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Mr. and Mrs. Eckler have had four children, namely: Albert F., HIarry J., Clarence C. and Clara, but the last named died aged four years and two months. Albert F., a clerk and auditor in Hotel Holland, at Cleveland, married Christine Waterfield, and they have one child, Dorothy Eckler. Harry J., as mentioned above, is associated in business with his father. Clarence C. has charge of the office of the Aretic lee Cream Company, in Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Eckler is a member of the Royal Arcanum, and he and his family are members of the German Re- formed Church.
JACOB A. BIEHL. A man of excellent business capacity, intelligence and sterling integrity, Jacob A. Biehl, of Sandusky, is well and widely known as vice president of the American Banking and Trust Company, and as a stockholder in many of the leading enterprises of the eity. representative of one of the early German families of Erie County, he was born, April 28, 1855. in Sandusky, a son of Frederick Biehl.
His paternal grandfather, Conrad Biehl, was born in Kour Hessen, in the Kingdom of Hesse Cassel, Germany, and was there bred and educated. In 1848, several years after his marriage, he came with his family to this country, being three months crossing the Atlantic in a sailing vessel. Landing in New York, he came directly to Ohio, locating in Sandusky, which was then a small but flourishing place. The follow- ing year, in 1849, the Asiatic cholera reappeared in the United States, carrying terror to every home and heart, and proving fatal to thousands of people in every part of the country. In view of the terrible scourge. the president appointed the 3rd day of August as a day of fasting and prayer, that God would "avert the pestilence that walketh in darkness. and the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
Remaining in Sandusky, Conrad Biehl purchased a home on the east side of Hancock Street, near Neil Street, and was subsequently variousły employed in the city until his death, about 1859. His widow survived him a few years. They were the parents of eight children, as follows: HIenry, Jacob, Louis. Frederick, Charles, Conrad, Elizabeth and Margaret.
Born in Hesse Cassel, Germany, Frederick Biehl was but a child when he accompanied his parents to the United States. Growing to manhood beneath the parental rooftree, he began when young to assist
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in the support of the family as a wage-carner. On Angust 21 1862, he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Seventh Ohio Volunteer In- fantry. Going to the front, he was with his command in various engagements, including among others the battle of Gettysburg, where he was captured by the enemy, and subsequently confined in a Southern prison until exchanged, in September, 1864. Rejoining his regiment. he remained with it until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged, and mustered out of service with his company, July 10. 1865. For a number of years after his return to Sandusky he was fore- man of a lumber yard, continuing his residenee in that city until his death, which occurred at the family home, on Reese Street, in 1900.
The maiden name of the wife of Frederick Biehl was Barbara Meyers. She was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to America with her parents when a young girl. She is now living in Sandusky, an active woman of eighty-five years. She and her husband reared seven children, namely: Conrad, Jacob A., Louis, Martha, Barbara, Frederick and Charles.
Following in the footsteps of his father, Jacob A. Biehl gave his first earnings to his father, thus helping to support the family, his first work away from home having been in the country, on a farm. Entering the employ of the L. B. Johnson Company in 1872, he remained with that firm until 1888, when, without any previous experience, he embarked iu the grocery business at the corner of Warren and Reese streets. Meeting with signal suecess from the start, Mr. Bichl has since built up a thriving trade, and is now carrying on an extensive and remunerative business.
Mr. Bichl married, in 1878, Margaret Faulhaber, who was born in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, where her father. Valentine Faulhaber. settled on emigrating from Germany to Ohio in pioneer days. Mr. and Mrs. Biehl are the parents of four children, namely: Cora, R. Hin V .. Alvin and Wilbur. Cora, wife of John Ebert, has three children, Margaretta, Charles and Willard. Rollin V. married Adella Lerman, and they have one child, Eloise. Alvin married Alma Missig, and they have one child, Alvin Jacob. Fraternally Mr. Biehl is a member of Sandusky Aerie No. 444, Fraternal Order of Eagles; of Progress Lodge No. 1488, Knights and Ladies of Honor; and of F. W. Stevens Tent No. 1293, Knights of the Maccabees.
