The Biographical Record, Ogle County, 1899.
John Beck, a retired farmer living on section 33, Woosung township, is a well-known German farmer who had made a success in life. He was born in Hessen, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1822, and is the son of John and Elizabeth Beck, both natives of the same country. They were the parents of one son, our subject, and one daughter, Katherine, who is now deceased. The wife and mother dying, he was again married, and by the second union there were five children, of whom two are yet living - Leonard, on the old home farm in Tazewell county, Illinois, and Elizabeth, now the wife of Jacob Meyers, a retired farm of Pekin, Illinois.
John Beck, Sr., was shoemaker by trade, which occupation he followed in his native land. In 1832 he came to the United States and first located in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1845, working at his trade. Saving some money, he came to Illinois and settled in Tazewell county, where he secured one hundred and sixty acres of land and spent the remainder of his life as a farmer. He died in 1881 at the age of eighty-five years...
John Beck, a retired farmer living on section 33, Woosung township, is a well-known German farmer who had made a success in life. He was born in Hessen, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1822, and is the son of John and Elizabeth Beck, both natives of the same country. They were the parents of one son, our subject, and one daughter, Katherine, who is now deceased. The wife and mother dying, he was again married, and by the second union there were five children, of whom two are yet living - Leonard, on the old home farm in Tazewell county, Illinois, and Elizabeth, now the wife of Jacob Meyers, a retired farm of Pekin, Illinois.
John Beck, Sr., was shoemaker by trade, which occupation he followed in his native land. In 1832 he came to the United States and first located in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1845, working at his trade. Saving some money, he came to Illinois and settled in Tazewell county, where he secured one hundred and sixty acres of land and spent the remainder of his life as a farmer. He died in 1881 at the age of eighty-five years...
The Biographical Record, Ogle County, 1899.
John Beck, a retired farmer living on section 33, Woosung township, is a well-known German farmer who had made a success in life. He was born in Hessen, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1822, and is the son of John and Elizabeth Beck, both natives of the same country. They were the parents of one son, our subject, and one daughter, Katherine, who is now deceased. The wife and mother dying, he was again married, and by the second union there were five children, of whom two are yet living - Leonard, on the old home farm in Tazewell county, Illinois, and Elizabeth, now the wife of Jacob Meyers, a retired farm of Pekin, Illinois.
John Beck, Sr., was shoemaker by trade, which occupation he followed in his native land. In 1832 he came to the United States and first located in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1845, working at his trade. Saving some money, he came to Illinois and settled in Tazewell county, where he secured one hundred and sixty acres of land and spent the remainder of his life as a farmer. He died in 1881 at the age of eighty-five years...
John Beck, a retired farmer living on section 33, Woosung township, is a well-known German farmer who had made a success in life. He was born in Hessen, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1822, and is the son of John and Elizabeth Beck, both natives of the same country. They were the parents of one son, our subject, and one daughter, Katherine, who is now deceased. The wife and mother dying, he was again married, and by the second union there were five children, of whom two are yet living - Leonard, on the old home farm in Tazewell county, Illinois, and Elizabeth, now the wife of Jacob Meyers, a retired farm of Pekin, Illinois.
John Beck, Sr., was shoemaker by trade, which occupation he followed in his native land. In 1832 he came to the United States and first located in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1845, working at his trade. Saving some money, he came to Illinois and settled in Tazewell county, where he secured one hundred and sixty acres of land and spent the remainder of his life as a farmer. He died in 1881 at the age of eighty-five years...
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