Carroll-White County IN Archives Biographies.....Beck, E. W. H.  1822 - 1888
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

E. W.  H. BECK, M. D.

   Dr. E. W. H. Beck was born in Lewiston, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, January
18, 1822, and came to White county, Indiana, in October, 1838. In 1842 he
attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. He came from
Monticello to Delphi in 1845. He associated with Dr. Samuel Grimes and began the
practice of his profession. In 1846 he became the assistant surgeon of the First
Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in the Mexican War.

   Doctor Beck was married to Frances M. Milroy, youngest daughter of Gen.
Samuel Milroy, October 22, 1848, and to this union five children were born. On
the 5th of October, 1861, he was commissioned a surgeon in the Third Regiment,
Indiana Cavalry. He was a noted physician and enjoyed an extensive practice. He
was a member of Delphi Lodge No. 28, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He died
on October 6, 1888, leaving his wife and his five children surviving.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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