- WILLIAM ANDREW TRICKEL, the genial proprietor of the "Eagle
Hotel" of Browntown,
- Green county, is one of the enterprising and progressive
business men in the village. He is one of the fourteen children
of Andrew J. TRICKEL and his wife, Charlotte MORTON, and was
born Sept. 14, 1863.
- Andrew J. TRICKEL was born in Illinois Sept. 10, 1824, son
of Robert TRICKEL, who was a
- native of Virginia, and one of the pioneers of Illinois.
Mr. TRICKEL is now one of the wealthy farmers of Clarno township,
Green county. He is the father of sixteen children. He has been
twice married, and his first wife, Susan CROTHERS, bore them
two children, Sarah and John, the latter now deceased. His second
wife, Charlotte MORTON, was the mother of fourteen, namely: Sarah
Ellen, born Oct. 3, 1858; Jesse, Dec. 14, 1859; Charley, Feb.
28, 1861; William A., our subject; Laura E., April 11, 1865;
Martha, Dec. 4, 1867; Matilda, Oct. 10, 1868; Charlotte, Nov.
12, 1869; Louis, July 7, 1871; Clara, Nov. 26, 1872; Olive, November,
1874; Joseph, Nov. 19, 1876; Albert, Aug. 26, 1878; and Everet,
Aug. 25, 1885, all of whom are now living except Sara, Charlotte
and Everet.
- William A. TRICKEL received his literary training in the
common schools of Clarno township
- and engaged at work on his father's farm until he was twenty-one.
He then went to California, but after two years returned to the
East and purchased a sawmill at Rock Grove, Ill., later going
to Belleville, Dane Co., Wis., and thence to Blanchardville,
Lafayette Co., Wis., conducting mills in both places. In 1890
he came to Browntown, and for a year conducted a bar room, in
1891, taking charge of the "Eagle Hotel," which he
has since conducted with great success. The pleasant smile of
the proprietor has won for him many friends among the patrons
of the hotel, as well as from the townspeople, and he is one
of the most popular citizens of the village. In politics he is
a strong Democrat, and has served on the village board and as
school director since making his home in Browntown.
- Mr. TRICKEL was married March 4, 1886, to Miss Mary KEEHL,
who was born Dec. 31,
- 1866, a daughter of August and Minnie (BRIGHTSKEE) KEEHL,
natives of Germany who located in Green county in 1845. Three
children have been born to this union. Florence Elizabeth, March
6, 1887; Clarence Evert, Nov. 15, 1888; and Andrew Jackson, July
25, 1890.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; p. 800.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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