RACINE BELLE CITY OF THE LAKES AND RACINE COUNTY WISCONSIN-ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME II Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

FANNY S. STONE Supervising Editor CHICAGO:
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1916
Contributed by Diane Kaye


John Sheckler
For twenty-seven years John Sheckler was actively identified with farming interests in Racine county, where he took up his abode in 1856. He was born in Germany in 1836 and after acquiring a common school education in that country came to the United States at the age of twenty years, hoping that he might enjoy the benefit by some of the advantages which he heard were offered in the new world to young men of enterprise and industry. He made his way at once to this county and took up the occupation of farming, in which he was actively engaged to the time of his demise, making his home in Mount Pleasant township, where he brought his fields to a high state of cultivation, transforming his land into a rich and productive tract.

In 1859 Mr. Sheckler was married to Miss Elizabeth Hansche, a daughter of Ernest and Katherina Hansche, who were early settlers of this county. Mr. And Mrs. Sheckler became the parents of seven children, namely: Ernest, Fred, Elizabeth, John, Minnie, William and George. In his political views Mr. Sheckler was a republican, supporting the party from the time he became a naturalized American citizen. His religious faith was evidenced in his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a believer in the public school system and for three years served on the school board, doing everything in his power to make the school in his district one which would be of value in preparing young people for life’s practical and responsible duties. He died on the 2d of January, 1883, at the comparatively early age of forty-seven years, but left a family to continue the good work which he had begun.