The son of Conrad & Elizabeth Beck, in 1860 he was a farmer living in Penn Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 5" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Harrisburg August 9, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 17 as a private with Co. E, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer and promoted to corporal January 1, 1864, at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, and honorably discharged with his company July 18, 1865, at Lexington, North Carolina.
He married Sarah A. Jobson September 23, 1865, in Harrisburg and fathered Annie (b. @1868) and Alice M. (b. 1870). In 1891, he applied for a disability pension while living in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died at age fifty-eight in Baltimore City Hospital following a stroke.
Although his military documents suggest that he was illiterate, he apparently worked as a conductor on the Baltimore Division of the Northern Central Railway, a position one would believe required at least some literacy.
From an unknown obituary previously posted:
The Brotherhood of Baltimore and the Knights of Pythias, of this place, of which the deceased was a member, attended the funeral in a body. The interment was in Chestnut Grove Cemetery.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Harrisburg August 9, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 17 as a private with Co. E, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer and promoted to corporal January 1, 1864, at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, and honorably discharged with his company July 18, 1865, at Lexington, North Carolina.
He married Sarah A. Jobson September 23, 1865, in Harrisburg and fathered Annie (b. @1868) and Alice M. (b. 1870). In 1891, he applied for a disability pension while living in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died at age fifty-eight in Baltimore City Hospital following a stroke.
Although his military documents suggest that he was illiterate, he apparently worked as a conductor on the Baltimore Division of the Northern Central Railway, a position one would believe required at least some literacy.
From an unknown obituary previously posted:
The Brotherhood of Baltimore and the Knights of Pythias, of this place, of which the deceased was a member, attended the funeral in a body. The interment was in Chestnut Grove Cemetery.
The son of Conrad & Elizabeth Beck, in 1860 he was a farmer living in Penn Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 5" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Harrisburg August 9, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 17 as a private with Co. E, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer and promoted to corporal January 1, 1864, at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, and honorably discharged with his company July 18, 1865, at Lexington, North Carolina.
He married Sarah A. Jobson September 23, 1865, in Harrisburg and fathered Annie (b. @1868) and Alice M. (b. 1870). In 1891, he applied for a disability pension while living in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died at age fifty-eight in Baltimore City Hospital following a stroke.
Although his military documents suggest that he was illiterate, he apparently worked as a conductor on the Baltimore Division of the Northern Central Railway, a position one would believe required at least some literacy.
From an unknown obituary previously posted:
The Brotherhood of Baltimore and the Knights of Pythias, of this place, of which the deceased was a member, attended the funeral in a body. The interment was in Chestnut Grove Cemetery.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Harrisburg August 9, 1861, and mustered into federal service there October 17 as a private with Co. E, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer and promoted to corporal January 1, 1864, at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, and honorably discharged with his company July 18, 1865, at Lexington, North Carolina.
He married Sarah A. Jobson September 23, 1865, in Harrisburg and fathered Annie (b. @1868) and Alice M. (b. 1870). In 1891, he applied for a disability pension while living in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died at age fifty-eight in Baltimore City Hospital following a stroke.
Although his military documents suggest that he was illiterate, he apparently worked as a conductor on the Baltimore Division of the Northern Central Railway, a position one would believe required at least some literacy.
From an unknown obituary previously posted:
The Brotherhood of Baltimore and the Knights of Pythias, of this place, of which the deceased was a member, attended the funeral in a body. The interment was in Chestnut Grove Cemetery.
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