Jacob Bausch Eckfeldt and Jeanette Rose Latch

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Husband Jacob Bausch Eckfeldt ¹

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         Father: Jacob R. Eckfeldt (1803-1872) 1
         Mother: Emily M. Levering (      -      ) 1

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Wife Jeanette Rose Latch ²

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1 M John Jacob Eckfeldt ³

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           Born: 30 Nov 1877 - Plymouth Valley, near Conshohocken, PA 2
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         Spouse: Emma Berlin McMurray (      -      ) 4 5
           Marr: 16 Jan 1908 5

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Bausch Eckfeldt

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He entered upon his work at the United States Mint in the assay department, in April, 1865. After the death of his father in 1872, he was appointed assistant assayer, his appointment dated October 26, 1872, and made with the approval of President Grant. After the death of William E. DuBois, assayer, Mr. Eckfeldt was appointed assayer, December 5, 1881, his appointment coming through President Arthur. He was the sixth man to hold the office. His business was to determine just how much precious metal was in any sample of ore or old metal submitted, his word is final and his stamp of approval was accepted the world over. Upon his report mines were valued and prices set on metal in Wall street or in Europe. He was one of the most highly recognized assayers in the country, and the foremost treatises on gold and silver assaying had frequent footnotes referring to his work.
On May 15, 1915, at his home in Ambler, Pennsylvania, Mr. Eckfeldt was surprised by a party consisting of Mint officials, and employes of his own department, who thus celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the receipt of his first pay check from the Government, received May 15, 1865, his service having begun a month earlier. It was a matter of pride that all three of these Mint officials, Eckfeldt by name, grandfather, father and son, were born in Philadelphia, and their long years of service equaled four generations. One of the speakers at the "party" declared that "such loyalty to a job is unique, save among the emperors and kings." The friends were gathered about a table where, if tradition is true, President Washington sat and talked with Adam Eckfeldt, his coiner, in 1793. There were the various commissioners issued by the different Presidents and relics from the Old Seventh Street Mint, the first mint in the United States.
Mr. Eckfeldt was fond of automobiling and photography, these being his recreations.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 309.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 310.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 305.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 361.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 305, 310.