HENRY BECKER, well known in Hall County where his life has been spent, owns one of the best improved farms in Alda township, where he conducts agricultural operations with much success. He is a representative of one of the earliest families, having been born on the old Becker homestead near Grand Island, August 26, 1867.
The parents of Henry Becker were Fritz and Elizabeth (Danker) Becker, both of whom were born in Germany but became acquainted and were married after they reached Grand Island. Of their family of five children three sons are living: Charles, who follows the carpenter trade in Hershey, Lincoln County, Nebraska; Henry, a representative citizen of Alda toenship, Hall County, and August, who resides on the old himestead near Grand Island. Fritz Becker came to the United States in 1860 and homesteaded in Hall County among the early German settlers of that locality. He was an industrious, thrifty farmer, cultivation he land with thoroughness, and by the time that Nebraska became a state, was recognized as one of the stable and substantial men of Hall county.
Henry Becker grew up on his father's pioneer farm. He had fewer educational advantages than those reared in better organized settlements, but time has fairly remedied that and Mr. Becker is one of the best informed citizens of this township. He has followed farming all his life and owns one hundred and sixty-nene acres of valuable land, devoting it to general farm purposes.
In 1900 Henry Becker married Miss Lena Luth, who was born in Germany, where her father died. She was eleven years old when she accompanied her mother to the United States, where the latter subsequently married George Lorenzen. Mr. and Mrs. Becker have two sons, Carl and William, aged respectively seventeen and sixteen years. They are intelligent, well educated young men, and both are giving their father assistance on the home farm. Mr. Becker has never desired public office and takes no very active interest in general politics.
