Biographical Sketch of Daniel Beckner, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Daniel Beckner, a prominent farmer of Spring Hollow Township, was born
in the "Old Dominion," Montgomery County, Va., August 9, 1821, and is a
son of Daniel and Mary Beckner, who were of German descent, and natives
of the "Keystone State."  The paternal grandfather came from the father-
land to America some time prior to the Revolutionary War, locating on a
farm in Pennsylvania, where he reared a family of five children, of 
whom Daniel was the youngest son; he was born about 1792.  He removed 
to Virginia when a young man, and in 1827, with his family, which con-
sisted of his wife and nine children, immigrated to Preble county, Ohio
where they resided until 1834 or 1835, when they removed to Elkhart,
Ind.  In 1839 they removed to Dallas county, Mo., where the town of 
Long Lane is now located.  There the father died in 1869, having been a
member of the county court, and first assessor of the county.  His wife
was born in 1798, and died in Indiana in 1863.  They were both members
of the German Baptist church, and their family consisted of eleven
children, all of whom lived to be grown, and seven are living at the
present time: Levi, Mary Ann, Daniel, Aaron, Naomi, Delilah and Eli.
Those deceased are Isaac, Samuel, James and Catherine.  Daniel was in
his eighteenth year when he came to Missouri with his father, and he
continued to reside on the home place until thirty-seven years of age,
but during the war made his home in Indiana.  Since that time he has 
resided on his present farm, having been married to Nancy F. Moore, a
native of Kentucky, who came to Missouri when a girl.  To them were
born two children, Siegel and Jesse, the latter being deceased.  The 
mother was a member of the Missionary Baptist church, and died in 1863,
after which Mr. Beckner married Ellen Schoolfield, a native of Tenn.,
by whom he became the father of the following children: Chloe, E. C.,
Dan, and Levi (deceased).  He is a Republican in politics, and served
one term as a member of the State Legislature.  He is deeply interested
in church and school work, and especially in the education and well
being of the rising generations, who are wanted to surpass, if possible
the past.

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