Eggiman, Charles F.

From Lane Co Oregon

Charles Frederick Eggiman was one time mayor of Springfield between 1921 and 1925. He died on Saturday, February 8, 1936.

Register Guard, February 25, 2002

Rain, snow or shine, Eggiman's Candy Kitchen at Fourth and 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.

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...

Springfield News February 13, 1936

EGGIMANN RITES HELD TUESDAY

Community Mourne Passing Of Respected Citizen at Home on Saturday.

Was Spanish Veteran.

Former Mayor and Councilman Took Active Interest in All Civic Affairs.

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.

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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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.

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.

Three years later he was working in a candy factory in Duluth, Minnesota, when he met and married Miss Myrtle McCann on December 7, 1902

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.

To Springfield in 1912

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 Fourth and Main streets 15 years ago. This was the only time the store moved during the 23 years in business here.

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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