When John Keckler was born on 17 January 1813, in Jackson Township, Knox, Ohio, United States, his father, Abraham Cackler, was 23 and his mother, Sarah Earlewine, was 23. He had at least 5 sons and 4 daughters with Rachel Sills. He lived in Bloomington, Muscatine, Iowa, United States for about 30 years. He died on 17 July 1899, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 86.
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JACKSON TOWNSHIP. In honor of General Andrew Jackson, the Commissioners, on the 4th of September, 1815, erected this township.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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