Samuel Bechtel was born in Blair County, Pennsylvania, the eldest son of Daniel Bechtel. His parents brought him to Harrison Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, when he was a child. He was educated in the common schools of that township, "but being of a studious turn of mind, he was mainly self-educated, and his spare time being spent with his books."
"He was a man possessed of excellent business acumen, generous, true-hearted and hospitable instincts, and, being kind and sociable in disposition, he won numerous friends and rarely lost them."
Samuel married Miss Mary Myers in 1877. "After marriage she and her husband made their home in Goshen until 1884, when they moved to Nappanee and there resided until the death of Mr. Bechtel, when she returned with her children to Goshen. The children are named as follows:
* Daniel M., born November 12, 1878, attending school;
* Esther, born December 18, 1880;
* Joy G., born May 23, 1884;
* Samuel B., born June 30, 1886, and died September 13, 1887."
"When the tocsin of war sounded to arms during the late unpleasantness between the North and South our subject donned his suit of blue, shouldered his musket and August 13, 1862, enlisted in Company E, Seventy-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The only time he ever disobeyed his father was when he enlisted. He served until June 9, 1865, and was then discharged at Washington, D. C. He was a good and faithful soldier, participated in many battles and was wounded once in the hand."
Mr. Bechtel was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his brother Henry established the Farmers' and Traders' Bank of Nappanee, which Samuel operated successfully until his death. "Mr. Bechtel was a shrewd, far-seeing business man, a banker of the soundest judgment and a public spirited and progressive citizen. He made a good property and at the time of his death left a large estate of land and town property. He was accidentally killed in a gravel bank near Nappanee." [I do not know whether his death was in Elkhart or Kosciusko county.]
"Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana", Pages 538-39 (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers, 1893.)
"He was a man possessed of excellent business acumen, generous, true-hearted and hospitable instincts, and, being kind and sociable in disposition, he won numerous friends and rarely lost them."
Samuel married Miss Mary Myers in 1877. "After marriage she and her husband made their home in Goshen until 1884, when they moved to Nappanee and there resided until the death of Mr. Bechtel, when she returned with her children to Goshen. The children are named as follows:
* Daniel M., born November 12, 1878, attending school;
* Esther, born December 18, 1880;
* Joy G., born May 23, 1884;
* Samuel B., born June 30, 1886, and died September 13, 1887."
"When the tocsin of war sounded to arms during the late unpleasantness between the North and South our subject donned his suit of blue, shouldered his musket and August 13, 1862, enlisted in Company E, Seventy-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The only time he ever disobeyed his father was when he enlisted. He served until June 9, 1865, and was then discharged at Washington, D. C. He was a good and faithful soldier, participated in many battles and was wounded once in the hand."
Mr. Bechtel was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his brother Henry established the Farmers' and Traders' Bank of Nappanee, which Samuel operated successfully until his death. "Mr. Bechtel was a shrewd, far-seeing business man, a banker of the soundest judgment and a public spirited and progressive citizen. He made a good property and at the time of his death left a large estate of land and town property. He was accidentally killed in a gravel bank near Nappanee." [I do not know whether his death was in Elkhart or Kosciusko county.]
"Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana", Pages 538-39 (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers, 1893.)
Samuel Bechtel was born in Blair County, Pennsylvania, the eldest son of Daniel Bechtel. His parents brought him to Harrison Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, when he was a child. He was educated in the common schools of that township, "but being of a studious turn of mind, he was mainly self-educated, and his spare time being spent with his books."
"He was a man possessed of excellent business acumen, generous, true-hearted and hospitable instincts, and, being kind and sociable in disposition, he won numerous friends and rarely lost them."
Samuel married Miss Mary Myers in 1877. "After marriage she and her husband made their home in Goshen until 1884, when they moved to Nappanee and there resided until the death of Mr. Bechtel, when she returned with her children to Goshen. The children are named as follows:
* Daniel M., born November 12, 1878, attending school;
* Esther, born December 18, 1880;
* Joy G., born May 23, 1884;
* Samuel B., born June 30, 1886, and died September 13, 1887."
"When the tocsin of war sounded to arms during the late unpleasantness between the North and South our subject donned his suit of blue, shouldered his musket and August 13, 1862, enlisted in Company E, Seventy-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The only time he ever disobeyed his father was when he enlisted. He served until June 9, 1865, and was then discharged at Washington, D. C. He was a good and faithful soldier, participated in many battles and was wounded once in the hand."
Mr. Bechtel was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his brother Henry established the Farmers' and Traders' Bank of Nappanee, which Samuel operated successfully until his death. "Mr. Bechtel was a shrewd, far-seeing business man, a banker of the soundest judgment and a public spirited and progressive citizen. He made a good property and at the time of his death left a large estate of land and town property. He was accidentally killed in a gravel bank near Nappanee." [I do not know whether his death was in Elkhart or Kosciusko county.]
"Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana", Pages 538-39 (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers, 1893.)
"He was a man possessed of excellent business acumen, generous, true-hearted and hospitable instincts, and, being kind and sociable in disposition, he won numerous friends and rarely lost them."
Samuel married Miss Mary Myers in 1877. "After marriage she and her husband made their home in Goshen until 1884, when they moved to Nappanee and there resided until the death of Mr. Bechtel, when she returned with her children to Goshen. The children are named as follows:
* Daniel M., born November 12, 1878, attending school;
* Esther, born December 18, 1880;
* Joy G., born May 23, 1884;
* Samuel B., born June 30, 1886, and died September 13, 1887."
"When the tocsin of war sounded to arms during the late unpleasantness between the North and South our subject donned his suit of blue, shouldered his musket and August 13, 1862, enlisted in Company E, Seventy-Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The only time he ever disobeyed his father was when he enlisted. He served until June 9, 1865, and was then discharged at Washington, D. C. He was a good and faithful soldier, participated in many battles and was wounded once in the hand."
Mr. Bechtel was a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his brother Henry established the Farmers' and Traders' Bank of Nappanee, which Samuel operated successfully until his death. "Mr. Bechtel was a shrewd, far-seeing business man, a banker of the soundest judgment and a public spirited and progressive citizen. He made a good property and at the time of his death left a large estate of land and town property. He was accidentally killed in a gravel bank near Nappanee." [I do not know whether his death was in Elkhart or Kosciusko county.]
"Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana", Pages 538-39 (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers, 1893.)
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