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| - | Charles Frederick Eggiman was one time mayor of [[Springfield]] between [[1921]] and [[1925]]. He died on Saturday, [[February 8]], [[1936]].
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| - | ==Register Guard, [[February 25]], [[2002]]==
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| - | Rain, snow or shine, [[Eggimans Candy Kitchen|Eggiman's Candy Kitchen]] at [[4th Street (Springfield)|Fourth]] and [[Main Street (Springfield)|Main streets]] in [[Springfield]] was a center of social activity from about [[1919]] through the 1940s. C.F. Eggiman served as mayor from [[1921]] to [[1925]].
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| - | The candy shop and soda fountain, seen here he candy shop and soda fountain, seen here in the mid-1920s, shipped candies throughout the state...
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| - | ==[[Springfield News]] [[February 13]], [[1936]]==
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| - | '''EGGIMANN RITES HELD TUESDAY'''
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| - | Community Mourne Passing Of Respected Citizen at Home on Saturday.
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| - | Was Spanish Veteran.
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| - | Former Mayor and Councilman Took Active Interest in All Civic Affairs.
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| - | Sorrowfully numbers of this community paid their last respects to Charles Frederick Eggiman Tuesday afternoon as they held funeral services for him at Poole's Springfield chapel and then buried him at [[Laurel Hill Cemetery]].
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| - | Mr. Eggiman passed away at his home here early Saturday morning. He had been ill for many months, but it was only a few hours before the end that his condition sudenly became worse and it was understood that he was leaving. He went quickly but... ...A stroke, paralysis, and then the end- he was gone.
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| - | Changed Name
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| - | A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana where he was born on [[July 10]], [[1875]], Mr. Eggiman, devoted his entire lifetime to the manufacture and sale of candy and confections. He was the son of American born Swiss parents who christened him Karl Frederico Ekkemann. He later adopted the Americanized spelling for his name.
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| - | He went to visit an aunt at Huntington, Indiana in [[1898]] when the Spanish American war brok. A company ws organized in that city and Mr. Eggimann was one of the first to volunteer. He... ...in Cuba as a supply master for the company.
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| - | Three years later he was working in a candy factory in Duluth, Minnesota, when he met and married Miss [[Eggiman, Myrtle McCann|Myrtle McCann]] on [[December 7]], [[1902]]
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| - | Two years later... their first candy store at ...Montana in [[1904]], later making ... where they had a store for eight years. They then spent 29 months in San Diego, seeking to improve Mrs. Eggiman's health and came to [[Springfield]] in [[1912]].
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| - | To Springfield in 1912
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| - | In October of that year they opened the candy store which they have operated continuously snce that time. Later they added a bakery department, but sold it many years ago. The candy store was moved to the preent location at [[4th Street (Springfield)|Fourth]] and [[Main Street (Springfield)|Main streets]] 15 years ago. This was the only time the store moved during the 23 years in business here.
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| - | During these years Mr. Eggimann developed a formula fora mentho cough drop which he patened and in the intervening years had built up a large market for them in most parts of the United States and in foreign countries as far away as China.
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| - | [[Category:Springfield residents (1900s)]] [[Category:Springfield mayors]]
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