Beck, Peter A. P.

BECK, CASPERSON, CARLOT

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Date: 7/6/2026 at 02:23:29

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Source: History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1910
Author: J. W. Ellis

PETER A. P. BECK.

Peter A. P. Beck, who through hard work has attained to a substantial position
among the agriculturists of Maquoketa township, was born in Jackson county, May
25, 1881. His parents, Jacob P. and Marie (Casperson) Beck, were both natives
of Schleswig-Holstein, where the former's birth occurred in 1852 and the
latter's in 1861. In 1878 Jacob Beck emigrated to America and the same year
came to Iowa, settling in Clinton county, where he obtained work and later
rented a farm. The following year he came to Jackson county, purchasing eighty
acres of arable land in Maquoketa township. He is still residing upon that
farm, although he has retired from active participation in the tilling of its
soil.
Peter A. P. Beck attended the district schools of Maquoketa township, in which
he qualified for the responsibilities of life. At the same time he obtained
practical training for his vocation through the assistance he rendered his
father in the cultivation of the home farm. He remained with the latter until
1901, when he bought a tract of one hundred and twenty acres adjoining the
homestead. Since that time he has cultivated both his own and the paternal
farm, a total of two hundred acres. In addition to the raising of general
crops, Mr. Beck has engaged largely in stock raising, deriving from this
industry large and profitable returns.
In early manhood Mr. Beck was united in marriage to Miss Pearl Carlot, a
daughter of Joseph Carlot, of Clinton county, Iowa, and they have one son,
Oscar, who was born January 24, 1908. Since he was old enough to exercise his
right of franchise Mr. Beck has voted the republican ticket but, though ever an
interested spectator of public affairs, he has never aspired to office. A young
man of laudable ambitions and progressive ideas, every year he reaps abundant
harvests and through the tests of time has proved he is well able to bear the
responsibilities that have been placed upon his shoulders.

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