Friedrich Johann Bechly

Friedrich Johann Bechly (1807–1892) was patriarch of the Bechly family in America.

Personal life Friedrich Johann Bechly was born to Friedrich Georg Bechly (1778–1844) and Christina Krummrey (1779-1844) in Prenzlau, within the Uckermark region of what is now Brandenburg, Germany. and they had 14 children together. Eight of their children died as infants in Germany. Bechly died in 1892 and is buried in Wildwood Cemetery in Sheboygan, Wisconsin with his wife and four of his children.

Immigration to America

Friedrich Johann Bechly is the patriarch of the Bechly family in America. The first house was little more than a board shanty that used four equidistant trees that served as columns to which he used the sawmill lumber to build crude walls and a roof. Two of his children became involved in Sheboygan's thriving cigar industry in the late 1800s with son Ferdinand owning a cigar box factory, and son Charles owning the Charles Bechly Cigar Store on the corner of Eighth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Sheboygan City.