Henry Eschle was born January 7, 1829, in Germany.

The 1857 Minnesota census showed Henry E. Etchele (age 27, born in Germany) married to Mary (age 26, born in Germany) and living in Township 116, Range 23, Carver County, Minnesota. Children Henry (age 1, born in Minnesota), Henriette (age 1, born in Minnesota), and Rosaline (age 9 months, born in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.              

Page 62. In accordance with the terms of this act an election was held for delegates to the constitutional convention, on the first Monday in June, 1857.

Page 62. The convention was composed of the following gentlemen: Republican wing, assembled July 13, dissolved August 29…

Page 63. …Henry Eschlie… (Compendium of History and Biography of Central and Northern Minnesota, Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1904)

The 1860 Minnesota census showed Henry Eschle (age 30, born in Germany, farmer) married to Maria (age 30, born in Germany) and living in Chaska, Carver County, Minnesota. Children Henry (age 4, born in Minnesota), Henriette (age 4, born in Minnesota), Rosalia (age 3, born in Minnesota), and Mathilda (age 1, born in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.

Eschle Henry, ss. Eagle, nr. Seven Corners (St. Paul Census Report and Statistical Review, Richard Edwards, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1873, Page 472)

Hon. Henry Eschle, of St. Paul, and formerly a prominent citizen of this county, is reported very ill at his residence in St. Paul, with Dropsy. In early days Mr. E., represented this County in the Legislature, and was one of our leading politicians. His many friends in this county wish him a speedy recover. (The Weekly Valley Herald, Thursday, July 19, 1877, Page 4)

Henry Eschle died August 19, 1877, in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota.

Hon. Henry Eschle of St. Paul, and formerly a citizen of Chanhassen, this county, died at his residence in St. Paul on Sunday last. His family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in this county. (The Weekly Valley Herald, Thursday, August 23, 1877, Page 4)

Mr. Eschly was engaged in farming at the time of his election which he conceived was better business than dabbling in County politics, and therefore declined to accept the office after having been elected. Wise man! It is thought by some, that since that day times or men have changed. Mr. Eschly removed a few years after to St. Paul where he was largely engaged in the business of building and contracting until about two years ago when he died. He was a man held in high esteem by all who knew him. (The Weekly Valley Herald, Thursday, May 1, 1879, Page 1)

…Henry Eschley on the east half of the east half of section 3… (History of the Minnesota Valley, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, Rev. Edward D. Neill, North Star Publishing Company, Minneapolis, MN, 1882, Page 358)

…Henry Eschley, register of deeds (fall of 1855); John Lyon, clerk and J. A. Sargent, county attorney, were appointed at first meeting of the board of commissioners. Eschley not qualifying… (History of the Minnesota Valley, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, Rev. Edward D. Neill, North Star Publishing Company, Minneapolis, MN, 1882, Page 353)

The first election took place at the office of T. D. Smith, May 11, 1858: T. D. Smith, moderator; C. S. Wright, clerk. The following officers were elected: Frederick Greiner, chairman; Henry Eschley and B. Soice, supervisors… (History of the Minnesota Valley, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, Rev. Edward D. Neill, North Star Publishing Company, Minneapolis, MN, 1882, Page 358)

Louis A. Eschle. Louis A. Eschle is a man of unusual enterprise and initiative and has met with such marvelous good fortune in his various business projects that it would verily seem as though he possessed an open sesame to unlock the doors to success. Self-made in the most significant sense of the word, he has progressed steadily toward the goal of success until he is recognized as one of the foremost business men and citizens of Butte, where he has resided since 1888, and where he conducts one of the finest and best equipped plumbing establishments in the entire state. A native of the fine old Gopher state of the Union, Louis A. Eschle was born in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, the date of his nativity being the 22nd of September. 1866. He is a son of Henry and Mary (Wey) Eschle, both of whom were born and reared in Germany, whence they immigrated to America. Henry Eschle was one of the early settlers in St. Paul, Minnesota, having come to that place when it was populated by not more than half a dozen white men. He was a contractor and builder of note and figured prominently in public affairs. He was a soldier in many of the Indian wars of early Minnesota and at the time of the inception of the Civil war gave evidence of his intrinsic loyalty to the cause of the Union by enlisting as a soldier, in the Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. He served through the entire period of the war and participated in many of the most important engagements marking the progress of the war, having been several times wounded. He was summoned to the life eternal in 1881, at the age of fifty-six years. Mrs. Eschle came to St. Paul when young and there was solemnized her marriage; she passed away in 1909, at the age of seventy-six years. The seventh in order of birth in a family of ten children, Louis A. Eschle received his early educational training in the public schools of St. Paul. At the age of thirteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to learn the plumber’s trade in the shop of Wilson & Rogers, at St. Paul, the largest plumbing concern west of Chicago. He served an apprenticeship of six years and during that time mastered the business in all its branches, becoming an expert plumber, gas and steam pipe fitter. He was employed in the shop of Wilson & Rogers for three years as a journeyman and in 1886 he came to Montana, locating first in the city of Helena, where he secured a position with the plumbing concern of Dutton & O’Brien. He remained with the latter concern for one year and then was in the employ of Stark & Brown for one year, at the expiration of which he decided to open a plumbing shop of his own. Coming to Butte, in 1888, he established his present business, beginning in a modest way and gradually spreading out the scope of his operations until he now does business throughout the state. His success is due entirely to his own persistency and well directed endeavors and as such is the more gratifying to contemplate. In connection with his work he is a valued and appreciative member of the Master Plumbers Association. At Helena, Montana, in November, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Eschle to Miss Ida S. Ganote, who was born and reared at Jeffersonville, Indiana, who is a daughter of George Ganote, a representative citizen at Union Store, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Eschle are the parents of two daughters, Juanita and Lulu, both of whom are attending school at Butte. In his political proclivities Mr. Eschle is aligned as a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party. He has no time for active participation in public affairs but is ever ready to do all in his power to advance the general welfare of his home community. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World. Mr. Eschle is exceedingly fond of the national game of baseball and at one time played on a nine at Butte. He is popular with all classes of people and by reason of his exemplary life and fair and honorable dealings is accorded the unalloyed confidence and high regard of his fellow citizens. (The History of Montana, Volume 3, Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1913, Page 1329)