“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


PHILLIP BECKER,  farmer, Secs. 2 and 3;  P.O. Fort Atkinson; was 
born in Prussia Sept. 12, 1824.  He received a common-school 
education, and, in 1845, came direct to Wisconsin with his father and 
mother, Henry and Mary Gertrude Becker.  His father located and 
bought a farm in Oakland Township, Jefferson Co., and Phillip assisted 
him in working it until 1859, when he bought a farm of forty acres.  He 
married, in May, 1850, in Oakland, Miss Carolina Christians Kalen, born 
on the Rhine, Germany, Oct. 8, 1829; they had four children, three living 
– Fred William (born in 1852), Louisa (1855) and Carolina (1858).  In 
1853, he rented his farm in Oakland and moved to Sumner Township, 
where he bought seventy-four acres, and has since purchased 282 acres, 
and now owns 356, upon which he has made a large number of 
improvements.  He is a Democrat, and, together with his family, is a 
member of the Fort Atkinson Lutheran Church.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)