EDMOND II. SANORD. Well equipped for a professional career. Ed- mond II. Savord holds an assured position among the rising young attorneys of Erie County, being well established at Sandusky, where he is fast building up a satisfactory legal practice. A son of Alexander J. Savord. Jr., he was born, October 5. 1889, in Sandusky, a descendant of one of the early French families that settled in the City of Quebec, Canada. ITis grandfather, Alexander J. Savord, Sr., was a son of Joseph Savord, whose father, the great, great-grandfather of Edmund II. Savord, it is said, once owned the land in Detroit now occupied by the Union Station.
Alexander J. Savord, Sr., was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1838, and there as a youth learned from his father the trade of a ship joiner. which he followed in his native city until 1865. Coming then to Ohio, he located in Sandusky, where he was joined by his family a year later. Ile found employment at his trade, and also worked as a carpenter and cabinet maker, among other things making the desk now used by the judge in the court room of the Erie County courthouse. For a number of years he was in the employ of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Company, making water tanks. He continued his residence in Sandusky until his death, which occurred in 1890. Ile married Rebecca Ratte, who was born in 1843, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, where
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her father, Frank Ratte, who was of French descent, spent his entire life. She is now living in Ohio, her home being in Lorain. To her and her husband three children were born, as follows: Alexander J., Jr .; Rebecca ; and Edmond, who was drowned when a lad of twelve years.
Alexander J. Savord, Jr., was born in the City of Quebec, December 4, 1864, but since the early part of 1866 has been a resident of Sandusky, Ohio. Acquiring an excellent education in the parochial schools, he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed two years. He then learned the trade of a ship joiner with his father, who was operating a shop at the B. & A. docks. After the death of his father he assumed charge of the shop and managed it successfully for four years. He was subsequently superintendent for a Government contractor from 1895 until 1899, when, in the month of August, he was appointed Government inspector in charge of local works, a position of importance which he has since ably and satisfactorily filled, now having full charge of the harbors at Port Clinton, Sandusky, Huron and Vermilion, with head- quarters at Sandusky. While in the employ of the Government con- tractor he superintended the construction of the jetties placed at the entrance of the bay at Cedar Point.
The maiden name of the wife of Alexander J. Savord, Jr., was Jennie E. Kelley. She was born January 1, 1865, in Sandusky, of Irish par- entage. IIer father, Michael Kelley, was born and reared in County Roscommon, Ireland, and there married Catherine Maloney, a native of the same county. Coming with his wife to America in 1851, he located in Sandusky, and there continued his residence until his death, in 1874. His widow survived him many years, passing away in 1914, sixty-three years after her arrival in Sandusky as a bride. She was the mother of ten children. Four children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Savord, namely: Edmond H., with whom this brief sketch is chiefly concerned. Marzita ; Ruth, and Faber.
Laying a substantial foundation for his future education in the paro- chial and public schools, Edmond H. Savord was graduated from the Sandusky High School with the class of 1908. Desirous then of prepar- ing himself for a professional career, Mr. Savord entered the University of Notre Dame, at Notre Dame, Indiana, and in 1912 was graduated from the law department of that institution. Upon being admitted to the Ohio bar, he began the practice of law in Sandusky, and has since met with most encouraging success.
A democrat in politics, Mr. Savord cast his first presidential vote for Woodrow Wilson. From October 1, 1914, to June 1, 1915, he was director of safety, and on June 1 became city solicitor. Fraternally he belongs to Sandusky Council, No. 546, Knights of Columbus, and he is also a member of the Holy Name Society. Since 1912 he has served as presi- dent of the Sandusky High School Alumni Association.
FRED W. BAUER. Possessing excellent business ability and judgment, Fred Bauer, of Sandusky, is eminently qualified for the position he holds in the municipal department of finance, and well deserves the com- mendation and approbation of the general public for the prompt and efficient manner in which he is discharging his duties as city auditor. A son of the late Adam Bauer, he was born in Sandusky, December 6, 1868, of German deseent.
His paternal grandfather, John Philip Bauer, was born in the Village of Messbach. Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, a son of Johann Conrad Baner, who married Anna Barbara Stohr. Leaving school at the age of four- teen years, he served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade in Niedermodan. Then, taking the place of an elder brother in the army, he fought the Prussians under Napoleon I, and took an active part in
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the Polish invasion as a brave soldier enduring great hardships. Being discharged from the service, he followed his trade in both France and Switzerland, and when the Germans again took up arms against the French he fought in the German army until honorably discharged. He subsequently lived at Billings, near Steinau, Germany, until 1836.
