John Clendenin Eckels and Alice E. Smiley

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Husband John Clendenin Eckels ¹

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           Born: 22 Dec 1858 - near New Kingston, Cumberland Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Clendenin Eckels (1824-1896) 2
         Mother: Mary Lee Kenyon (1828-      ) 3

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       Marriage: 19 Feb 1891 4

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Wife Alice E. Smiley ⁴

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         Father: Rev. James W. Smiley (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Maria Emma Green (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - John Clendenin Eckels

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He was educated in the common school and at the Cumberland Valley State Normal School. Before completing his course at the normal school he was called home by the illness of his father to attend to the management of the farm. With his farm duties he found time and inclination to do teaching and taught the Hepburn school in Middlesex township and the Eckels school in Silver Spring township, each one term. When his parents moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he took entire charge of the farm and farmed until 1881, when he also moved to Carlisle. At first he clerked in a store, but soon formed a partnership with L. R. Brenneman, and under the firm name of Brenneman & Eckels conducted a retail shoe business. Mr. Brenneman sold his interest to W. C. Stuart, and Eckels & Stuart continued the business until in July, 1903, when Mr. Eckels sold out to Mr. Stuart for the purpose of going into the insurance and real-estate business. In 1897 he was elected a director of the Merchants' National Bank of Carlisle, and was made secretary to its board.
He and his wife belonged to the Second Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the church of their parents, in which Mr. Eckels was an elder and clerk of the session. At one time, he held the place of trustee. He was also president of the Y. M. C. A. of Carlisle.

1 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 126.

2 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 121.

3 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 123.

4 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 127.