Johann Friedrich Christoph BECKER

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View Record Friedrich Buker abt 1847 21 Apr 1854 Hamburg, Germany German North America

View Record Henrich Buker abt 1848 21 Apr 1854 Hamburg, Germany German North America

View Record Maria Buker abt 1822 21 Apr 1854 Hamburg, Germany German North America

View Record Friedr Buker abt 1817 21 Apr 1854 Hamburg, Germany German North America

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View Record Sophie Becker abt 1831 21 Apr 1854 Hamburg, Germany German North America

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View Record Henrich Niemann abt 1838 21 Apr 1854 Hamburg, Germany German North America

BECKER, Henry. The father of this gentleman, Frederick Becker, was one of the earliest settlers of Greenville township, Outagamie county, and was honored as one of its representative pioneers. Frederick Becker was a native of Germany, where he followed farming, owning a small piece of ground, and was there married to Mary Neamann. They had two children born to them in Germany, Fred (who is now a resident of Appleton, Wis.), and Henry (our subject) and on March 1, 1854, this little family left Hamburg on the sailing vessel "North America," landed in New York eight weeks later, and came directly to Fond du Lac county, Wis., where they made a brief stay. They soon removed to Greenville township, Outagamie county, where Mr. Becker had bought land in the N. W. Quarter of Section 15, and he also purchased a yoke of oxen to assist him in clearing the land, which was all new and heavily timbered. He had no wagon, but he contrived to make a dray of ironwood trees, and with this outfit commenced to clear away the timber and prepare the ground for crops. He succeeded, not only in putting the whole of his first purchase under cultivation, but added another 160 acres, at the time of his death ranking among the first farmers and most extensive landholders in Greenville township. He was a self-made man in the true sense of the word, for he accumulated all his property from a start of nothing, and he was respected wherever known. Though the welfare and advancement of the region where he held such large interests was necessarily of great importance to him, he cared nothing for public life, and though always willing to give his approval and co-operation to any worthy undertaking, he never held but one office, that of overseer of the township. in political sympathy he was a Democrat. Mrs. Mary Becker died in Greenville township, June 4, 1859, leaving four children: two above mentioned. and two born in Greenville township - Louis, a farmer of Greenville township, and Eliza (nowMrs. Daniel Schultz). The mother was buried in Greenville cemetery. Mr. Becker subsequently married Mary Mormon, and two children were born to that marriage, both of whom died young. Mr. Becker was called to his long home February 16, 1893, and sleeps his last sleep in Greenville cemetery. He was a devoted member of the Lutheran Church, to which he gave a liberal support, and he donated an acre of ground for a church site. Henry Becker was born in August 1846, in Germany, and received a greater part of his schooling in that country, prior to his parents' removal to America, the public-school system in Wisconsin being at that time in its infancy. Up to the age of nineteen years he lived at home, and then commenced to work at the carpenter's trade, for four winters also following lumbering. On July 17, 1869, he was married in Ellington township, to Christina Pluger, who was born in Germany in 1850, daughter of August Pluger, and to this marriage have been born eight children, as follows: Mary, Mrs. Otto Zwerg, of Sheboygan county, Wis.; Louis, also of Sheboygan county; and Eliza, Henry, Bernard, Caroline, Willie and Mina, all at home. With the exception of the six years he followed carpentry at Stephensville, Mr. Becker has been a life-long farmer, and in connection engaged in threshing for fifteen years, during which time he became widely and favorably known among the farmers of his own and surrounding townships. He owns 160 acres of fine land, the "old home farm," and as one of the oldest and most prosperous farmers in his township ranks second to none. Like his father he is a Democrat in national politics, but in local elections gives his support to the best man regardless of party lines. He is a Lutheran in religious sentiment, and has held various offices in the church. Commemorative Biographical Record of the Fox River Valley Counties of Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago, J.H. Beers & Co,1895, http://outagamiebios.tripod.com/surnamesB.htm, accessed 1/29/2004. BB

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