Eckhardt, Dr. Charles

Submitted by Mike Miller A dentist who has built up and holds one of the most select practices in New Orleans is Dr. Charles Eckhardt of 348 Magazine street. The parents of Dr. Eckhardt were born in Bavaria, Germany, but the Doctor is a native of New Orleans, where he made his advent in the world October 3, 1856. He attended the public schools of the city, and at the age of fourteen years, he was promoted to the New Orleans high school, from which institution he graduated in 1875. In the latter part of the same year he began the study of dentistry under a private preceptor, and two years later attached himself to the office of Dr. C. K. Kells and remained under his instruction for one year, leaving it to enter what was then known as the Maryland College of Dental Surgery at Baltimore, where he studied during the term of 1878 and 1879, and the Maryland college having been merged with the Baltimore Dental college he received in the year last-mentioned diplomas from both institutions at the same time. Returning to New Orleans he has since lived there and given his attention devotedly and with much success to the practice of his profession. He is a member, and was at the time of, and for several years after its reorganization, secretary of the Louisiana State Dental society. He is and has been secretary of the Board of Dental Examiners of the state of Louisiana since 1882. He is also a member and ex-president of the New Orleans Odontological society. He takes a prominent part in the proceedings of this association, and has given it the benefit of various papers of professional interest, which mark him as one of the best informed dental surgeons in the state. He was married in 1878 to Miss Elizabeth Hungesser of New Orleans.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 397. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.