Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Eichenlaub, George Henry 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

George Henry Eichenlaub, traveling agent for the Continental Bridge Company, 
his home being in Peotone, was born in Alsace-Loraine, Germany, in 1851. His 
father, Michael Eichenlaub, was also a native of that province, where he spent 
his entire life, following the occupation of farming. He married Elizabeth 
Werner and died in Germany in March, 1904, at the age of seventy-three years, 
while his wife is still living there at the age of seventy-six. They were 
members of the Confirmed Lutheran church. George H. Eichenlaub was reared in 
his native village to the age of fourteen years and attended the public 
schools from the age of six. The favorable reports which he heard concerning 
America and its business advantages awakened in him the desire to try his 
fortune in the new world, and accordingly, when fourteen years of age he 
started out in life on his own account, crossing the Atlantic to America. He 
made his way to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and for six months lived with an 
uncle. He then came to Peotone township, Will county, Illinois, and worked on 
a farm for his uncle, George Eichenlaub, being employed by the month for three 
years, but desiring that his labors should more directly benefit himself he 
rented a farm. Subsequently he did contract road work, at the same time 
managing his farming operations. In 1868 he came to the village of Peotone, 
where he has since lived. In 1905 he built a beautiful concrete residence of 
the nibble stone order. He is now traveling agent for the Continental Bridge 
Company, having works at Peotone, with main offices at Chicago. Mr. Eichenlaub 
was married in 1878 to Miss Nettie Morrison, a daughter of Alton Morrison. She 
died in 1893 at the age of forty-five years, and Mr. Eichenlaub has since 
wedded Laura Washburn, who was born in Union county, Ohio, in 1860 and is a 
daughter of Oliver and Hannah (Danforth) Washburn, the former a farmer by 
occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Eichenlaub have three daughters. The parents attend 
the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Eichenlaub is also identified with the 
Masons and the Odd Fellows, while his political allegiance is given to the 
republican party. His life has been characterized by unfaltering diligence and 
perseverance, by laudable ambition and firm determination, and although he 
came to the new world empty-handed he has made steady progress and is now 
comfortably situated in life.

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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