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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  L. H. BECKLEY, market gardener of Worthington, is one of the citizens who has

a period of over thirty years residence in Nobles county to his credit. Mr.

Beckley is a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he was born May 2, 1844. He is

one of a family of eight children. His father, Joseph Beckley, was a native of

New York state, who went to Michigan in 1832 and became a pioneer of that state.

He died about fifteen years ago at the age of eighty years. Clarasa (Sweetland)

Beckley was the name of our subject's mother. She died at the age of 78 years.



  L. H. Beckley resided with his parents in Kalamazoo until twenty-one years of

age. Then he went to Barry county, Mich., and engaged in farming, which he

followed until 1877. In September of that year he moved to Nobles county, bought

a farm in Dewald township, and engaged in farming there for a number of years.

During the time that he was engaged in farming he conducted a meat market in

Worthington a year and a half, having purchased the pioneer market from Otis

Bigelow. Removing from Dewald township, Mr. Beckley, located on the Newkirk

farm, and in 1894 moved to Worthington. He bought a six and one-half acre tract

of land in the village, and for the last fourteen years has been a market gardener.



  In Portage township, Kalamazoo county, Mich., Mr. Beckley was united in

marriage to Martha Austin on Jan. 16, 1867. She is a daughter of H. M. Austin

and was born in Ohio in August, 1843. To Mr. and Mrs. Beckley have been born

five children, of whom the following three are living: Eugene E., a miller

living at Blue Earth, Minn.; Harvey G., a printer of Minneapolis; Jennie M., of

Worthington.



  Mr. Beckley is a member of the Congregational church and of the A. O. U. W.

and Degree of Honor lodges.



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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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