The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 524
A portrait of Arment P. Eschbach appears in this publication.

ARMENT P ESCHBACH.

Arment P. Eschbach is now living retired in Yakima but for a considerable period
was actively identified with ranching interests in the valley and achieved
success through close application and indefatigable energy-a success that now
enables him to rest from further labor. Mr. Eschbach is a native of Alsace,
France. He was born March 31, 1850, in a region which in the World war was
traversed by the contending armies, its beauty and resourcefulness being
despoiled by Germany's ruthless depredations. He is a son of John P. and Mary
(Beddinger) Eschbach, who on coming to the new world, crossed the continent as
far as Washington county, Iowa, where they took up their abode. Their home was
forty-five miles from Burlington, which was their nearest market. The family
cast in their lot with the pioneer settlers of the district in which they lived
and shared in the hardships and privations of frontier life. They remained
residents of Iowa until 1856 and then went to Mankato, Blue Earth county,
Minnesota, where they resided until 1884, when they removed to Washington. In
this state John P. Eschbach spent his remaining day. His first wife died in
October, 1856, and he afterward married Barbara Sugg, a native of New York, who
passed away in Yakima in 1916, at the advanced age of eighty-five years.

Arment P. Eschbach acquired a public school education in Minnesota and there
carried on farming to the age of thirty-one, when he married and removed to the
Pacific coast. It was in the fall of 1881 that he reached the city of Yakima and
soon afterward he purchased farm land on the Naches, acquiring one hundred and
sixty acres, which he devoted largely to the raising of hay and stock. As the
years passed he developed an excellent property, upon which he made his home
until 1917. He then retired and took up his abode in Yakima, where he is now
enjoying well-earned rest. The years that passed were years of intense and well
directed activity. He worked strenuously in the development of his farm and as
time passed on he harvested good crops, for which he found a ready and
profitable sale on the market, being able to add year by year to his savings.

On the 19th of September, 1881, Mr. Eschbach was married to Miss Rosa Mosser, a
native of Minnesota, who had been his schoolmate in childhood. They have become
the parents of a large family, namely: Josephine, now the wife of Frank Kreskey,
living at Moxee City and by whom she has three daughters and four sons; Edward
A., who married Irene Sandmeyer and they have three children and reside upon his
father's old farm. which he has purchased; Rose, deceased, who was the wife of
Charles Bartlett, an hydraulic engineer of Olympia, by whom she had two
daughters: Leona, the wife of Bud Bartlett, a civil engineer, and they have
three children; Levina, who is a trained nurse: Olivia, who is engaged in
teaching school; Eugenia, attending business college in Yakima; and John H., who
was the third in order of birth and who died at the age of six years.

Mr. Eschbach and his family are communicants of St. Joseph's Catholic church, in
the work of which he has always taken an active and helpful interest. His
political allegiance is given to the democratic party. For many years he
successfully- followed farming and his life record illustrates what can be
accomplished by determined, individual effort, for he started out empty-handed
and his success has come to him as the merited reward of persistent and earnest
labor.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.