Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....Hecker, Charles A. 1831 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
   CHARLES A. HECKER. - Among the prominent residents of Cherry township, who,
  after a long life spent in honorable employment, have now settled down to enjoy
  in their comfortable homes the result of their labors, may be classed the
  subject of this sketch.
  
      A native of Prussia, Mr. Hecker was born August 14, 1831, the son of
  Christian F. and Mariah (Thuridayer) Hecker, whose entire lives were spent in
  their native country, where the father was engaged in the butchering business.
  The latter died in April, 1844, aged forty-seven years, while his wife survived
  him until 1886, passing away at the ripe old age of eighty-two. The children of
  this worthy couple were Charles A.; Augusta, who married Mr. Beck, and died in
  Germany; Ernesta, twice married, her first husband being Frederick Shrifogel and
  the second John Siaman, a farmer in Cherry township; Bernetina married Conrad
  Lucast, and both died in Germany; Frederick lives in Germany and is a carpenter
  by trade.
  
      Mr. Hecker was married, in Philadelphia, April 9, 1854, to Miss Elizabeth
  Miller, who was born in Rettinburg, Germany, October 7, 1831. She is the
  daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth (Spidle) Miller, natives of Germany, where
  they spent their lives, the father being a farmer and also a weaver. Mrs. Hecker
  came to America in 1853 with her brother John, who located in Philadelphia and
  followed the trade of a machinist. The remaining children of the Miller family
  were: Mary, who died in Germany; Catherine and David, both living and farming in
  that country.
  
      Charles A. Hecker came to the United States in 1852, landing at New York
  city on August 1st of that year. He remained there but a short time and then
  went to Philadelphia, where he entered the employ of Grove & Brothers as a
  carpenter, millwright, etc., in their linseed-oil refinery. So useful did he
  make himself in various capacities to this firm that he remained with them for
  twenty-seven years, fully meriting the high esteem in which he was held.
  
      At length, feeling that a change would be a benefit to him, Mr. Hecker
  decided to leave the City of Brotherly Love, and in 1882 he removed to Sullivan
  county and settled on a farm in Cherry township. After seven years experience as
  an agriculturist, he concluded that it was too slow a way to make money, and
  thus he returned to his old position in Philadelphia, where the next seven years
  were spent. The free, open air life of the toiler of the soil still had its
  charms for him, however, and seven years later he again came to Sullivan county,
  and purchased another farm in the same township in which he formerly lived.
  There he has most probably settled himself for the remainder of his life, and in
  his comfortable home, happy in the affection of his wife and his two surviving
  children and in the esteem and good will of his fellow citizens, he is spending
  the latter years of his life, - years which with him may be called the best of all.
  
      Of the four children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hecker, Ernestina married David
  Phillips and is deceased; John died in childhood; Frederick was born September
  23, 1858; and Kate M. is the wife of Conrad Kraus, whose sketch will be found on
  another page.
  
      Mr. Hecker in politics is a loyal Democrat, in religious views is a member
  of the Lutheran church and socially belongs to Humboldt Lodge, I. O. O. F., in
  Philadelphia.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  
  Extracted from: 
                
              History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                        by Thomas J. Ingham
                
                             Compendium of Biography
                
              The Lewis Publishing Company
    Chicago: 1899
  
  
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