BIOGRAPHIES

Source:
History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Combination atlas map of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Strasburg, Ohio: Gordon Print.,
1875
359 pgs. L. H. Everts
 

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Hiram Eckman

HIRAM ECKMAN.  Dr. Hiram Eckman, the subject of this sketch, was the son of Heironimus and Elizabeth Eckman, whose nativity was Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  The Doctor was born in Liberty, Trumbull County, Ohio, Jan. 29, 1816.  His father and oldest brother served in the war of 1812, under General Harrison.  Young Hiram's advantages for education were limited, there being no free-school system in his boyhood days.  He attended about three months in the old log school-house, and at the age of fifteen left home, with a small bundle of clothing and three dollars, to seek his fortune.  He traveled on foot to Tuscarawas County, and, after staying a week with his brother, he walked to Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio.  There he entered into an arrangement with Dr. Daniel Tilden, since deceased, and Dr. William F. Kittridge, by which he was to attend their drug store in consideration of the use of their library and medical instruction.  At the expiration of a year he returned to Tuscarawas County, and continued his reading with his brother for two years longer.  In the winter and spring of 1834-35 he attended lectures at Cincinnati, following which he located in Trenton, not yet twenty years of age.      In October, 1837, he married Miss Lucinda Fries, of Trenton.  Of three children, two are still living; the eldest having been downed in the Tuscarawas River, in 1857, at the age of eighteen years.  Sarah M. is married to Robert Y. Benner, and resides near Trenton.  John is a widower, with one child, his wife having died in 1872.      Dr. Eckman graduated in medicine at Starling Medical College in 1859.  In response to the call of Governor Tod, for volunteer surgeons in teh field, he visited Pittsburg Landing a few days after the battle, and remained with the sick and wounded at that point, as well as Fort Donelson and Nashville, until all were properly cared for.  On his return home, he was appointed one of the Examining Surgeons of the 16th District, a position he held until the close of the Rebellion.      He is a self-made man; practical and honorable in his business dealings, and highly successful in his professional practice.  He has been fortunate, also, in the accumulation of property, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of the extended circle of his acquaintance. Source: Combination Atlas Map of Tuscarawas County, Ohio by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia – 1875 ~ Page

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