Louis Eschle
Silver Bow County
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913

Louis A. Eschle is a man of unusual enterprise and 
initiative and has met with such marvelous good 
fortune in his various business projects that it 
would verily seem as though he possessed an open 
sesame to unlock the doors to success.  A native 
of the fine old Gopher State of the Union, Louis A. 
Eschle was born in the city of St. Paul Minnesota, 
the date of his nativity being the 22nd of September 
1866.  He is a son of Henry and Mary (Wey) Eschle, 
both of whom were born and reared in Germany, whence 
they immigrated to America.  Henry Eschle ws one of 
the early settlers in St. Paul, Minnesota, having come 
to that place when it was populated by not more than 
half a dozen white men.  He was a contractor and 
builder of note and figured prominently in public 
affairs.  He was a soldier in many of the Indian 
Wars of early Minnesota and at the time of the 
inception of the Civil War gave evidence of his 
intrinsic loyalty to the cause of the Union by 
enlisting as a soldier in the Second Minnesota 
Volunteer Infantry.  He served through the entire 
period of the war and participated in many of the 
most important engagements marking the progress of 
the war, having been several times wounded.  He was 
summoned to the life eternal in 1881 at the age of 
fifty-six years.  Mrs. Eschle came to St. Paul when 
young and there was solemnized her marriage; she 
passed away in 1909 at the age of seventy six years.

The seventh in order of birth in a family of ten 
children, Louis A. Eschle received his early educational 
training in the public schools of St. Paul.  At the 
age of thirteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship 
to learn the plumber's trade in the shop of Wilson and 
Rogers, at St. Paul, the largest plumbing concern west 
of Chicago.  He served an apprenticeship of six years 
and during that time mastered the business in all its 
branches, becoming an expert plumber, gas and steam 
pipe fitter.  He was employed in the shop of Wilson 
and Rogers for three years as a journeyman and in 
1886 came to Montana locating first in the city of 
Helena where he secured a position with the plumbing 
concern of Dutton and O'Brien.  He remained with the 
latter concern for one year at the expiration of which 
he decided to open a plumbing shop of his own.  Coming 
to Butte in 1888 he established his present business, 
beginning in a modest way and gradually spreading out 
the scope of his operations until he now does business 
throughout the state.

At Helena, in November 1889 was solemnized the marriage 
of Mr. Eschle to Miss Ida S. Ganote, who was born and 
reared at Jeffersonville Indiana, who is a daughter of 
George Ganote, a representative citizen at Union Store 
Missouri.  Mr. and Mrs. Eschle are the parents of two 
daughters--Juanita and Lulu, both of whom are attending 
school at Butte.