ECKEL & IMHOF
(1875-1877)

Frederick Eckel (1835-1898)
Herman Imhof (1847- ? )

Frederick Eckel was born in New York City on February 11, 1835 and died there on April 23, 1898. Frederick Eckel started his career in San Francisco in 1865 as a saleman. Extracts from Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 26, 1898 "Frederick Eckel attended Cooper Institute and graduated from there at an early age. When the Civil War broke out he went to the front and served three years on the Saranac, which at the time was in the Pacific squadron. After the war he entered the employ of Schuyler, Harvey and Graham in San Francisco, and for five years was the head of the department where civil engineers' and surveyors' instruments were manufactured. When he severed his connection with that firm he came to New York then purchased the firm of Blunt and Co. thus starting in business for himself, on Broadway, in the building where he was located at the time of his death. He was a veteran of the Fifth Company of the old Seventh Regiment, and was also a member of Lafayete Post, G.A.R., Dewitt Clinton Council, R.A., and the American Legion of Honor.


New York City directories:
1873-77 Eckel, Frederick, surveying insts. 16 Burling sl.
1875-76 Eckel & Imhof math insts. 16 Burling Slip,
1876-77 Eckel & Imhof surveying inst 16 Burling Slip.
1878-95 Eckel F & Co. math insts. 16 Burling sl.
1895-96 Eckel Fred surveyors insts. 101 Beekman
1896-97 Eckel Ferd h. Hotel Arlington B'klyn


The San Francisco directory of 1865 lists:
Eckel, Frederick, salesman 411 Sansom dwg. 162 Tehama.


The 1880 Federal Census of June New York City. Imhof, Herman age 33 born in Wurlemberg, Germany. Herman Imhof is first listed in the New York City directories in 1872-73 as an optician.


1873-74 Imhof, Herman, surveying instruments 16 Burling St.
1875-77 Eckel & Imhof, surveying insts 16 Burling St.
1877-1887 math inst and optician alternating Brooklyn directories,
1888-1894 Imhof, Herman, optician in Brooklyn.