Frank Echman
Frank Echman was born in Switzerland April 9, 1813, where he grew to manhood. In 1845 he emigrated to America and located in Wayne Co., Ohio, where he remained about two years, or until 1847, when he moved to Michigan, and located in Wayne Co., where on the 7th of January, 1849, he married Miss Margarct Chaivre, then of Wayne Co., Mich., but a native of France, where she was born April 27, 1830. Mr. and Mrs. Echman settled in Michigan, remaining until 1866, when they came to Shelby County and purchased and moved on the farm in the southwest quarter of section 12, on which they now reside. He has made farming his principal business. He served five years in the Swiss army. He reared a family of eight children, two sons and six daughters.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883