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Below is a family biography included in The History of Franklin County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1888. 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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Joseph Eckert, a leading citizen of Franklin County, Mo., and ex-surveyor of that county, was born in Baden, Germany, October 16, 1855, and is the son of Joseph and Josephine (Krol) Eckert. The father was born in Switzerland about 1824, and died in 1857 from disease contracted while in prison at Rastadt, where he was confined as a prisoner of war during the German Revolution, in 1848. The mother was born in France in 1837, and is now a resident of Baden. Our subject immigrated to America in the spring of 1872, and located in Franklin County, in 1876. He began civil engineering in 1879, and in 1880 was elected, as a Democrat, to the office of surveyor of Franklin County, and held that position for four years. He then returned to his profession as civil engineer, and is engaged at that at the present time. In 1878 he married Miss Maggie Tremmel, a native of Union Township, Franklin Co., Mo., born in 1862, and the daughter of George and Barbara Tremmel. To their union four children have been born. Both Mr. Eckert and wife are members of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church.
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