BIOGRAPHIES: Rev. P. BECKER, Rice Lake, Barron County, WI

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Rev. P. Becker, priest of the Catholic church, Rice Lake, was born in 
Germany, June 26, 1856 and is a son of Anthony and Catherine (Buechel) 
Becker.  His father came from Munster, Westphalia, Germany; his mother 
was from near the river Rhine.  The family left Germany in 1871 and 
settled in Sterling, Ill., where the father died October 20, 1884; the 
mother died at her son's home in Rice Lake, January 10, 1890.  Our 
subject, though yet a young man, has achieved a success which any one 
might well envy.  His classical and philosophical courses were taken at 
St. Francis, Milwaukee, and his theological course at the Grand Seminary 
at Liege, Belgium, graduating from the latter in the winter of 1886-87.  
His first charge was at Cumberland, Wis., where he did a noble work, and 
the same is equally true as regards Turtle Lake and Shell Lake, which 
were under his charge.  He remained in Cumberland until 1889, when he 
came to Rice Lake, since which time he as advanced the interests of the 
church, has built a fine residence adjoining the church, a new convent 
school, which is flourishing, besides having made many other improvements.  
He is a great worker and has endeared himself in the hearts of his 
parishioners.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", pages 515-516.