Carroll-Union-Cass County IN Archives Biographies.....Eckerle, William M. 1874 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

WILLIAM M. ECKERLE.

   The present age has seen a most wonderful transformation in industrial
methods and processes. Many of the handicrafts have been abandoned and machines
have been substituted to do the work formerly done by skilled hand labor. Some
trades, however, are still necessary to every community, and one of them is that
of the blacksmith and horseshoer. William M. Eckerle, a well-known citizen of
Flora, Indiana, is a skilled blacksmith and a most highly-esteemed citizen of
Flora and vicinity.

   William M. Eckerle was born in Union county, Indiana, March 29, 1874, and is
a son of Leopold and Nancy (Mallory) Eckerle, the former of whom was a native of
Baden, Germany, who had two years' experience in his native land as a blacksmith
and horseshoer. He came to America at the age of nineteen, landing in New York
City. From there he made his way to Cincinnati, Ohio, where, for three years, he
worked as a blacksmith, saving his money in the meantime. Becoming dissatisfied
with life in the Queen City, he worked at different places until he finally
settled at Beechy Mire, near Richmond, Indiana, where, encouraged by responsible
farmers, he established a blacksmith shop. After remaining in that community for
nine years he had saved enough money to buy eighty acres of unimproved land in
Cass county, Indiana, to which he subsequently removed. He died in Flora,
Indiana, July 23, 1914. By his marriage to Nancy Mallory there were born eight
children, six of whom are now living: P. F., a resident of Lanark, Carroll
county, Illinois, where he is a banker and minister in the Conservative church;
C. E., of Oak Park, Illinois, is in the employ of the Co-operative Company, of
Chicago, Illinois; Anna, the wife of Allen Snyder, of Cass county, Indiana;
William M., the immediate subject of this review; Rose A., the wife of E. L.
Colvin, a clothing merchant of Flora, Indiana, and Mary, the wife of Dennis
Murphy, of Cass county, Indiana.

   Reared mostly in Cass county, Indiana, Mr. Eckerle attended the public
schools in his neighborhood and received a good common-school education. At the
age of twenty years he took up the work of blacksmithing, buying a half interest
in his father's shop at the of twenty-five, and remaining in the partnership
until he was thirty years old, at which time he bought out his father's
interests in the shop, conducting the business alone.

   In October, 1898, William W. Eckerle was married to Lizzie E. Witter, who was
born in Monroe township, Carroll county, Indiana, and educated in the common
schools. Mr. and Mrs. Eckerle are the parents of one son, George Leopold, born
on November 4, 1911.

   Mr. and Mrs. Eckerle are members of the Conservative church, of Flora.
Politically, Mr. Eckerle is identified with the Republican party.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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