Louis Eppinger, a well-to-do citizen of Jackson, was born in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, February 6, 1838, and came to the United States in 1851. He learned the barber's trade in Philadelphia and worked there and at New York City, until 1858, when he came to Jackson and established a shop here, which he has run successfully ever since, having the only first-class barber shop in the city. In 1861 he married Miss Margaret Wittman, who died in 1873, leaving two living children: John F. and Louis W. Mr. Eppinger is Democratic in politics, is a Mason and K. of L. He has been very successful in business, owning the property in which he does business, and is also owner of two good residences, and in 1886 erected a large two-story brick building on the corner of Market and College Streets, which is used as a K. of L. hall above; and his son, John F., uses the first floor, in which he conducts a first-class bakery and confectionery.

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