On August 10 of that year he set sail for America, accompanied by his family, and after an unusually rough voyage landed in Baltimore. Coming from there westward to Pittsburgh by rail, and thence by team to Ohio, he took up a tract of timbered land in Crawford County, and, having erected a log cabin to shelter his family, began the pioneer task of clearing the farm on which he spent his remaining days. He mar- ried, May 24, 1818, a comely young widow, whose maiden name was Anna Catherine Feick. Although he attained the age of four score and four years, she ontlived him, dying at a venerable age. They reared five sons and three daughters, and at the time of his death they had forty- six grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
Adam Baner was born October 21, 1821, in the Grand-Duchy of Hesse, formerly Hesse-Darmstadt, and as a youth came with his parents to Ohio, having a long and stormy trip across the Atlantic. He assisted his father in hewing a farm from the forest. When ready to start in life for himself he spent a year in Toledo, being employed on the canal. Re- turning home, he again assisted his father in the management of the farm for a time. In 1844 he made his way on foot to Sandusky, arriving in the city with but $5 in his pocket, his sole capital. Ile soon found work as a carpenter, and ere many years had passed was well established as a contractor and builder, with a shop at the corner of Water and Jackson streets, that having been at a time when all door and window sashes were made by hand. Purchasing property at the corner of Market and Decatur streets in 1849, he erected a building. and was there engaged in the grocery business until 1876, when he removed to a building which he had previously put up at the corner of Monroe and Decatur streets. After conducting a thriving business at that location a few years, he sold out, and thereafter lived retired in Sandusky until his death. December 14, 1901.
The maiden name of the wife of Adam Bauer was Caroline IIem- berle. She was born in Germany, and in 1834 came with her parents to America, taking passage on a sailing vessel, and landing in New York. From there the family proceeded by way of the Hudson River to Albany. thence by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, and by lake to Sandusky, where the family took teams to Crawford County, Ohio. A few years later Mr. Hemberle moved with his wife and children to Erie County, settling on a farm in Perkins Township, but remaining only a short time there. Ile and his wife then moved to Sandusky, and there spent the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Caroline Bauer is still living, a bright aud active woman of eighty-seven years. To her and her husband seven children were born, as follows: John, who died at the age of forty years; Caro- . line : Ilarriet : Albert : Fred W., the subject of this brief personal narra- tive : Theodore, who lived but fourteen years: and Adam, who also died when but fourteen years old.
Having finished the course of study in the publie schools of San- dusky, Fred W. Bauer worked for awhile at the plumber's trade, after which he entered the employ of Thomas T. Dill as timekeeper and assist- ant superintendent of the work of grading and building roads, and set- ting out trees on the grounds of the Ohio Soldiers' Home, retaining the position a year. The ensuing fifteen years Mr. Baner was connected with the waterworks department of the City of Sandusky, five years of that time serving as superintendent. He then accepted a position with the Sandusky Gas and Electric Company as manager, and at the end of
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three years resigned to become secretary of the A. Schmidt, Jr .. & Brothers Wine Company, with which he was associated in that capacity for four years. In 1911 Mr. Bauer gave up the secretaryship to become assistant city auditor, assuming the office in August of that year. Three months later, in November, 1911, he was elected to the position, and served so acceptably to all concerned that at the expiration of his term of service, in November, 1913, he had the honor of being re-elected to the same office by a large majority of the votes cast.
Mr. Baner married, in 1891, Sabina Denhart, who was born in San- dusky, a daughter of Justus and Anna Denhart, natives of Germany. Four children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Bauer, namely : Harriet, Esther, Mary and Fred D. Mrs. Baner's parents belonged to the German Evangelical Church, and reared their family in the same faith. The Misses Harriet and Esther Bauer are members of Grace Episcopal Church.
Fraternally Mr. Baner is a member of Sandusky Lodge, No. 128. Knights of Pythias; of Sandusky Herd, No. 471, Loyal Order of Moose : and of Sandusky Aerie, No. 444, Fraternal Order of Eagles. Gifted with a natural taste and talent for music, Mr. Bauer began playing the violin in his youthful days, and the greater part of the time during the past sixteen years has been leader of the orchestra at the Sandusky Theatre.
