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Thomas Eckert
Thomas Thompson Eckert (23 April 1825 – 20 October 1910) was an officer in the U.S. Army, Chief of the War Department Telegraph Staff from 1862–1866, United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1865–1867 and an executive at Western Union.
==Early life==
Thomas Thompson Eckert was born April 23, 1825 in St. Clairsville, Ohio. At a young age Eckert became interested in the use of the telegraph and the actions of Samuel F.B. Morse. Reading ''The National Intelligencer'' he became fascinated with the proceedings between Morse and Congress in which Morse was granted money to construct an experimental telegraph line.〔(David Homer Bates, ''Lincoln in the Telegraph Office'', New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, (1907) ), 124.〕 In 1847, after telegraph lines were built from New York to Washington D.C., Eckert decided to travel to New York in order to see the Morse telegraph in action and became an operator with the Morse Telegraph Company. Eckert then returned home to Ohio and learned how to telegraph. When Eckert returned home, he took a job as an operator at the Wade Telegraph Company, which was owned by J.H. Wade. While working as one of Wade's operators in Wooster, Ohio, in 1849 Eckert was appointed local postmaster as well.〔 Eckert combined these two jobs by connecting the telegraph wire to the post office. In 1852, Wade appointed Eckert to superintend the construction of a telegraph line between Pittsburg and Chicago on the Fort Wayne route. The lines under Eckert's management became part of the Union Telegraph Company, and his jurisdiction was substantially enlarged.〔〔
Eckert held this position as superintendent until 1859, when he moved to Montgomery County, North Carolina, to manage a gold mine.〔〔 In 1861, Eckert returned to Ohio to bring his wife Emma D. Whitney and his children to North Carolina.〔Bates, 125.〕 But upon returning to the mines, Eckert found he had been accused of being a Northern spy. When his case was heard before a judge, the judge acquitted Eckert due to lack of proof. After the case, Eckert and his family escaped back north to Cleveland with the help of influential friends in 1861.〔Bates, 129-130.〕
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