Biography of Levi Sechler, pages 543 / 544.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Levi Sechler, another of the prominent pioneers of Concord Township, is a 
native of Lehigh County, Pa., born June 26, 1812, a son of Jacob and Mary 
(Fusselman) Sechler, natives of Pennsylvania, of French and German descent.  
He was reared on a farm, receiving a common school education, and remained 
with his parents till after attaining his majority.  In 1837 he started for 
the West, and with the exception of crossing the lakes made the entire 
journey to De Kalb County on foot, being nearly four weeks on the way.  He 
entered eighty acres of land in the wilderness, and during the summer helped 
his brother clear and improve a piece of land.  The following fall he walked 
back to his native county and remained there till 1853, when he returned to 
De Kalb County and began to improve his land.  He had added to his first 
entry, and now has a fine farm of 100 acres all under cultivation.  He was 
married in February, 1839, to Mary Kistler, a native of Lehigh County, Pa., 
and to them have been born eleven children---Catherine, William (deceased), 
James, Levi, Jacob, Mary, Emma, Henry, Franklin, Susan, and Rosetta.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Sechler are members of the German Reformed church.  In politics 
he and his sons cast their suffrage with the Democratic party.

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