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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  CASPER BECKER, Larkin township farmer, has resided in Nobles county

twenty-three years. He was born near the city of Pardelborn, in Westfallen,

Prussia, Sept. 3, 1861, the son of Manuel and Elizabeth (Theala) Becker. Both

parents died in their native land, the father Sept. 27, 1877, aged 70 years, the

mother in 1898, aged 68 years.



  Casper Becker lived in Germany twenty-four years. He was town raised and when

fifteen years of age he started learning, the shoemaker's trade, which he

followed until the fall of 1881. He entered the German army Nov. 9, 1881, and

served at Kiln, on the Rhine, until his discharge Sept. 21, 1884.



  The following spring Mr. Becker sailed for America, arriving in New York on

May 1, with two companions, Frank Wipperman and A. Becker. He came west direct

and arrived in the little village of Adrian on May 5. During the first two

months after his arrival he worked at odd jobs for his board, and then put in

two weeks working on the railroad. He then worked for Mr. Nyens in Little Rock

township for three months and thereby earned $75. After six weeks spent with a

threshing crew, he secured steady employment with Joseph Mulroy, in Lismore

township, and worked on the farm one year.



  This brings him up to the date of his marriage, which occurred at Adrian on

Nov. 27, 1886, when he wedded France Goke, who was born in Germany in 1861 and

who came to the United States in May, 1886. To them have been born the following

children: Mary Katie, born Oct. 7, 1887; John, born Aug. 29, 1889; Elizabeth

Katie, born Dec. 23, 1890; Frances, born Nov. 23, 1891; Frank, born March, 1894,

died September, 1894; John Casper, born Jan. 6, 1896; Lizzie, born Sept. 30, 1898.



  After his marriage Mr. Becker took employment on the railroad, and was a

section man from 1886 to 1890. He then rented land on section 18, Larkin

township, which he farmed five years. The next eight years he farmed rented land

on section 20, of the same township. He then moved onto his present farm, the

southeast quarter of section 16, Larkin, and has since been engaged in farming

it. He had bought eighty acres of his farm in 1891; the other eighty in 1900. He

erected the buildings when he moved on in 1903.



  Mr. Becker is a member of the Catholic church of St. Kilian and of St.

Joseph's society of Adrian. He has had lots of sickness and has seen many hard

times during his residence in Nobles county, but he has weathered all the storms

of adversity and is now in prosperous circumstances.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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