JOIN ADAM FEICK. Prominent in the business activities of San- dusky, John Adam Feick, head of the firm of John A. Feick & Son, is numbered among the leading contractors and builders of Erie County. and is widely known as president of the Butler Stone Company, and as one of the directorate of the Third National Bank of Sandusky. A son of AAdam Frick, he was born in this city, January 28, 1862, of substantial German ancestry. Ilis grandfather, Philip Feick, a life-long resident of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, was for many years engaged in the manu- facture of wagons at Steinau, and was also interested to some extent in agriculture, owning farm land in that vicinity.
Adam Feick was born, May 3, 1822, in Steinan, Hesse-Darmstadt. Germany, and was there brought up and educated, spending the first thirty years of his life in his native town. Leaving the fatherland on September 21, 1852, he came to America in search of fortune, if not fame, and immediately settled in Sandusky, Ohio. Finding employment as a journeyman carpenter and joiner, he soon won an excellent reputa- tion for skillful and honest workmanship. Subsequently forming a part- nership with his brother George under the name of Adam Feick & Brother, he met with very encouraging success from the start, the firm of which he was the head being awarded many important contracts and having charge of the erection of many of the city's large and handsome structures.
On January 8, 1859, Adam Feiek married, in Sandusky, Johanna Fulton, who was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1841, a daughter of John Frederick Fulton. Mr. Fulton, who was born June 7. 1807, in Wurtemberg, Germany, immigrated to the United States in early life, locating first in Pennsylvania. Coming with his family to Ohio in 1843, he settled in Hancock County, and subsequently continued a resi- dent of the state until his death, April 24, 1881. IIe married, in 1832. Magdalena Koli, and of the twelve children born of their union seven were living at the time of his death. Ten children blessed the marriage of Adam and Johanna (Fulton ) Feick, as follows: John Adam, the special subject of this brief sketch ; Ida Elizabeth ; Christina died in in- fancy; George, who lived but one year; Alford; Henrietta Katherine : Emma Helena ; Cora Wilhelmina ; Minnie Louise; and Lewis Alfred. Mr. Adam Feick died in March, 1893, and his wife on November 17,
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1908. Both were artive workers in the German Lutheran Church, he having served as elder, treasurer and vestryman, while she was for many years a prominent member of the Humane Society connected with that church.
Having acquired his preliminary education in the public schools of Sandusky, John A. Feick was subsequently graduated from Saint Mary's Institute. Commencing to work with his father when young, he soon mastered the trade of a carpenter and builder, and later was admitted to partnership with his father and unele George, the firm name becom- ing Adam Feick & Company. After the death of his father, Mr. Feick continued in business with his unele under the firm name of George Feick & Company until 1902. He subsequently conducted business alone until 1913, when he admitted to partnership his son, John C. Feick, with whom he has sinee been associated as senior member of the firm of John A. Feick & Son.
Mr. Feick married, in November, 1884, Elizabeth Zipfel, who was born in Sandusky, a daughter of Constantine Zipfel, and granddaughter of Joseph and Mary Zipfel, natives of Baden, Germany, who emigrated from there to Ohio in 1851, and after living three years in Clyde located in Sandusky, where they spent their remaining days. Born May 21, 1839, in Norsingen, Baden, Germany, Constantine Zipfel was but a boy when he came with his parents to Ohio. While living in Clyde he began work at the butcher's trade, and after coming to Sandusky in 1854 fol- lowed it for a time. Subsequently starting in life on his own account, he was for upwards of thirty years engaged in the provision business on Water Street, at the same time, having purchased land near the city. he was carrying on farming and stock raising quite successfully. He con tinned in active pursuits until his death, in Sandusky. June 4, 1894. On December 31, 1858, Mr. Zipfel married Marie Daniel, who was born in Sandusky, ard died June 28, 1886, leaving seven children, as follows: Charles; Joseph ; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Feick; Mary; Ida: Laura; and Alfred. A stanch republican in politics, Mr. Zipfel served as a member of the city eouneil for a number of years, and during one campaign was the republican eandidate for mayor of Sandusky. Both he and his wife were members of Saint Mary's Catholic Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Feick's only child, John C. Feick, now in business with his father, married Mylitta Emma Taubert, who was born in Sandusky, a daughter of Lewis JJ. and Catherine (Stroble) Taubert, and they have one daughter, Mary Katherine Louise Feick, born in March, 1914.
