MR. ELLERBROOK DIED LAST NIGHT
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Prominent Peru Contractor Victim of Bronchial-Pneumonia
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LEAVES DOZEN CHILDREN
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Widow Also Survives With Two Brothers and Three Sisters - Native of Ohio - Funeral Not Arranged
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Frank Ellerbrook, the well known contractor and a resident of Peru for 24 years, died at 8:45 o'clock last evening in St. Mary's hospital at LaSalle. He had been suffering from bronchial pneumonia and had been a patient in the hospital for seventeen days. Last week an operation was decided upon but this failed to benefit the sufferer, who sank steadily from that time to the hour of his dissolution on Memorial Day.
Born in Ohio
Mr. Ellerbrook was born 46 years ago in Glendorf, Ohio. He came to Peru at the age of 22 to make his residence and here was married to Miss Elizabeth Schweickert of this city. Thirteen children were born to the couple, twelve of whom survive with the heartbroken widow. The children are Elizabeth, William, Peter, Theresa, Frank Jr., Andrew, Aloysius, Charles, Joseph, Bernard, Beatrice and Henry.
His Business Life
In his early career here the deceased was employed by the Schweickert Bros. & Co., later he went into partnership with this contracting firm but, after a number of years, entered into partnership with A. Hoschelt, the firm being known as Ellerbrook & Hoschelt. He then left this firm and became a partner with Bert Schweickert in the general contracting business and continued in this work until four years ago, when he started a similar business for himself. He was quite successful in this line of work and also became one of Peru's most prominent and highly esteemed residents.
Funeral Not Arranged
Two brothers and three sisters also are left surviving Mr. Ellerbrook, these being Charles and Theodore of Glendorf, O., Mrs. Henry Schweickart of Peru, Miss Theresa of Glendorf, O., and Sister Seraphine of the Sacred Heart convent at Galfrow, Ohio.
Arrangements to the funeral have not yet been arranged.