Mount Mora Cemetery - Saint Joseph, Missouri

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Record Last Updated On: 6/4/2021
Name: EDMOND JACQUES ECKEL
Death Date: DEC/12/1934	Interment Date: DEC /14/1934		Birth Date: JUN/22/1845
Age at Death: 89	Cause of Death:
Location at Death: St. Joseph, MO
Physical Location at Death: Family home 1324 North 25th street
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Occupation: ARCHITECT The Secret of Success, "The secret of success is in the energy and perseverance of the will."
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Child of: Phillip & Louise Eckel.
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Other Known Relatives: Sons George R. and Edmond G. Eckel
Brief Biography: (From "Missouri Digital Heritage") For sixty-five years, Edmund Eckel was the leading architect in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was born 1845 in Strasburg, Alsace, France and studied in Paris at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts. He arrived in St. Joseph in 1869. Immediately impressed by the post-Civil War building activity he saw, he decided to settle and work there rather than continuing on to Kansas City as originally planned. During his career, he and his associates designed approximately 75% of the city's buildings. The Eckel and Aldrich Architectural Firm organized in 1910, consisting of Edmund, his son George, and Will S. Aldrich. This talented and prolific firm designed dozens of buildings in St. Joseph, across Missouri, and in surrounding states. Their designs included schools, residences, churches, hospitals, businesses, government buildings and banks. The Eckel and Aldrich firm was one of only two Missouri firms in the final group of ten architects involved in the competition to design the new Missouri State Capitol. Their design finished second to the New York architectural firm of Tracy and Swartwout. The firm, later known as Brunner and Brunner, is credited with designing Columbia, Missouri's Municipal Building; Union Station in Hannibal, Missouri; St. Louis City Hall; the National Biscuit Company plant in Los Angeles; Council Bluffs, Iowa Courthouse and Jail and St. Joseph's own City Hall.
Epithet: Chief local architect during the prolific building years following the Civil War. Mr. Eckel, along with partners, designed approximately seventy-five percent of the city's major buildings. The Eckel firm also designed several of the mausoleums at Mount Mora.

Tombstone Material: N/A	Tombstone Shape: N/A		Tombstone Condition: N/A
Vault Type:	Burial Number: 11227
Mausoleum: N	Ashes: N
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Lot Owner: EDMOND JECKEL
Lot Location: N1/2 FRAC 1
Block Location: 7
Section/Range Location: C
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Cost of Interment: 12.00		Date Paid: 12/31/34

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Edmond J Eckel Courtesy Of:Bob Brown Jr. Edmond J Eckel and employees Courtesy Of:Bob Brown Jr. Edmond J Eckel holding Bob Brown Jr. with Margaret Agnew & Minnie Eckel Courtesy Of:Bob Brown Jr.

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(From "Missouri Digital Heritage")

Chief local architect during the prolific building years following the Civil War. Mr. Eckel, along with partners, designed approximately seventy-five percent of the city's major buildings. The Eckel firm also designed several of the mausoleums at Mount Mora.