WI BIO - Eau Claire Co - RECKER, Val

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 344

Val RECKER, bookkeeper, Northwestern Lumber Company, was born 11 March 1842 
in Dayton [Montgomery County], Ohio. His parents came to Ohio from Baltimore 
[City of Baltimore], Maryland. His [Val RECKER's] father, Frederick RECKER, 
died in December 1842. Val RECKER enlisted 05 Aug 1862 in Dayton [Montgomery 
County, Ohio] in Company A, 93rd Ohio, Colonel ANDERSON commanding. Mr. 
RECKER was mustered out on 08 July 1865, and was in the Veteran Reserve Corps 
in Indiana in 1865.

In 1869 he [Val RECKER] moved to Spring Hill, Johnson County, Kansas. He 
kept books for J. C. Rodgers & Company in Spring Hill for ten years. In 
March 1881 he came to Porterville [Eau Claire County, Wisconsin] and took 
present his position. [Porterville was also called Porters Mills, and was 
located on the Chippewa River near Eau Claire. It was a growing community in 
1876, and booming in 1891, but after the lumber was gone and the Northwestern 
Lumber Company dismantled its mills and sold its company houses, the 
population moved away. Former residents held a reunion at the ghost town of 
Porterville in 1919.]

On 10 August 1866 in Middletown, Butler County, Ohio, he [Val RECKER] was 
married to Miss Kate COONS. He has had [Val and Kate (COONS) RECKER have 
had?] five children, of which three survive: Doc F., Fanny, and Tillie. 
[Submitter did not search for evidence from primary or other records to 
support the assumption that all five were the children of Val and Kate 
(COONS) RECKER.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly