Jackson-Clinton County IA Archives Biographies.....Beck, Peter May 25, 1881 - 
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Source: History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1910
Author: J. W. Ellis

PETER A. P. BECK. 

Peter A. P. Beck, who through hard work has attained to a substantial position 
among the agriculturists of Maquoketa township, was born in Jackson county, May 
25, 1881. His parents, Jacob P. and Marie (Casperson) Beck, were both natives 
of Schleswig-Holstein, where the former's birth occurred in 1852 and the 
latter's in 1861. In 1878 Jacob Beck emigrated to America and the same year 
came to Iowa, settling in Clinton county, where he obtained work and later 
rented a farm. The following year he came to Jackson county, purchasing eighty 
acres of arable land in Maquoketa township. He is still residing upon that 
farm, although he has retired from active participation in the tilling of its 
soil. 
Peter A. P. Beck attended the district schools of Maquoketa township, in which 
he qualified for the responsibilities of life. At the same time he obtained 
practical training for his vocation through the assistance he rendered his 
father in the cultivation of the home farm. He remained with the latter until 
1901, when he bought a tract of one hundred and twenty acres adjoining the 
homestead. Since that time he has cultivated both his own and the paternal 
farm, a total of two hundred acres. In addition to the raising of general 
crops, Mr. Beck has engaged largely in stock raising, deriving from this 
industry large and profitable returns. 
In early manhood Mr. Beck was united in marriage to Miss Pearl Carlot, a 
daughter of Joseph Carlot, of Clinton county, Iowa, and they have one son, 
Oscar, who was born January 24, 1908. Since he was old enough to exercise his 
right of franchise Mr. Beck has voted the republican ticket but, though ever an 
interested spectator of public affairs, he has never aspired to office. A young 
man of laudable ambitions and progressive ideas, every year he reaps abundant 
harvests and through the tests of time has proved he is well able to bear the 
responsibilities that have been placed upon his shoulders. 





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