Biographies:  John Werner BECKER, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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John Werner Becker, born in 1825, at Hildesheim, Germany; came to America 
in 1855 and to Eau Claire county in 1857, where he worked at his trade as 
a cabinetmaker until his death in 1884.  Mr. Becker married in 1859.  His 
wife was formerly Miss Loretta Freyermuth, born in 1835, at Gross 
Rederohingen, Loraine, at that time a French province, but since the 
German-French war of 1870-71 belongs to Germany.  She died in 1906.  Of 
their eight children three still live in Eau Claire county and in the city 
of Eau Claire.  They are Mrs. A. P. Goethel, Mrs. Albert Schwahn and Miss 
Loretta Becker.

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 566.