Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Beckwith, E. D. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Beckwith, E.D., Little Falls, was born in the town of Columbia and educated in 
the district schools and prepared to enter college in the Winfield and Little 
Falls academies.  At the age of twenty-six he was elected to the Legislature, 
and afterwards was school commissioner for Herkimer county.  He followed 
farming until the age of thirty, then through endorsing paper became 
interested in the tannery business, which he has since conducted.  He employs 
about fifty hands.  He is a popular speaker in presidential campaigns.  Mr. 
Beckwith's ancestors are of Revolutionary fame and have been for several 
generations successively members of the Legislature, besides holding other 
public offices of note.  His grandfather, Alijah Beckwith, was in the war of 
1812, served three terms in the Legislature and was from six to eight years in 
the Senate.  His father was alos in the Legislature and was presidential 
elector at the time of Lincoln's nomination.  Mr. Beckwith is at present one 
of the Cleveland delegates to Chicago.  He married Miss E. Robinson of this 
State, by whom he has had three children, one of whom, J.D. Beckwith, is a 
graduate of Cornell University and now a prominent lawyer of this village.  
The other two are daughters.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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