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BLOSIUS BECK, merchant, post office McKee’s Rocks, son of William and Theresa Beck, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to this country in 1852, settling in Pittsburgh. William Beck died in Germany, and his widow with her twelve children came to this country in 1854, locating in Allegheny county. From those twelve children there have been born 150 children, of whom 120 are living, and eleven of the twelve that came from Germany are also living, viz.: Titus, Joseph, Michael, Andrew, Christina, Catherine, Mary, Barbara, Lena, Blosius and Jacob. The mother of this family died in Allegheny county in 1887, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. The family are members of the K. C. Church. Blosius Beck was reared on his parents farm in Germany, and after coming to this country, for several years was fireman on a local engine. Then for twenty-eight years he followed gardening and raising flowers, and for the past six years he has been engaged in grocery, flour and feed business in the village of Chartiers. When he arrived in Pittsburgh he had only two cents to commence life in a new country, but by his industry he has become a successful merchant. Mr. Beck has been twice married; first, in 1854, to Mary, daughter of Joseph Bloom, of this county, and she died in May, 1871, at the age of forty-two years, the mother of following-named children: Mary (wife of Conrad Myers), Jacob, Michael, Jennie (wife of Jacob Nolte), Theresa, John, Louis, Henry (deceased), Laura (deceased), Josephine (deceased). Mr. Beck’s second wife is Agatha, daughter of Nicholas and Estella Sligher. By this marriage there were nine children: Albert, Estella (deceased), Henry (deceased), Elizabeth, Lena, Joseph, Estella, Catharine and Agatha.