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Charles Hecker
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biography
Charles
Hecker owned the Kremis Milling Company. In 1888, it produced 50 barrels
of flour in 24 hours
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CHARLES HECKER, general
manager and treasurer of the Kremis Milling Company, post-office Kremis,
was born in Seneca County, N. Y., February 14, 1828. He is a son of Daniel
and Catherine (Haas) Hecker,
natives of Lehigh County, and who removed to Seneca County, N.Y., after
marriage. Mrs. Catherine Hecker died in
1828, and was the mother of Stephen, Daniel, Joseph
and Charles. The father was again
married, and had the following children: Franklin,
Levi, and Mary, the widow of Edwin
Hoffman. Daniel
Hecker removed to Mercer County in 1839, and died in August, 1886,
at the age of ninety-three years. His last wife died in 1883, at the
age of seventy-seven years. Mr. Hecker was a justice of the peace
for Delaware Township for fifteen years, a prominent member of the German
Reformed Church, and in politics a stauch Republican. Our subject
was taught the carpenter's trade, and for fifteen years was engaged in
that business. He then established himself in the lumber business
and farming. In 1883 he organized the Kremis Milling Company, and is
its treasurer and general manager. The mill is a prominent industry
of Delaware Township, and its capacity is fifty barrels of flour in
twenty-four hours. He is also extensively engaged in farming, and is
one of the stockholders of the Kremis Co-operative Store. Mr. Hecker
is an energetic businessman, enjoying the confidence and esteem of the
people of the county. He is a member of the P. of H., Delaware
Grange 463, also of the Reformed Church of Delaware Township. In
politics, he is a Republican. He married, in 1849, Caroline,
daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth
Reinhart, early settlers of Delaware Township, and to them have
been born a family of four children: George
W., Henry D., Lizzie, wife of William Limber,
and James E., manager of the Kremis
Co-operative Store.
from History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 916-917 |
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