BECK, EDWIN
Edwin Beck is a farmer and stockman living at Adkins in Bexar County. His birth occurred in Jackson County, Texas, July 4, 1843, his parents being Joseph H. and Sarah Jane (Sledge) Beck. The father was born in South Carolina but was partially reared in Alabama, where he lived for several years, coming to Texas in 1837. He was a slave owner and a prosperous planter and stockman. He lived for several years in Jackson County and in 1846 removed to San Antonio, Bexar County, where he died in 1862. On coming to this city, he purchased considerable real estate, securing most of it from the father of Augusta Evans, the author, whose family lived in San Antonio in those days. For his home place he had a forty-acre tract of land in South Alamo Street in what is now a most thickly settled district of the city. He also established a large stock ranch about eight miles east of San Antonio and there in connection with his cattle interests opened up one of the first farms east of the Salado creek. He was a representative citizen of the best class, active and energetic in business and closely connected with an industry which has been the chief source of wealth to Texas. His wife, whom he had married in Alabama, died in San Antonio in 1877.
J. Edwin Beck was only three years of age when the family removed to San Antonio, so that he was practically reared in this city, where he received such educational advantages as could be obtained in the schools here at that time. Closely following the secession of Texas from the Union and prior to the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted at San Antonio when only seventeen years of age. This was early in April, 1861, and on the 21st of that month he was mustered in as a member of the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Cavalry, state troops, commanded by Colonel Henry E. McCulloch, the noted Mexican war veteran and Indian fighter. Mr. Beck was a member of the state troops until they were disbanded as such, at which time he joined the regular Confederate army as a member of the cavalry. With most of the others of his company he enlisted in Wood's regiment, which was being organized at that time. He served for about twelve months on the Texas frontier, fighting Indians and protecting the frontier settlers, principally in the Concho country and vicinity. About this time his father died and for a brief period he was not connected with the regular service. Later, however, he assisted Hiram A. Mitchell in raising a troop of cavalry, of which Mitchell was elected captain and Mr. Beck lieutenant. He was assigned to Benavides regiment on the Rio Grande with headquarters at Eagle Pass, scouting along the Mexican border and meeting the exigencies of war which arose in that section of the country. He was in service until after the surrender of the Confederate army in 1865 and earned the reputation of being one of the most fearless soldiers in that part of the country.
Following the close of the war he returned to San Antonio and went upon his father's old ranch east of the city, where he commenced raising stock. He devoted his attention exclusively to that business until the country began to be divided and fenced as it became more thickly settled. He then commenced farming in connection with his stock-raising interests and in 1876 removed to his present place at the junction of the Gonzales and Prairie roads about seventeen miles east of San Antonio and two miles south of Adkins. This farm and stock ranch of about one thousand acres is beautifully situated and is. one of the best in Bexar County and Southwestern Texas.
Mr. Beck was married in Bexar County in January, 1869, to Miss Lee R. Irvin, who was born in Mississippi but was reared in Bexar county. They have ten children: Jeff. D., Mrs. Ella M. Cooksey, Wade Hampton, Harvey Edwin, Russell, Jesse Lee, Joe, Frank, Zelia and Emma.
In his political views Mr. Beck is a stalwart Democrat of the old school but votes independently, and during all of his life has taken an active interest and somewhat prominent part in politics and public affairs of San Antonio and Bexar County, where he is numbered as an influential citizen, though he has never sought nor held public office. He is a thinker and student, a man of broad mind, thoroughly posted not only on his business interests but on the general affairs of his country and of the world. (A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas Vol 2, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
Edwin Beck is a farmer and stockman living at Adkins in Bexar County. His birth occurred in Jackson County, Texas, July 4, 1843, his parents being Joseph H. and Sarah Jane (Sledge) Beck. The father was born in South Carolina but was partially reared in Alabama, where he lived for several years, coming to Texas in 1837. He was a slave owner and a prosperous planter and stockman. He lived for several years in Jackson County and in 1846 removed to San Antonio, Bexar County, where he died in 1862. On coming to this city, he purchased considerable real estate, securing most of it from the father of Augusta Evans, the author, whose family lived in San Antonio in those days. For his home place he had a forty-acre tract of land in South Alamo Street in what is now a most thickly settled district of the city. He also established a large stock ranch about eight miles east of San Antonio and there in connection with his cattle interests opened up one of the first farms east of the Salado creek. He was a representative citizen of the best class, active and energetic in business and closely connected with an industry which has been the chief source of wealth to Texas. His wife, whom he had married in Alabama, died in San Antonio in 1877.
