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.
History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 916-917
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