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EBERHARD FABER, lead pencil manufacturer, born in Stein, Bavaria, Dec. 6,
1822, died in New York city, March 2, 1879. Caspar Faber, the first member of the
family engaged in this industry, began the manufacture of lead pencils in 1761, in the
little village of Stein, in Bavaria, and the industry has since been carried on by his
family. In 1784, his son, Anthony William Faber, took charge of the business, and
was succeeded by his son, George Leonard Faber. About 1849, Lothavon Faber, head
of the German house, saw the necessity of establishing a branch of the business in
America; and accordingly, in that year, Eberhard, son of George Leonard Faber, who
preferred a practical career to the study of the law, which he had been pursuing at
several of the German Universities, was sent to New York city. In 1851, he opened a
house at No. 133 William street, as the agent of the A. W. Faber lead pencils, and in
1852 began the exportation to Germany of red cedar. In 1861, he built the first lead
pencil factory in the United States at the foot of 42d street on the East river, and when,
in 1872, this was burned, he built another at Kent and West streets in Greenpoint. In
1877, the office of the house was removed from William street to Broadway. Mr. Faber
also introduced the manufacture of pen-holders, gold pens and rubber goods of all
varieties, connected with the stationery trade. He enjoyed a practical monopoly of the
pencil industry for many years, and by his enterprise made the A. W. Faber lead pen¬
cils as well known in every home and school in America as that of the parent house in
Germany has made it in Europe. Mr. Faber's surviving children are John Eberhard,
Lothair, Bertha, Sophia, Louise and Rosie Faber.—His son, JOHN EBERHARD
FABER, born March 14, 1859, in New York city, was christened John Robert Faber
and was educated at the School of Mines, Columbia College, and in Nuernberg, Ger¬
many, and Paris, France. He then entered the office of his father, where he learned
every necessary detail of the manufacture and sale of lead pencils. In 1879, tie took
charge of the business in America, and then received permission from the courts to
change his middle name to Eberhard. Several years later, he admitted his brother
Lothair to the firm. Mr. Faber is a very capable manager of his business. He
operates a factory in Brooklyn, and derives his supply of red cedar from Florida, which
State alone grows this wood in perfection. Mr. Faber operates a large cedar yard and
factory in Cedar Keys, Fla., at which the red cedar logs are sawed into slabs, ready for
transportation to New York or Europe. His agents are continually exploring Florida
for cedar lands, and have purchased for him large tracts of the standing timber. Mr.
Faber is a director of The First National Bank of Staten Island, The American Life
Union, and The Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and a member of the Staten Island Cricket
and Staten Island Athletic clubs.     He was married in 1887 to Abby Boles Adams.

EGISTO PAULO FABBRI, banker, born Dec. 28, 1828, in Florence, Italy, died
there, June 25, 1894. His father, Giovanni Fabbri, was a merchant of silk. His mother
was Russian. Egisto received a sound education in Italy and England and planned to
be a surgeon. Upon the death of his father, however, he entered a shipping house in
Livorno and when it failed went to Paris. In 1851, he came to the new world. In 1852,
he returned to Italy, but came to America again in  1854.    After a year's search for