Frederick Reckert

    Frederick Reckert, cabinet-manufacturer and furniture dealer, is a native of Berkanfeld, Germany, his birth occurring June 24, 1822. He is the third in a family of five children born to Egnatz and Katharina (Liesar) Reckert, who were also natives of the old country, where they died.

After receiving the ordinary Germany common school education in youth, Frederick, at fourteen years of age, began learning the cabinet-maker's trade, at which he worked in his native town, also Hamburg, and Bremen, for a number of years. In 1851 he left the land of his birth and crossing the Atlantic found employment at his trade at Allentown, Pennsylvania, Louisville, Kentucky and New Albany, Indiana, until 1854, when he came to Boonville, where he has ever since resided. Here Mr. Reckert opened a shop and commenced cabinet-making. Beginning life a poor boy in a strange land without any capital, he has made life a success, financially, now owning the buildings in which he is doing business, a comfortable brick residence and desirable town lots.

    He is one of Boonville's substantial citizens, is a Republican in politics and he and wife are members of the German Methodist Episcopal Church. January 18, 1856, his marriage with Mina Loch was solemnized. To their union have been born ten children. Those yet living are Frederick; Caroline, who married Charles Schneider; Mina; Tillie; Lucy and Annie.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.