Oscar B. Eckart
Oscar B. Eckart, the popular
incumbent of the position of assistant cashier of the
Guttenberg State Bank, is proving an efficient and valued
coadjutor of his brother, John P. Eckart, who is the
cashier of the institution and who is made the subject of
individual mention on other pages of this work, in which
connection is given also brief record concerning his
parents, honored pioneer citizens of Clayton, county, the
information thus given rendering it unnecessary to repeat
the family data in the sketch here presented.
Oscar B. Eckart was born at Guttenberg, on the 5th of
December, 1884, and after having made good use of the
advantages afforded in the excellent public schools of
his native city he took a course of higher study in the
Iowa State Agricultural College, at Ames. After leaving
college he was for a time employed in the Guttenberg
State Bank, and in 1904 he went to the city of St. Louis,
Missouri, but after having there been employed a short
interval he made his way to Chicago, in which great
metropolis he passed nine months in the employ of Lyon
Brothers, engaged in the wholesale general merchandise
business. He then returned to Guttenberg, in the fall of
1905, where he has since served with marked efficiency as
assistant cashier of the Guttenberg State Bank, one of
the substantial financial institutions of Clayton county.
He is serving also as city treasurer, is a Republican in
politics, and is affiliated with the Fraternal Order of
Mystic Workers. On the 21st of November, 1912, Mr. Eckart
wedded Miss Irene Kathryn Bunke, daughter of Joseph F.
and Helen E. (Kriebs) Bunke. She was born in Omaha,
Nebr., Sept. 14, 1886, moving with her mother to Clayton
county when ten years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Eckart have
two children -- Dorothea Helen, who was born June 22,
1913; and Kathryn Ida, who was born October 20, 1915.
source: History of Clayton
County, Iowa; From The Earliest Historical Times Down to
the Present; by Realto E. Price, Vol. II; pg. 103
-submitted by S. Ferrall
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