal of the Conneautville, Pa., Academy. April 17, 1861, he enlisted in Col. John W. McLane's Erie Regiment as Sergeant in Company D., later serving on the staff of the Eighth Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps. June 21, 1862, he was promoted by Gen. Meade to Commissary of Subsistence in his brigade in the Third division of Porter's corps. In 1862 he was commissioned Quarter- master of the Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves. At Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, he lost the hearing in his right ear. In 1865 he was assigned to duty by Gen. Rufus Saxton as superintendent of Freedmen's Schools for the State of Georgia, and established more than 250 schools in two years. In 1868 he was superintendent of the public schools of Rochester, and later in Kittan-