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Below is a family biography included in The History of Warrick County, Indiana published by Goodspeed, Bros. & Co. in 1885.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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FREDERICK RECKERT, cabinet manufacturer and furniture dealer, is a native of Berkanfeld, Germany, his birth occurring June 24, 1822. He is the third in a family of five children born to Egnatz and Katharina (Liesar) Reckert, who were also natives of the old country, where they died. After receiving the ordinary German common school education in youth, Frederick, at fourteen years of age, began learning the cabinet maker’s trade, at which he worked in his native town, also Hamburg and Bremen, for a number of years. In 1851 he left the land of his birth and crossing the Atlantic found employment at his trade at Allentown, Penn., Louisville, Ky., and New Albany, Ind., until 1854, when he came to Boonville, where he has ever since resided. Here Mr. Reckert opened a shop and commenced cabinet-making. Beginning life a poor boy in a strange land without any capital, he has made life a success, financially, now owning the buildings in which he is doing business, a comfortable brick residence and desirable town lots. He is one of Boonville’s substantial citizens, is a Republican in politics and he and wife are members of the German Methodist Episcopal Church. January 18, 1856, his marriage with Mina Loch was solemnized. To their union have been born ten children. Those yet living are Frederick; Caroline, who married Charles Schneider; Mina; Tillie; Lucy and Annie.

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This family biography is one of 274 biographies included in The History of Warrick County, Indiana portion of the book: History of Warrick, Spencer and Perry Counties Indiana published in 1885 by Goodspeed, Bros. & Co.  For the complete description, click here: Warrick County, Indiana History and Genealogy

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