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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  C. W. BECKER, lumber dealer and postmaster of Wilmont, has been a resident of

Nobles county for twenty-one years and has the honor of having been the first

business man to locate in the new town of Wilmont. He is a native of Germany,

having been born in the province of Westphalia. He is the son of Gustaf Becker

and Marie (Lang) Becker. Both his parents are dead, his mother having died in

her native country in 1881, and his father in the same country in 1906.



  C. W. Becker came to America in 1887, and the same year is the date of his

arrival in Adrian, Nobles county. He at once began work in A. M. Becker's store

there, and he was thus employed for six years. He then took employment with N.

P. Hanson & Co., lumber leaders, and was with that firm from 1893 to December,

1899. That month he resigned his position and moved to the site of the future

Wilmont and started in the lumber and coal business for himself—the first

business house of the town. He became the townsite agent, being employed by

Thos. H. Brown, and had charge of the sale of lots of the new town.



  He at once took an active part in the affairs of the new town. He prepared and

circulated the petition asking the county commissioners to take favorable action

toward incorporating the village in 1900. When the Wilmont postoffice was

established he was appointed postmaster, his commission being dated Feb. 6,

1900, and he has held the office ever since. He has been a member of the Wilmont

school board ever since the district was organized.



  Mr. Becker was married at Adrian June 3, 1897, to Gertrude Chandler. To them

have been born three children: Max Wilfred, Paul Gustave and Florence Gertrude,

all of whom are living at home.



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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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