The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 969 FRED EBERLE. Fred Eberle, manager for the Yakima County Horticultural Union, was born in Dekalb county, Missouri, November 7, 1877, a son of George and Mary (Strong) Eberle. The father, a farmer by occupation, removed to Doniphan county, Kansas, in 1887 and still makes his home there. The son, then a lad of ten years, continued his education in the public school of that locality and afterward had the benefit of instruction in a business college at St. Joseph, Missouri. Early in his business career he spent four years with the Wells Fargo Express Company in southern Kansas and in Oklahoma and in December, 1904, he arrived in the Pacific northwest, making his way to Seattle, where he resided until May 29, 1905, when he came to Yakima. Here he entered into association with the firm of J. M. Perry & Company and in 1906 and 1907 was with the Ryan-Newton Company, wholesale fruit dealers. From 1908 until 1910 inclusive he was with the Yakima County Horticultural Union as a traveling salesman and from 1911 until 1913 was the northwestern representative at Yakima for the C. H. Robinson Company of Grand Forks, North Dakota. In August of the latter year he became assistant manager of the Yakima County Horticultural Union and in February, 1915, was advanced to the position of general manager. This is a gigantic concern, controlling, directing and protecting the interests of the leading fruit raisers of this section of the state. The organization is formed of the most prominent horticulturists of the Yakima valley and has an immense plant in the city of Yakima, with warehouses and branch establishments at various other points. As general manager Mr. Eberle is bending his efforts to administrative direction and executive control and is in close touch with every phase of horticultural life and development in the northwest. He is the vice president of the Yakima Valley Traffic & Credit Association, a fact which indicates his familiarity with all that has to do with shipping interests. On the 4th of October, 1904, Mr. Eberle was married to Miss Cassie E. Hubbard, of Kirksville, Missouri, and they have one son, Gordon. Mr. Eberle belongs to Yakima Lodge, No. 24, F. & .A. M., and passing up through the York Rite has become identified with Yakima Chapter, No. 21, R. A. M., and Yakima Commandery, No. 13, K. T. His wife attends the Presbyterian church and in social circles they are prominently known. Mr. Eberle also belongs to the Yakima Commercial Club and to the Yakima Valley Business Men's Association and is interested in every project put forth to benefit the city and valley in its extending trade relations. Politically Mr. Eberle is a republican, loyal in his support of what he believes to be for the best interests of community, commonwealth and country. He is alert to every opportunity opened in the ramifying branches of trade, is actuated in all that he does by a spirit of progressiveness and his initiative has carried forward the organization which he represents to a point where it has become a most dominant factor in the trade conditions of the northwest affecting horticultural interests. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.