Henry P. Beck, owns and operates of good farm on section 36, Royal Oak Township, consisting of 90 acres of well improved land. He began the battle of life without money or extra help, he has made his own way, arriving at a condition that enables them to enjoying many comforts and feel that the future is secure. He bought his property in 1868 as brought it from its wild condition through the various stages of clearing, breaking and improvement. The homeland farm is which he lives was put up in 1869.

Mr. Beck is a German by birth, but is lived in this country since his childhood. His father, for whom he is named, was born in Hanau, Prussia, March 4, 1804, and had been ordinary education. About 1830 he married Mary E. Giloy, who was born in Simmern, Prussia, December 24, 1811. She was a daughter of George F. Giloy, who was a French dissent. In 1842 the Becks came to America and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where the husband and father died January 29, 1874. The widow survived until January 25, 1882, and died in the same city. They had three daughters and two sons, and are subject was a younger son and third child. He attended the public schools in Cleveland and remained with his parents until 1859. He was then in his twenty-third year, having been born October 24, 1836.

August 26, 1862 Mr. Beck was married to Mary A. Warner, of Berea, Ohio. She was born November 22, 1841, and Columbia, Ohio, and was the elder child of Levi B. and Eliza (Zuver) Warner, having a brother Cassius M. Her father was born in Columbia, Ohio, May 5, 1819, and died at Royal Oak May 15, 1888. The father of Levi B., Was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, August 29, 1792, and married Anna S. Bronson, who was born in 1800 in Waterbury, Connecticut; her father Levi Bronson, was a native of Connecticut and are moved with his family to Ohio in 1805. Anna (Bronson) Warner, was married in 1816 and died August 14, 1880, in Pipestone, Michigan. There also are husband passed away May 25, 1868. The maiden name of her mother was Sarah Princle and the mother of the latter for the name of Anna Southmayde.

Tracing the ancestry of Mrs. Beck still further back, we find that the father of Adna Warner was Justus, a revolutionary soldier of the old new England stock. He came west to Ohio in 1811, and died in Liverpool, that state, in the fall of 1855, when 100 years and twenty days old. He was Justice of the Peace many years. Urania, his wife, was seventy years old at the time of her death. This good old couple were of different political opinions, and both took their respective papers. When the postman came she, for fun, would take the tongs with which to carry in his paper. She was an educated position and was often sent for as eminent counsel. It was quite common for her to travel 50 miles on horseback to be present an important consultations.

the mother of Mrs. Beck, Eliza Zuver, was born in Pennsylvania October 8, 1820, and was a daughter of John W. and Margaret (Bridgeman) Zuver, the former a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Zuver was a generous, Honorable man, and highly esteemed. George Beck, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Prussia about 1873 and became an officer in the Prussian Army; he also became a civil officer where his family lived.

in 1863 Mr. Beck came to this state and his first choice of a home was Huron County. He worked in the quarries of Grindstone City four years, then went to Columbia, Ohio, four years sojourn, after which he returned to this state and settled in Wayne County. In 1868 he bought the farm upon which he is now living and soon headed sufficiently improved to make it is home. When he settled here his nearest neighbor was a mile and a half distant, and coming to the new home he found the role is so soft, much the land be in marshy, that he carried a world, by means of which the pullout the wagons when they were stock. Mr. and Mrs. Beck have two sons; Warner Giloy, born December 13, 1869, and Cassius Delos Joy, born December 3, 1873.

the first presidential vote cast by Mr. Beck bore the name of Abraham Lincoln and he is followed it by supporting each Republican candidate to the present time. He is been a worker for the party of his choice billion not an office seeker, but one who thinks it the duty of every good citizen to exercise a right of suffrage intelligently and unfailingly. He is served as Justice of the Peace two years and was re-elected, but declined to again qualify for the office. He and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mrs. Beck has been a teacher in the Sunday school. Her brother, Cassius M. Warner, laid down his life for the Union, dying at Chattanooga August 14, 1864. He was not yet of age, having been born September 10, 1843. He enlisted in Company B, 103rd Ohio infantry, Colonel Casement of Painsville, commanding, and was present at the battle of Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga and Resaca, and was wounded during the last named engagement. He belong to Sherman’s forces whenever runaround commander started on the famous march to the sea.