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LOUIS ECKSTENKEMPER (deceased), was born in Steele, Germany, August 1, 1822. He came to America in about 1848, and directly to this city. For a few years after his arrival he engaged in several kinds of business, and by careful management was able to save up the necessary means to enable him to enter the lumber trade, which he did in 1866, having conducted a grocery business for the twelve years immediately previous. He married Franziska Pleiman in this city, June 17, 1851. They have six children living: Louis, Jr., Matilda, Amalie, Alice, Edward and George. Matilda married Fred. Albright, of Shaw & Albright, shoe manufacturers and dealers; Amalie married William Winkler, wholesale grocer, of this city. Mr. Eckstenkemper died of typhoid fever May 29, 1886, highly esteemed by all his fellow citizens, his loss being severely felt by the people of Louisville, where for eighteen years he had served as director in the German Insurance Bank; also as president of the Louisville Wharehouse Company. He was twice elected a member of the city School Board; was vice-president of the Liederkranz society for fifteen years, and a member of the same society for twenty-five years. He was during most of his life in this city a worthy member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and for many years a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, whose members, by his death, lost a bright link in the chain that binds them to earth, but in whose memory his many virtues will ever be kept green.