John Jacob Eckfeldt and Emma Berlin McMurray
Husband John Jacob Eckfeldt 1
Born: 30 Nov 1877 - Plymouth Valley, near Conshohocken, PA 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Jacob Bausch Eckfeldt ( - ) 3 Mother: Jeanette Rose Latch ( - ) 2
Marriage: 16 Jan 1908 4
Wife Emma Berlin McMurray 4 5
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Rev. Humphrey Ludwick McMurray (1850- ) 6 7 Mother: Elizabeth W. Jenkins ( - ) 1 5
Children
1 F Dorothy Johnson Eckfeldt 2
Born: 12 Oct 1913 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - John Jacob Eckfeldt
He was educated in the public school, finishing as valedictorian of the class of 1894, at Conshohocken High School. He then entered Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated, an honor man, June 15, 1898. A position was awaiting him as a mechanical engineer with Dravo Brothers, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and that position he filled until 1902. He then transferred his allegiance to the Latrobe Steel Company at Latrobe, serving in similar capacity. That company, known later as the Railway Street Spring Company, retained Mr. Eckfeldt at Latrobe until May, 1916, when he was transferred to the company's plant at Chicago Heights, Illinois, he then becoming superintendent of the entire plant. He possessed the mechanical sense of his forbears and an inherited power to analyze, direct and control.
1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 305.
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 309.
4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 305, 310.
5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 361.
6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 359.
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Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 303.
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