Husband Anthony H. Beck 1
Born: 16 Nov 1836 - Salem, Clarion Co, PA 2
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Father: George Beck ( - ) 2
Mother: Elizabeth Schotts (1816-1897) 2
Marriage: 1866 3
Wife Margaret Potter 4
Born: - Clarion Co, PA
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Died: 10 Apr 3
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Father: John Potter (1797- ) 5
Mother: Nancy Thompson ( -Bef 1898) 6
Children
• They had no biological children.
1 F Mrs. L. H. Frank 3
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Status: Adopted
Child-Par.Rel.: Father: Adopted, Mother: Adopted
General Notes: Husband - Anthony H. Beck
His father died when he was so young that he did not remember him.
He received but few school privileges and those in the schools of Salem, which he attended until fourteen years of age. Early in life he learned the carpenter's trade, and followed it for years. He also learned millwrighting, and, in 1856, patternmaking, which occupation he followed until the tocsin of war sounded, when he enlisted as a sergeant in Company H, 8th Penn. Res. Corps as a three-months' man; the company, however, was not accepted as such but was taken as a three-years organization. The command was assigned to the Army of the Potomac and performed good, and, at times, most thrilling service. Mr. Beck was in the various engagements in which his regiment participated. At the battle of Charles City Cross Roads June, 30, 1862, he received a gunshot wound in the face which shattered the left jaw. He was also wounded slightly in the left leg and side in other engagements. He rose from second sergeant to first lieutenant, being mustered out as such with the command at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia, May 18, 1864. On returning home on July 14th of that year, he raised a company to enter the service for ninety days, in the recruiting of which some of his associates joined another division and the company was filled up at Pittsburgh, and it was assigned to the 1st Penn. Inf., and designated as Company A, 100 days-service. Lieut. Beck was commissioned captain of the company, which instead of serving the specified time became a five-months' organization, being mustered out at Pittsburg in November, 1864. Capt. Beck then returned to Clarion County, and, at Cooksburg assisted in building a sawmill. For some years following the close of the war he was actively engaged in following carpentering and building, and during that time he erected many of the leading buildings of the county; among them were the Clarion Normal School Building, the "Jones House," and several of the church edifices. In 1873 he was elected sheriff of the county, and filled the position for upwards of three years. On retiring from office he engaged in the hotel business at Parker's Landing, then he kept the "Jones House" at Clarion. He was a genial and affable gentleman, and, perhaps, no one in the county enjoyed a larger acquaintance and was more favorably known.
Socially, he was a member of the I. O. O. F., being next to the oldest past grand of his lodge. He was also a member of the G. A. R. In politics he was a life-long Democrat. He served as chief of the fire department of Clarion.
General Notes: Wife - Margaret Potter
The source states that she died in 1860, but this is incorrect.