Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Eichholtz, George M. June 21, 1849 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

GEORGE M. EICHHOLTZ,
one of the experienced and most successful teachers of Frankstown township
and Blair county, who has taught continuously for nearly a quarter of a
century, is a son of George and Eve (Lower) Eichholtz, and was born on Piney
creek, near Williamsburg, in Woodbury township, Blair county, Pennsylvania,
June 21, 1849. His paternal great-grandfather, John L. Eichholtz, came from
Germany, and settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he died. His
son, Charles Eichholtz (grandfather), was born in Lancaster county in 1779,
and came to Blair county, where he was engaged in farming near Williamsburg
until his death, in 1855, at seventy-six years of age. He married and reared
a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. One of these sons,
George Eichholtz (father), was born in Blair county in 1810, and followed
farming until his death, which occurred January 17, 1865, when in the
fifty-sixth year of his age. He was a democrat in politics, a member of the
Evangelical Lutheran church, and stood high in his community as a man, a
neighbor, and a citizen. In 1835 Mr. Eichholtz married Eve Lower, a daughter
of George Lower, who was born near Williamsburg, where he died in 1854, at
the ripe old age of seventy-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Eichholtz reared a
family of eight children, three sons and five daughters, all of whom are
living except one son. Mrs. Eichholtz, who was a consistent member of the
Evangelical Lutheran church, survived her husband until July 15, 1876, when
she passed away, in the sixtieth year of her age.
    George M. Eichholtz received his education in the common schools of
Frankstown and Martinsburg academy. Leaving the academy, he was employed for
several years in teaching during the winter and assisting his brother on the
farm during the summer. At the end of that time he purchased a part of his
present farm, and has continued in the profession of teaching until the
present time. 
    On August 6, 1874, Mr. Eichholtz was united in marriage to Ellen,
daughter of Thomas and Jane Loudon, of Piney creek, Woodbury township. To Mr.
and Mrs. Eichholtz have been born five children, three sons and two daughters:
Edward C.; Thomas L.; Dean L., who died March 2, 1885, aged six years; Katie
R.; and Lelia D.
    George M. Eichholtz is a republican in politics, and has served in
various township offices for sixteen successive years. He has been for many
years a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church of Williamsburg and of
Hollidaysburg, and at present of Geeseytown. He owns a part of a farm of
sixty acres of well improved land in Frankstown township, which he carefully
cultivates; but his greatest interest lies in his profession of teaching, and
the development of the physical, mental, and moral powers of the minds of his
pupils, whom he wishes to see grow up unto useful men and women. He has
taught for twenty-three years in the public schools, and his efficiency as a
teacher is attested by his employment in one school for eleven winters-a fact
that tells of ability, usefulness, and success more forcibly than any words of
deserved commendation could express.

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