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WILLIAM L. RECK, miller and grain dealer; P. O. Gettysburg; the son of David Reck, whose biography appears in another place of this work; born in Pennsylvania, on the 10th of February, 1835; came with his parents to Ohio when he was in his 4th year; spent his boyhood days on his father’s farm, and obtained his education in the first schoolhouse that was built in Adams Township; at the age of 21 he apprenticed himself to his brother to learn the carpentering trade, and at the expiration of two and a half years he completed his trade, and formed a partnership with his brother, carrying on the business for about six years, meeting with good success; dissolved partnership, and worked on his own responsibility till 1864, when, on the 2d day of May, he enlisted in the 100-day service, going forth in defense of his country; was mustered in the United States Service at Camp Dennison, where he joined the 152d O. N. G. Co. C, and was appointed Sergeant; joined the command of Gen. Hunter in Virginia; he was in several hard-fought battles and long and tedious marches, viz.: Lynchburg Sulphur Springs, Liberty, etc.; on the 2d of September, 1864, he was mustered out at Camp Dennison; he enlisted in the State service, 28th Battalion Co. D, and was appointed Third Sergeant; after his return from the army he was drafted, but hired a substitute, Joseph Allspaugh, who died in Wilmington, N. C.; in 1871 he purchased the half-interest in the Premium Flouring Mills, near Gettysburg, where he now resides; the mill has four run of buhrs, with a capacity of 100 bushels per day; the brand of flour brings the highest market price in the Eastern market; he handles about 150,000 bushels of grain during the year, always paying the highest market price. Was united in marriage with Mary Ann Trump on the 14th of August, 1859; she was born in Montgomery County, Ohio on the 27th of April, 1840; seven children have been born to this union viz.: Ervin, Born June 10, 1861; Lanna Bell, Oct. 22, 1863; Horris, July 6, 1866; Harriett, July 6, 1866; Olive, May 22, 1861; Cora, May 16, 1870; Mary Blanch, Dec. 12, 1874. Mr. Reck has accumulated a considerable amount of property by his hard labor, in which he has been nobly assisted by his good and industrious wife; he is a member of the Masonic Order, also of the I. O. O. F. of Gettysburg; he stands high in both orders, and is known as an honest, upright man in all his dealings, being strictly temperate in all his habits.