Contributed by Charlene Saunders:
JOHN M. EACOCK, boot and shoe merchant, and an active and enterprising
businessman of La Fayette, is a native of Suffolk, England, the date of
his birth being April 14, 1847. He was reared and educated in his
native country, and there learned the shoemaker's trade. He left
England for America by the Inman line, in 1870, and May 4 landed in New
York City, and May 7 arrived at La Fayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
He began working on a farm in this county, which he followed for eleven
weeks, when he returned to La Fayette, and soon found employment in the
boot and shoe factory of A. G. Carnahan, Bro. & Co., where he was
engaged for some time. His next employment was as shipping clerk in the
wholesale house of W. W. Comstock & Co., and made his maiden trip on the
road for this firm. Later he went to Chicago, and from 1875 until the
fall of 1877, he traveled for the wholesale boot and shoe house of
Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, after which he traveled for Redpath Brothers, of
Boston, Massachussets, with headquarters at Indianapolis, Indiana. In
August, 1886, he established his present business at La Fayette, which
he has since followed with success.
MR. EACOCK was married at Indianapolis, to MISS ARABELLA E. LUDLOW, who
was born in Newark, New Jersey. They are the parents of one child, a
daughter named BELLE MIDDLETON. In his political views MR. EACOCK
affiliates with the Republican party.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana
pp. 580-581