J. Edwin Beck was only three years of age when the family removed to San Antonio, so that he was practically reared in this city, where he received such educational advantages as could be obtained in the schools here at that time. Closely following the secession of Texas from the Union and prior to the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted at San Antonio when only seventeen years of age. This was early in April, 1861, and on the 21st of that month he was mustered in as a member of the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Cavalry, state troops, commanded by Colonel Henry E. McCulloch, the noted Mexican war veteran and Indian fighter. Mr. Beck was a member of the state troops until they were disbanded as such, at which time he joined the regular Confederate army as a member of the cavalry. With most of the others of his company he enlisted in Wood's regiment, which was being organized at that time. He served for about twelve months on the Texas frontier, fighting Indians and protecting the frontier settlers, principally in the Concho country and vicinity. About this time his father died and for a brief period he was not connected with the regular service. Later, however, he assisted Hiram A. Mitchell in raising a troop of cavalry, of which Mitchell was elected captain and Mr. Beck lieutenant. He was assigned to Benavides regiment on the Rio Grande with headquarters at Eagle Pass, scouting along the Mexican border and meeting the exigencies of war which arose in that section of the country. He was in service until after the surrender of the Confederate army in 1865 and earned the reputation of being one of the most fearless soldiers in that part of the country.
Following the close of the war he returned to San Antonio and went upon his father's old ranch east of the city, where he commenced raising stock. He devoted his attention exclusively to that business until the country began to be divided and fenced as it became more thickly settled. He then commenced farming in connection with his stock-raising interests and in 1876 removed to his present place at the junction of the Gonzales and Prairie roads about seventeen miles east of San Antonio and two miles south of Adkins. This farm and stock ranch of about one thousand acres is beautifully situated and is. one of the best in Bexar County and Southwestern Texas.
Mr. Beck was married in Bexar County in January, 1869, to Miss Lee R. Irvin, who was born in Mississippi but was reared in Bexar county. They have ten children: Jeff. D., Mrs. Ella M. Cooksey, Wade Hampton, Harvey Edwin, Russell, Jesse Lee, Joe, Frank, Zelia and Emma.
In his political views Mr. Beck is a stalwart Democrat of the old school but votes independently, and during all of his life has taken an active interest and somewhat prominent part in politics and public affairs of San Antonio and Bexar County, where he is numbered as an influential citizen, though he has never sought nor held public office. He is a thinker and student, a man of broad mind, thoroughly posted not only on his business interests but on the general affairs of his country and of the world. (A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas Vol 2, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
BECK, EDWIN
Edwin Beck is a farmer and stockman living at Adkins in Bexar County. His birth occurred in Jackson County, Texas, July 4, 1843, his parents being Joseph H. and Sarah Jane (Sledge) Beck. The father was born in South Carolina but was partially reared in Alabama, where he lived for several years, coming to Texas in 1837. He was a slave owner and a prosperous planter and stockman. He lived for several years in Jackson County and in 1846 removed to San Antonio, Bexar County, where he died in 1862. On coming to this city, he purchased considerable real estate, securing most of it from the father of Augusta Evans, the author, whose family lived in San Antonio in those days. For his home place he had a forty-acre tract of land in South Alamo Street in what is now a most thickly settled district of the city. He also established a large stock ranch about eight miles east of San Antonio and there in connection with his cattle interests opened up one of the first farms east of the Salado creek. He was a representative citizen of the best class, active and energetic in business and closely connected with an industry which has been the chief source of wealth to Texas. His wife, whom he had married in Alabama, died in San Antonio in 1877.
J. Edwin Beck was only three years of age when the family removed to San Antonio, so that he was practically reared in this city, where he received such educational advantages as could be obtained in the schools here at that time. Closely following the secession of Texas from the Union and prior to the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted at San Antonio when only seventeen years of age. This was early in April, 1861, and on the 21st of that month he was mustered in as a member of the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Cavalry, state troops, commanded by Colonel Henry E. McCulloch, the noted Mexican war veteran and Indian fighter. Mr. Beck was a member of the state troops until they were disbanded as such, at which time he joined the regular Confederate army as a member of the cavalry. With most of the others of his company he enlisted in Wood's regiment, which was being organized at that time. He served for about twelve months on the Texas frontier, fighting Indians and protecting the frontier settlers, principally in the Concho country and vicinity. About this time his father died and for a brief period he was not connected with the regular service. Later, however, he assisted Hiram A. Mitchell in raising a troop of cavalry, of which Mitchell was elected captain and Mr. Beck lieutenant. He was assigned to Benavides regiment on the Rio Grande with headquarters at Eagle Pass, scouting along the Mexican border and meeting the exigencies of war which arose in that section of the country. He was in service until after the surrender of the Confederate army in 1865 and earned the reputation of being one of the most fearless soldiers in that part of the country.
