Newton Co IN Bio

Newton County, Iroquois Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton,
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.  

   NICKOLAS BECHER is a native of Germany, and is a son of Conrad and 
Margaret Becher, likewise natives of Germany.  His father was a farmer
and weaver, and died in Lake County, Indiana, in 1867.
   Nicholas Becher was twenty-two years of age when he arrived in 
America.  He came to Lake County, Indiana and purchased forty-seven 
acres, which he afterward sold and then purchased eighty acres of his
present home, to which he has since added eighty more.
   In 1870, he married Miss Mary Geier, a native of Germany, who
departed from life in 1877.  His second marriage, in Newton County,
Indiana, was to Miss Dora Oehring, a native of Chicago.  Mr. Becher is
the parent of four children; by his first wife, Annie, Minnie and Dora;
by his second wife, Bettie.  Mr. Becher is the owner of a very fine 
prairie farm, with improvements, among which are one and a half miles
of hedge.  He averages from 2,000 to 2,500 bushels of corn, 300 to 400
bushels of oats, and from fifteen to thirty tons of hay each year.  Mr.
Becher is a successful farmer and worthy gentleman.


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