Will Ellebracht is the son of a pioneer of Mason County, and he was born on his father's ranch twenty miles south of the city of Mason in 1867, a son of Fritz and Sophia (Hasse) Ellebracht, both yet living on the old homestead there. Fritz Ellebracht was born in Germany and immigrating to the United States and to Texas in 1845, he established his home in Mason County, and is now numbered among the earliest of the county's pioneers. During the pioneer period he passed through all the privations and hardships incident to frontier life, including the starting of a ranch in a wilderness where neighbors were few and widely scattered, and the conflicts with the Indians, of which Mr. Ellebracht seems to have had entirely his share. He is remembered by the older residents as one of the bravest and most fearless of those whose duty it was to protect the homes, property and lives of the settlers from the fearful ravages of the Comanches and Kiowas. The son can also recall to mind some of those fearful raids, and particularly the one in which the Indians stole six mules and a horse from the Ellebracht ranch.
Will Ellebracht while yet a youth left the ranch to learn the mechanical trade, particularly that of milling. He became familiar with the making of flour under the best of training in the big Shriner mill at Kerrville. In 1901 he purchased the old corn mill and cotton gin at Mason, and he remodeled and enlarged these plants and put them in first class condition with the best of machinery. In 1905 he bought the electric light plant of the town, which had been allowed to run down into a very bad condition and moving the plant from the northern part of the town to its present location in connection with the mill and gin, he remodeled it, installed new equipment and transformed it into a first-class industry. In 1906 he sold a half interest in the three plants to seven of the leading businessmen of Mason County, and they, with Mr. Ellebracht, form the Mason Power and Ice Company, and about that same time the company installed an ice factory of ten tons capacity and equipped it with the Wolf-Linda ice machinery. The combined plants, of which Mr. Ellebracht is the manager, form the leading industries of the city.
Mr. Ellebracht's wife is Etta (Bell) Ellebracht, born in Mason County, and their two children are Irvin and Gladys. Source: A History of Central and Western Texas, Vol 1, Captain B. B. Paddock, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1911

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