San Diego County Biographies
 
W. H. C. ECKER

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Of Coronado, was born near Allegheny, Allegheny County,  Pennsylvania, May 6, 
1849. When four years old he went with his parents to Gallipolis, Gallia County, 
Ohio, where he improved the advantages of an academic education, later attending 
the Law School in Cincinnati, graduating in 1874. He then returned to Gallipolis,
where he practiced law until 1887, when on account of poor health his attention 
was turned to California, and he came out in February of that year, spending 
nine months at San Jose.
        In December of that year he came to San Diego and, the climate being 
beneficial, opened an office and resumed the practice of his profession in 
general law. He is a resident of Coronado and is deeply interested in the 
welfare of the city of San Diego. As to climatic influences, although living at 
sea level he experiences no dampness therefrom ; and he finds the sea breezes of 
the Pacific extremely soothing and healing to his particular trouble of throat 
and bronchial tubes and asthma. He is a member of the Rose Commandery, No. 43, 
of Gallipolis, Ohio.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  301-302