 Several years later, the company applied for a post office for their town and learned that a town in Centre County had already appropriated the name.As a result, the town was renamed Eckley in 1857 in honor of Judge Coxe's eldest son, Eckley B. Coxe who was then 17 years old.In later years, Eckley Coxe, an engineer, became involved in the operations in the town of his name.