- ANDREW JACKSON TRICKEL, for many years one of the representative
citizens of Clarno
- township, Green county, was born Sept. 10, 1825, at Butler's
Point, Vermilion Co., Ill. Robert TRICKEL, his father, a native
of Hampshire county, West Virginia, came to Illinois in the early
settlement of the state, having first migrated to Ohio, then
to Indiana, and later to Illinois. He was a farmer by occupation,
and became a factor in the frontier life of all those States.
His death took place in Wisconsin, at the advanced age of nearly
eighty-two years. He married Mary C. BENSYL, who died at the
age of eighty-two. The children born of their marriage were:
Polly, who married Riley CURRY; Ashford; William; John; Andrew
Jackson, our subject; Jesse; Joshua, a resident of the State
of Washington; Robert, who resides in Colorado; and Edward, who
lives in Browntown, Wisconsin.
- Andrew Jackson TRICKEL is a self-made man, his early educational
advantages having been
- confined to one month's schooling. Reared on a farm, he settled
in Green county in 1850, and soon became thoroughly identified
with farming interests, and by his own industry has accumulated
the competency he now enjoys. He was considered one of the most
substantial agriculturists of his locality, owning some 700 acres
of fine land, located in both Clarno and Cadiz townships. Much
of this land was wild when it came into his possession, and the
Indians still roamed through it. Since April, 1901, Mr. TRICKEL
has resided in the city of Monroe.
- Mr. TRICKEL was married, in 1848, to Elizabeth CROTHERS,
a native of Ten Mile Grove, Ill.,
- who was a daughter of John CROTHERS. Two children were born
of this union: John C., deceased; and Mary C., who married Elias
FRAME, of California. Mrs. Elizabeth TRICKEL lived but a few
years, and in 1857 our subject married Mrs. Charlotte (MORTON)
HUFFMAN, the children of this union being: Sarah Ellen, Jesse,
Charles, William Andrew, Laura E., Martha, Matilda, Louis, Charlotte,
Clara, Olive, Joseph, Albert, and Everett. Sarah E., Charlotte
and Everett are deceased. The two children of Mrs. TRICKEL by
her previous marriage were Mary Elizabeth and Nancy Jane. The
posterity of Mr. TRICKEL includes fifty-one grandchildren and
eleven great-grandchildren, all but four of whom are living.
- Born of a family of Democrats, Mr. TRICKEL advocates the
principles of that party, of which he
- has been an active member all his life. Travel and a wide
acquaintance have aided Mr. TRICKEL to become a very intelligent
man, despite his early disadvantages, and although seventy-six
years of age, he is mentally superior to many men in the prime
of life. A recent trip to California has benefited his health,
and his many friends and neighbors wish him a continued life
of prosperity. Among his associates he is highly esteemed, and
known to be exemplary character in all the relations of life.
During his long residence in Green county he has watched with
interest the many wonderful changes which have taken place in
his locality, and he has done his share in the progress made
in Clarno township.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 455-456.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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