Maynard Eckle
Prominent as a successful farmer, public official and progressive citizen of Madison township, Fayette county, Ohio, is Maynard W. Eckle. He is a man of great energy and determination and has attained a definite degree of success along agricultural lines. As trustee of Madison township, he is giving his fellow citizens conscientious and efficient service and is attending closely to all of the details of this office. Mr. Eckle has an interesting side line from which he derives no small part of his annual income. For several years he has followed the auctioneering business throughout his county and neighboring counties, and has met with a marked measure of success along this particular line of activity.
Maynard W. Eckle. the son of William and Clara (Holland) Eckle, was born in Marion township, this county, July 26, 1880. His father was a native of Highland county, this state, and was the son of Jacob and Ellen (Hudwell) Eckle. He came to Fayette county when a young man. Jacob Eckle and wife always lived in Highland county, where they are now buried. William Eckle is a prominent retired farmer now living in Union township, this county. near Washington C. H. He and his wife reared a family of five children: Ernest, who married Mattie Stewart: Pearl, who married Margaret Fulton; Ora, who married W. E. Gwinn, [actually Worley Edward Grim]now deceased; Hazel, who is still living with her parents, and Maynard W., whose history is here presented.
Maynard W. Eckle was educated in the district schools of Union township, and later attended school in Dayton, Ohio, where he completed his educational training. He married at the age of twenty, and at once began farming for himself on a farm of one hundred and forty acres six miles northwest of Bloomingburg. As a farmer he is one of the most progressive in the county and divides his attention between the raising of crops and the handling of live stock, with the result that he has the satisfaction of seeing his farm yield satisfactory returns each year. During the spring and fall he acts as auctioneer for farm and stock sales of all kinds throughout this and adjoining counties. He has met with a degree of success along this line, which indicates that he is a man of ability as an auctioneer.
Mr. Eckle was married July 12. 1900, to Ona Grimm, the daughter of James Madison and Alice (Beal) Grimm. Her parents were killed in a railroad accident January 28, 1913, at Haines' Crossing. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Eckle, Clarence, Opal, Louis and Leo.
Politically, Mr. Eckle is a stanch Republican and has always been interested in local politics. At the present time he is the trustee of Madison township, as well as clerk of the White Oak school board, and in both capacities he renders efficient service to those he serves, and is well deserving of the high regard which is accorded him by his fellow citizens. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Eckle is a young man of great promise and is a valuable asset to the community in which he lives. He lends his hearty influence to all worthy measures and thus is eminently deserving of a place among the representative men of his township and county.
From History of Fayette County Ohio - Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frank M. Allen (1914, R. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.)