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Historical Collections
Collections and Researches made by the
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society
Reprint VOL. XXI
Wynkoop Ballenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers 1912-1913

         [page 122-123]
         
         DAVID BECKHARDT died suddenly at his home in Hillsdale,
       April 9, 1892, aged seventy-two years. Deceased was of
       German birth and ancestry; born in the city of Hamburg,
       November 9, 1819, he remaianed there until 1840 when he
       made his way to Havre, France, and boarded a sailing ves-
       sel, reached New York after a voyage of fifty-three days.
       He afterwards went to Albany where he worked in a pork
       packing concern for two years. From Albany he went to 
       Buffalo, then to Lodi where he went into the grocery busi-
       ness. Here he was married and after a short time returned
       to Buffalo where he bought a stock of dry goods and notions
       and continued in trade until 1850 when he came to Hillsdale
       and has ever since been one of our leading merchants and a
       prominent citizen. Probably no man in the county is as well
       known to the farmers as DAVID BECKHARDT and he will be
       greatly missed in the ranks of the buyers and shippers of
       the farmer's products.
       
         MR. BECKHARDT was the father of nine children, six of
       whom survive him. The sons, EDWARD T., LOUIS F., and 
       GEORGE, are residents of Hillsdale and have of late man-
       aged the business of the two stores of the firm. The
       daughters are all married. The youngest, Mrs. JOHN G.WOLF
       resides in Hillsdale. Mrs. PORTER THOMAS lives in South
       Haven, Mich., and Mrs. CARL D. ANDREWS lives in Minneapolis.
       
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