Following the close of the war he returned to San Antonio and went upon his father's old ranch east of the city, where he commenced raising stock. He devoted his attention exclusively to that business until the country began to be divided and fenced as it became more thickly settled. He then commenced farming in connection with his stock-raising interests and in 1876 removed to his present place at the junction of the Gonzales and Prairie roads about seventeen miles east of San Antonio and two miles south of Adkins. This farm and stock ranch of about one thousand acres is beautifully situated and is. one of the best in Bexar County and Southwestern Texas.
Mr. Beck was married in Bexar County in January, 1869, to Miss Lee R. Irvin, who was born in Mississippi but was reared in Bexar county. They have ten children: Jeff. D., Mrs. Ella M. Cooksey, Wade Hampton, Harvey Edwin, Russell, Jesse Lee, Joe, Frank, Zelia and Emma.
In his political views Mr. Beck is a stalwart Democrat of the old school but votes independently, and during all of his life has taken an active interest and somewhat prominent part in politics and public affairs of San Antonio and Bexar County, where he is numbered as an influential citizen, though he has never sought nor held public office. He is a thinker and student, a man of broad mind, thoroughly posted not only on his business interests but on the general affairs of his country and of the world. (A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas Vol 2, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
Edwin Beck is a farmer and stockman living at Adkins in Bexar County. His birth occurred in Jackson County, Texas, July 4, 1843, his parents being Joseph H. and Sarah Jane (Sledge) Beck. The father was born in South Carolina but was partially reared in Alabama, where he lived for several years, coming to Texas in 1837. He was a slave owner and a prosperous planter and stockman. He lived for several years in Jackson County and in 1846 removed to San Antonio, Bexar County, where he died in 1862. On coming to this city, he purchased considerable real estate, securing most of it from the father of Augusta Evans, the author, whose family lived in San Antonio in those days. For his home place he had a forty-acre tract of land in South Alamo Street in what is now a most thickly settled district of the city. He also established a large stock ranch about eight miles east of San Antonio and there in connection with his cattle interests opened up one of the first farms east of the Salado creek. He was a representative citizen of the best class, active and energetic in business and closely connected with an industry which has been the chief source of wealth to Texas. His wife, whom he had married in Alabama, died in San Antonio in 1877.
J. Edwin Beck was only three years of age when the family removed to San Antonio, so that he was practically reared in this city, where he received such educational advantages as could be obtained in the schools here at that time. Closely following the secession of Texas from the Union and prior to the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted at San Antonio when only seventeen years of age. This was early in April, 1861, and on the 21st of that month he was mustered in as a member of the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Cavalry, state troops, commanded by Colonel Henry E. McCulloch, the noted Mexican war veteran and Indian fighter. Mr. Beck was a member of the state troops until they were disbanded as such, at which time he joined the regular Confederate army as a member of the cavalry. With most of the others of his company he enlisted in Wood's regiment, which was being organized at that time. He served for about twelve months on the Texas frontier, fighting Indians and protecting the frontier settlers, principally in the Concho country and vicinity. About this time his father died and for a brief period he was not connected with the regular service. Later, however, he assisted Hiram A. Mitchell in raising a troop of cavalry, of which Mitchell was elected captain and Mr. Beck lieutenant. He was assigned to Benavides regiment on the Rio Grande with headquarters at Eagle Pass, scouting along the Mexican border and meeting the exigencies of war which arose in that section of the country. He was in service until after the surrender of the Confederate army in 1865 and earned the reputation of being one of the most fearless soldiers in that part of the country.
Following the close of the war he returned to San Antonio and went upon his father's old ranch east of the city, where he commenced raising stock. He devoted his attention exclusively to that business until the country began to be divided and fenced as it became more thickly settled. He then commenced farming in connection with his stock-raising interests and in 1876 removed to his present place at the junction of the Gonzales and Prairie roads about seventeen miles east of San Antonio and two miles south of Adkins. This farm and stock ranch of about one thousand acres is beautifully situated and is. one of the best in Bexar County and Southwestern Texas.
Mr. Beck was married in Bexar County in January, 1869, to Miss Lee R. Irvin, who was born in Mississippi but was reared in Bexar county. They have ten children: Jeff. D., Mrs. Ella M. Cooksey, Wade Hampton, Harvey Edwin, Russell, Jesse Lee, Joe, Frank, Zelia and Emma.
In his political views Mr. Beck is a stalwart Democrat of the old school but votes independently, and during all of his life has taken an active interest and somewhat prominent part in politics and public affairs of San Antonio and Bexar County, where he is numbered as an influential citizen, though he has never sought nor held public office. He is a thinker and student, a man of broad mind, thoroughly posted not only on his business interests but on the general affairs of his country and of the world. (A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas Vol 2, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
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