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Christopher Beck 1796 - 1881

Christopher Beck was born in 1796 at Prussia in Germany. He was in a relationship with Mary Beck, and had children Wilhelmina Louisa (Beck) Benning, Theresa Christina McNail, and William Beck. Christopher Beck died at age 84 years old on January 8, 1881 at Lyons in Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa United States.

Christopher Beck

1796

Prussia in , Germany

January 8, 1881

Lyons in Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa, United States

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The Lyons Weekly Mirror. Lyons, Iowa. 15th January 1881. - Death of Mr. Beck. A portion of our issue last week contained the announcement of the death, last Saturday morning, at the Union House of Mr. Christopher Beck, an old resident of this city, but who for the past year had been living with his son in Crawford county. A fact that we did not learn last week is that the immediate cause of Mr. Beck's death was poison, a partly burned paper being found on the floor, bearing a poison label with the name of Knaul, druggist, Denison. Coroner Lukens being notified, impaneled a jury and held an inquest. - Following is the verdict: STATE OF IOWA, Clinton County } An inquisition holden at Lyons, in Clinton county, on the 8th day of January, 1881, before E. Lukens, coroner of said county, upon the body of Christopher Beck there laying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereunto subscribed, the said jurors upon their oath do say that said Christopher Beck came to his death by poison, taken accidentally. In testimony whereof the said jurors have hereto set their hands the day and year aforesaid. - John Gallion, Robert Blakely, Wm. Lyall. - The deceased was about 85 years of age, and leaves three children - Wm. Beck of Vail, Mrs. Benning of Camanche, and Mrs. McNail of Ashley, Illinois. The funeral which occurred last Sunday, was conducted by the German Association and the Schuetzen Verein, a large number attending.
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1796

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Prussia in Germany

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Saloon Keeper
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1881

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January 8, 1881

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Accidentally poisoned

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Lyons in Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa United States
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Christopher Beck lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.

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In 1803, when he was merely 7 years old, on October 20th, Congress ratified the Louisiana Purchase. The United States agreed to pay France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory - an area of about 830,000 sq miles. This one act doubled the size of the United States.

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In 1833, when he was 37 years old, on August 12th, Chicago was incorporated as a town at the estuary of the Chicago River by 350 settlers. Chicago’s first permanent resident was a trader named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a free black man -perhaps from Haiti - who went there in the late 1770s. At first, it was simply a trading post but it grew quickly, going from trading post to town to city in 1837.

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Christopher Beck 1796 - Jan 8, 1881

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Mary Beck