Biography of Samuel Beck, page 842.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Samuel Beck, one of the most enterprising and successful business men of 
Waterloo, was born in Crawford County, Ohio, Feb. 18, 1836, a son of Adam 
and Sarah (Gloyd) Beck, native of Pennsylvania, but early settlers of 
Crawford County, where they were married in 1834.  Four of their seven 
children are living.  The father died in 1870 and the mother in June, 1882, 
both at the age of sixty-two years.  Our subject received but a limited 
education, his father being a poor man and he being the eldest son, was 
early obliged to assist in the maintenance of the family.  He came to 
Waterloo in 1861, and the following year became established in the general 
mercantile and produce business.  He now has the largest trade in butter, 
eggs, and poultry in Northern Indiana.  Mr. Beck was married in 1863 to 
Lillie Staers, a native of Maryland, but a resident of De Kalb County since 
her childhood.  Mr. and Mrs. Beck have three daughters---Dora, Mary and 
Alta.  Mr. Beck is a member of the Waterloo City Lodge, No. 307, F. & 
A.M.  He was drafted in the war of the Rebellion, but paid $700 to a 
substitute.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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