Religiously Mr. Feick and his family belong to the German Lutheran Church. Fraternally Mr. Feiek and his son are both members of Perse- veranee Lodge No. 329. Free and Accepted Masons : of Sandusky Council No. 26. Royal and Select Masons; of Sandusky Chapter No. 72. Royal Arch Masons; of Erie Commandery No. 23, Knights Templar; and both are thirty-second degree Masons, Mr. Feick being a member of the Lake Erio Consistory, and his son of the Toledo Consistory. Mr. Feick has always taken an active and intelligent interest in public affairs, and has served as a member of the city council and of the board of public service.
CAPT. JOUN C. ZOLLINGER. For many years actively identified with the mercantile and manufacturing interests of Sandusky. Capt. John C. Zollinger, a man of excellent business enterprise and judgment, has acemulated a fair share of this world's goods, and is now living retired from active pursuits, enjoying a well-earned leisure. He is a veteran of the Civil war, and also one of the oldest native-born citizens of San- dusky, his birth having occurred in this city October 10. 1842. 1His parents, Charles W. and Christina (Smith) Zollinger, of whom a brief account may be found on another page of this volume, in connection
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with the sketch of Frederick P. Zollinger, were born and educated in Germany.
Educated in the Sandusky schools, John C. Zollinger completed his early studies in the old high school building that stood on the spot now occupied by the courthouse, it having been a two-story structure contain- ing four rooms, one being used by the high school, one for the highest grammar grade, and the other two for recitation rooms. With a keen appreciation of the dignity of honest toil, he began work as soon as old enough, at the age of fourteen years becoming a elerk in the dry goods establishment of Everett Cooke & Company, and later entering the employ of C. E. & G. A. Cooke. In 1861 he enlisted in Company G. Sixty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and subsequently saw service under Generals Buell, Sheridan, Rosecrans and Thomas. He took part in many of the more important engagements of the conflict, ineluding among others those at Shiloh. Perryville, Stone . River and Missionary Ridge, participating in all the pitched battles and minor engagements en route from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and after the siege and capture of the latter city again met the enemy in the battles at Franklin and Nashville.
In 1863, his term of enlistment having expired, Mr. Zollinger veteran- ized, and subsequently, for gallant and meritorious conduct, he was pro- moted, receiving his commission as eaptain ere reaching the age of twenty-three years. In the spring of 1865 Captain Zollinger was sent with his regiment to Texas, and there on December 25, 1865. he was honorably discharged from the service.
In 1866 the captain was employed as clerk in the office of an express company, and the ensuing few years was engaged in the dry goods business on his own account. Ile sold out his stoek for the purpose of entering into a partnership with Frederick Ohlemaeher, and was for ten years engaged in the manufacture of lime, having large quarries at Marblehead, Ohio. Disposing of his interest in the quarries, Captain Zollinger, in company with Louis Adolph, was successfully engaged in the fish business until 1900, but since that time has lived retired from business activities.
In 1866 Captain Zollinger was united in marriage with Paulina Lereh, who was born near Basel, Germany, a daughter of William and Barbara Lerch. Her father was a revolutionist during the uprising of 1848, and when the cause failed he, like Carl Sehurz and others of his caliber, emigrated to America. Coming directly to Ohio, Mr. Lereh em- barked in the jewelry business at Sandusky, and when well established sent for his wife and Panlina, their only child. Prosperous in his under- takings, both he and his good wife there spent the remainder of their lives. True to the faith in which they were reared. they were con- sistent members of the German Lutheran Church. Mrs. Zollinger, who was brought up in the same religious belief, passed to the life beyond November 11, 1904.
Captain Zollinger is a member of MeMeens Post, No. 19, Grand Army of the Republic, in which he is greatly interested. Fraternally he belongs to Seienee Lodge, No. 50, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, with which he has been connected for upwards of half a century, and of which he is past master; and to Erie Commandery, No. 23, Knights Templar.
STEPHEN HENRY ROGERS. Every passing year adds to the venera- tion and respect in which the few surviving veterans of the great war between the North and South are held. An Erie County soldier who made a record for himself by faithfulness to duty and efficiency as a soldier during the '60s is Stephen Henry Rogers, a native of Erie County,
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