Bio: |
Becker, Frederick (History - 1864) |
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Janet Schwarze |
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stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org |
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BECKER TETZLAFF SCHUH |
----Source: 1918 History of Clark County, Wisconsin
Frederick Becker,
1864
FREDERICK BECKER, a well known stock and
dairy farmer of Beaver Township, is a native of Germany, having
been born in the village of Blaumtin, province of Pommerania, May
19, 1864, d son of Frederick Becker. He is unable to remember his
mother, as she died when he was 3 years old, leaving, besides
himself, a young daughter named Amelia. The father subsequently
married again and emigrated to the United States, bringing his
daughter with him, but leaving young Frederick in Germany. The
latter was then 15 years of age. His schooling was limited, as he
had to begin industrial life at an early age. After remaining in
Germany until he was 27 years old, he then came also to this
country, being still a single man. Locating in Milwaukee, he found
work there as a mason's laborer and remained two years. At the end
of that time he came to Clark County and went to work on a farm in
Green Grove Township and was thus occupied until about 1897, when
he bought a tract of wild land in Section 4, that township. There
were no buildings on it, but he put up a frame house and, procuring
a horse team, began to clear the land. He was at this time a
married man, as he had been united in Milwaukee, Feb. 7, 1892, to
Wilhelmina Tetzlaff, who was born in Germany, Jan. 3, 1870,
daughter of Theodore Tetzlaff. She also had lost her mother when
young she had a brother and sister--William and Bertha, the latter
of whom was married in Germany and, with her husband, accompanied
Wilhelmina to Milwaukee in 1891. The father, Theodore, and the
brother, William, remained in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Becker remained
in Green Grove Township for three and a half years, after which
they lived for nine months in Colby. In 1904 Mr. Becker bought his
present farm of eighty acres. It was then covered with timber,
except that five or six acres had been chopped. There was a frame
barn on the land and a small frame house--a mere shanty of two
rooms. Since then Mr. Becker has made good progress and now has a
fine frame house of ten rooms and a substantial barn, 30 by 60
feet. He raises graded cattle and Chester-white hogs with good
success and has a good dairy business. A German Lutheran in
religion, he helped to build the church of that denomination in
Green Grove Township. Mr. and Mrs. Becker are the parents of four
children: Paul, Elsie, Marie and Otto. Paul, who was born in
Milwaukee, Nov. 20, 1892, was formerly a teacher in Dakota. He now
resides in Two Rivers, Minn., where he is a bookkeeper in the
Hamilton furniture factory. Elsie, born in Milwaukee, March 10,
1894, is the wife of Albert Schuh of Colby and has one child,
Raymond. Marie, born in Green Grove Township, Clark County, May 20,
1896, is unmarried. Otto, born in Green Grove Township, July 14,
1902.
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