Community-minded John A. Hecker

Community-minded John A. Hecker
In this 1949 photograph, John A. Hecker (center) is shown participating in the ceremony at Warrensville West Cemetary honoring the community's deceased Shakers with a memorial stone. Hecker, whose grandfather bought Jacob Strong's farm in 1853, served as a Shaker Heights Councilman from 1915 to 1947. In 1947, the year of his retirement from politics, he became one of the founding members of the Shaker Historical Society. | Source: Shaker Historical Society
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