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Beck</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Los_Angeles_City_Council" title="President of the Los Angeles City Council">President of the Los Angeles Common Council</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />December 5, 1878 – December 5, 1879</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Cohn_(politician)" title="Bernard Cohn (politician)">Bernard Cohn</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_B._Lawlor" title="William B. Lawlor">William B. Lawlor</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Common_Council" title="Los Angeles Common Council">Los Angeles Common Council</a> for the 4th ward</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />December 5, 1878 – December 11, 1880</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1835-04-22</span>)</span>April 22, 1835<br /><a href="/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Alsace-Lorraine">Alsace-Lorraine</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a> (today <a href="/wiki/Lorraine,_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Lorraine, France">Lorraine, France</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">November 24, 1906<span style="display:none">(1906-11-24)</span> (aged 71)<br /><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, California</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Sarah Beck</div> <div style="display:inline-block;">​</div>(died 1893)<wbr />​</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Fidelia Anderson</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px">​</div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;">​</div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1905⁠–⁠1906)<wbr />​</div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Samuel J. Beck</b> (April 22, 1835 – November 24, 1906) was a metallurgist, land developer, a judge in Montana, and a member of the <a href="/wiki/Montana_State_Legislature" class="mw-redirect" title="Montana State Legislature">Montana State Legislature</a> in the 19th Century. He was also on the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Common_Council" title="Los Angeles Common Council">Los Angeles Common Council</a> from 1878 to 1880 and was its president during 1878–79, in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles, California">Los Angeles, California</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_J._Beck&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_J._Beck&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beck was born in <a href="/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Alsace-Lorraine">Alsace-Lorraine</a> (then part of <a href="/wiki/German_Empire" title="German Empire">German Empire</a>, today it is a part of France) on April 22, 1835, to John Baptist Beck Sr. and Marguerithe Beck, and about 1838 the family emigrated to the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-Obituary_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Obituary-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LibraryFile_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LibraryFile-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1849 the young Beck "fought his way into Montana," to an area that is now <a href="/wiki/Bozeman,_Montana" title="Bozeman, Montana">the city of Bozeman</a>. As a wounded veteran of conflicts with the <a href="/wiki/Sioux" title="Sioux">Sioux</a> in Oregon and Montana, he drew a survivor's pension for fourteen years. He was graduated from F.T. Kefnper's Collegiate School in <a href="/wiki/Booneville,_Missouri" class="mw-redirect" title="Booneville, Missouri">Booneville, Missouri</a>, in 1853 and then studied at the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>, where he earned a degree as a <a href="/wiki/Metallurgist" class="mw-redirect" title="Metallurgist">metallurgist</a> in 1870. He also became a lawyer that year.<sup id="cite_ref-Obituary_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Obituary-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He visited Los Angeles in 1869 at the behest of the <a href="/wiki/Workman-Temple_family" class="mw-redirect" title="Workman-Temple family">W.H. Workman family</a> and bought a <a href="/wiki/Vineyard" title="Vineyard">vineyard</a> on <a href="/wiki/San_Pedro_Street" title="San Pedro Street">San Pedro Street</a>, then moved to the city in 1876. He and Workman had been classmates in Booneville.<sup id="cite_ref-Obituary_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Obituary-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Affiliations">Affiliations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_J._Beck&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Affiliations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beck was a Presbyterian and a Republican. In 1905 he was supreme commander of the Grand Council of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Legion_of_the_Red_Cross&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Legion of the Red Cross (page does not exist)">Legion of the Red Cross</a> and presided at the organization's annual meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriages">Marriages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_J._Beck&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Marriages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His first wife was Sarah E. Beck, who died in April 1893.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was then married in July 1905<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to Fidelia A. Anderson, who was at that time the principal of Washington-street School. The wedding of the "well-known school teacher" to Beck, who was "about twenty-five years" her senior, came as a "great surprise," the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> reported, adding: "That the wedding was unexpected in some quarters is indicated by the fact that Miss Anderson was named by the Board of Education only a week or so to continue as principal.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In those days the policy of the Los Angeles School Board was that married teachers had to resign their positions.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_J._Beck&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beck died November 24, 1906 in his Los Angeles home.<sup id="cite_ref-LibraryFile_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LibraryFile-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Masonic services were followed by cremation at <a href="/wiki/Rosedale_Cemetery,_Los_Angeles" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles">Rosedale Cemetery</a>. He left an estate of $26,982,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in November 1909 Beck's sister, Mary A. Chappell, filed suit to have Fidelia Beck removed as trustee of the will because the sister had not received monthly allowances promised to her. Fidelia responded that all the money was gone.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_service">Public service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_J._Beck&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Public service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beck was elected judge of the <a href="/wiki/Superior_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Superior Court">Superior Court</a> in Bozeman. He served two terms in the Montana Legislature, in 1872 and 1873, representing <a href="/wiki/Choteau,_Montana" title="Choteau, Montana">Choteau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gallatin_County,_Montana" title="Gallatin County, Montana">Gallatin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meagher_County,_Montana" title="Meagher County, Montana">Meager</a> and <a href="/wiki/Big_Horn_County,_Montana" title="Big Horn County, Montana">Big Horn</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After moving to California, Beck was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Common_Council" title="Los Angeles Common Council">Los Angeles Common Council</a> in December 1878 and was unanimously chosen council president in 1878–79. He was a council member in 1879–80 as well and was "one of the principals in the opening and widening of both San Pedro and Seventh streets." He "took an active part in the inaugurating and completing of the city waterworks, whereby the lands of the east and west parts of the city which had hitherto been barren were made to flower by irrigation." Beck, it was said, had the idea of building two large reservoirs, one of which became the nexus for the lake in <a href="/wiki/Echo_Park,_Los_Angeles" class="mw-redirect" title="Echo Park, Los Angeles">Echo Park</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References_and_notes">References and notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_J._Beck&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References and notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Access to the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> links may require the use of a library card. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/158968958">"Masonic Home Head and Pioneer Dead," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> November 27, 1906, page II-3</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LibraryFile-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LibraryFile_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LibraryFile_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/03/556.pdf">Los Angeles Public Library reference file</a> The library file, compiled in 1937, differs in some respects from a 1906 <i>Times</i> obituary; the former states that Beck was born in New Hampshire on July 5, 1845, but the obituary states he was born April 22, 1835, in Alsace-Lorraine.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/163653615">"Died," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> April 11, 1893, page 7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Los Angeles Public Library reference file states he was married February 14, 1903.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/164361388">"Marriage a Surprise," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> July 7, 1905, page II-1</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042462/1905-07-07/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1836&index=0&rows=20&words=Beck+J+Samuel&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=California&date2=1922&proxtext=Samuel+J.+Beck&y=13&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1">"Pioneer Aged 70 Years Weds School Teacher," <i>Los Angeles Herald,</i> July 7, 1905, page 5</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ulwaf.com/LA-1900s/00.03.html#MarriedTeachers"><i>Los Angeles Herald,</i> March 15, 1900</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/159068978">"Courthouse Notes," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> December 5, 1906, page II-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.proquest.com/docview/159357169">"Accounting Sought," <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> November 24, 1909, page II-2</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://montanahistorywiki.pbworks.com/w/page/21639851/Territorial%20Legislators%2C%201864-1876">Montana History Wiki</a> See sources on that page.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p><br /> </p> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output 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