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Frederick Beik

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Frederick Beik

Birth
Offenburg, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Death
29 Jan 1891 (aged 62)
Forbestown, Butte County, California, USA
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Forbestown, Butte County, California, USA Add to Map
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...Henry Albert Beik, who was born two miles from Forbestown, in Yuba County, on January 13,1865, the son of Frederick Beik, who came from the German duchy of Baden. His grandfather, Frederick Beik, brought the family to Iowa, and was a farmer near Muscatine, where he died. Henry's father, therefore, was reared in Iowa, from which state, in 1852, he crossed the unexplored plains to promising California. He made the journey wit ox-teams, and soon after arriving in the state, tried his luck in the mines along the Feather River. His next move was to Enterprise, then to New York Flat, and finally to Forbestown, where he was a placer-miner. After that he made his home-farm two miles south of Forbestown, and still later he ran a freight team from Oroville to Forbestown. And there, after a hard but successful life as a sturdy citizen who provided as best he could, through honest industry, for his family he died, in January, 1891 ..." Biography of Henry A. Beik, Source: "History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 826-828, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
...Henry Albert Beik, who was born two miles from Forbestown, in Yuba County, on January 13,1865, the son of Frederick Beik, who came from the German duchy of Baden. His grandfather, Frederick Beik, brought the family to Iowa, and was a farmer near Muscatine, where he died. Henry's father, therefore, was reared in Iowa, from which state, in 1852, he crossed the unexplored plains to promising California. He made the journey wit ox-teams, and soon after arriving in the state, tried his luck in the mines along the Feather River. His next move was to Enterprise, then to New York Flat, and finally to Forbestown, where he was a placer-miner. After that he made his home-farm two miles south of Forbestown, and still later he ran a freight team from Oroville to Forbestown. And there, after a hard but successful life as a sturdy citizen who provided as best he could, through honest industry, for his family he died, in January, 1891 ..." Biography of Henry A. Beik, Source: "History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 826-828, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.

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