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Surnames: Eichhorn Hassler Houtz Gilbert
Classification: Biography
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William Eichhorn, one of the largest and most successful farmers and stock raisers of
RockCreek Township, is a native of Crawford County, Ohio, and dates his birth from the
20th of March, 1841. His parents, Philip and Margaret (Hassler) Eichhorn, were born in
Germany, but early emigrated to the United States, and settled with their respective
parents near the City of Mansfield, Crawford Co., Ohio. Here Philip Eichhorn began the
life of a farmer and although quite poor when first starting into the world upon his own
responsibilities succeeded in accumulating a handsome property which he sold in 1863, for
$12,350, and moved to Wells County, Ind. He invested his money in a choice tract of land
on the Wabash, and one year later, November, 1864, died at his new home aged fifty-seven
years. His widow still lives on the home place. William Eichhorn is the second in a
family of nine children, and spent his youth and early manhood with his father on the
farm, attending in the me!
antime the country schools where he obtained the elements of an English education.
August 26, 1866, he was united in marriage to Miss Adeline, daughter of Martin and Lydia
A. (Houtz) Gilbert, by whom he has had three children, two of whom, Wilson C., and Edwin
H., are now living. The eldest, Irene A., died in infancy. Mrs. Eichhorn was born in
Montgomery County, Ohio, November 15, 1848. Shortly after his marriage Mr. Eichhorn moved
to the farm where he is now living in Rock Creek Township. He now has a beautiful place
of 160 acres, the same which his father purchased in 1854, for the sum of $950. The farm
is well improved and upon it can be seen some of the finest stock in Huntington County.
Mr. Eichhorn has been a Democrat in politics, but of late years inclines to the
Prohibition party. He belongs to the Wells County Short Horn Breeders’ Association, and
as a farmer and stock raiser, has few, if any superiors in the county where he resides.
He and his wif!
e are members of the German Reformed Church.
History of Huntington County, Indiana. (Brant & Fuller: Chicago) 1887. Biographical
Sketches of Rock Creek Township, pages 763 and 764.