When Johannes Keckler was born on 25 May 1820, in Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Johann Abraham Keckler, was 29 and his mother, Maria Catherine Arendt, was 27. He married Rebecca Gorgas in 1858. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Wysox Township, Carroll, Illinois, United States for about 20 years and Chadwick, Carroll, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 13 April 1902, in Carroll, Illinois, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Chadwick Cemetery, Chadwick, Carroll, Illinois, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Historical Boundaries: 1839: Carroll, Illinois, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Altered form of German Kechler, an occupational name for a potter, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kachel ‘clay pot, tile’. Later it came to denote a stove fitter who built the typical Bavarian and Austrian tile stoves.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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