Anthony Eickhoff

Anthony Eickhoff

Anthony Eickhoff , born Gerhard Anton Eickhoff (born September 11, 1827 in Kaldewei , Benninghausen ; † November 5, 1901 in New York City ) was a German-American journalist, editor, author, lawyer, US Congressman from New York City, US -Treasury Auditor and Chief of the New York Fire Department .

He was married to Louise Elisa Neuenschwander, who immigrated to the USA from Switzerland. They were the parents of attorney Henry Eickhoff (1856-1933) and two daughters, and also the grandparents of attorney Henry Eickhoff, Jr. (1898-1954).

Youth in Germany and Immigration to the United States (1827–1848)

Anthony Eickhoff was born on the Kaldewei, a district of the Benninghausen community , today incorporated into Lippstadt .

His parents Caspar Eickhoff (1803–1867) and Maria Catharina Trockel (1803–1863) were farmers on the Kaldewei, still dependent on the Cistercian monastery Benninghausen (founded in 1240, secularized in 1804, serfdom revoked in 1809). After his school education he began to work as a teacher in Lippstadt and wrote radical writings in the period from March to 1847. He decided to emigrate to the USA and took the ship Itzstein & Welcker from Bremen on October 24, 1847 and reached New Orleans on January 6, 1848.

First employment and journalism in the United States 1848-1856

His first job was on the deck of a Mississippi steamship, later he became a teacher at a Jesuit school in St. Louis , Missouri , and studied law. He started working as a journalist at an early age, founded and wrote for several German-language newspapers in the Midwest. In St. Louis, he was the founder and editor of the St. Louis Newspaper in 1848 and 1849. In Dubuque, Iowa, he was the editor of The Northwestern Democrat, later called the Iowa State Newspaper, from 1849 to 1850. In Louisville , Kentucky , he was The Observer am Ohio, editorial 1850-1852. Ultimately he went to New York City: he was editor of The Evening Post 1852 and New York State Newspaper and Herald from 1854 to 1856. In 1855 he became an American citizen and practiced as a lawyer.

Political offices in New York State, in the US Congress and the Treasury Department (1863–1889)

In the American Civil War he served from 1863 as general commissioner for the supply of the New York troops. In 1864 he became a member of the New York State Assembly . In 1876 he was elected as a Democrat to the 45th Congress and represented the seventh constituency of New York State from March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1879 in the US House of Representatives , but was defeated in the election to the 46th Congress in 1878. Was later 5th Auditor for the United States Treasury Department from August 1, 1885 to May 17, 1889.

Public Offices in New York City 1889-1901

From 1874 to 1876 he was the official coroner in New York City. He was head of the New York Fire Department (Fire Commissioner) in 1889, reappointed until 1896 and then worked as a fire department auditor from 1898 until his death in 1901.

author

He was the author of a book on German immigration to the United States in German: In der Neue Heimath , published by the German Society of the City of New York / German Society of the City of New York, founded in 1784, published on the occasion of the 100th year of existence of the company.

Anthony Eickhoff died on November 5, 1901 in New York City and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery .

Works

• In the Neue Heimath: historical information about the German immigrants in all parts of the Union ; Steiger & Co., New York City 1st edition 1884, 2nd edition 1885; German
• Mexico. From a discussion in a German democratic association in New York ; 1865, New York City Library; German

Web links

• Anthony Eickhoff in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Anthony Eickhoff in the database of Find a Grave (English)

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• Church book of the Catholic community Benninghausen, 1827
• Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, ship Itzstein & Welcker, 1848
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 – present
• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 25, page 383; vol. 43, page 418
• Journalism in California by John P. Young, San Francisco, 1915, 263
• New York Times, Nov. 7, 1901, 9
• The New York Evening Sun, Nov. 7, 1901
• German-American Newspapers and Magazines, by Arndt and Olson, 1951

notes

1. ^ Double name of the newspaper only 1934 to 1991, before "Staats-Zeitung" and separate "Herold"