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BECKER

Nathan (Gabriel) Güdel	Gabriel (BECKER) ( -1798) Reichel (1757-1806) (Raphael {Manasses} & Goele {Salomon})	Isaac (1782-1856) Philippine LIEBENSTEIN (Kalmann & Michele {Salomon})	Moses (1813), Regina (1817), Eva (1819), Gabriel (1822), Nathan (1826), Caroline
		Judith GRÜNEWALD (Jakob {Aron, Sara} & Ester {Mayer, Judith})	Elisabetha (1833), Abraham (1835), Johannetta (1840), Sarah (1842), Magdalena (1846)
		Raphael (1784) Sare THAL (Saloman & Dine {Koppel})	Gabriel, Philipp, Regina, Sara
		Fratgen (1791) Chaim BEUTMANN (1786) (Isaac {Jacob} & Breunle {Salomon})	Gabriel (1826)
	Isaac BECKER (1759) Hanna Zippora (Moses {Löb} & Sara {Sender})	Gabriel (1794) Philippina (Joseph {Isaak} & Ella {Joseph})	Isaac (1820)
		Löw (1795) Esther KAUFMANN (Sinai & Fradge)
		Gitel
		Nathan (1801) Vögilchen LICHHOLD (Levi & Johannetta)
		Barbara (1809-1851) Jakob ROTHSCHILD ( -1883) (Mathias {Joseph, Rechle} & Jeanette {Loeb})	Mathias (1839), Isaak (1840), Henrietta (1842), Magdalena (1843), Joseph (1845), Jacob (1846), Leopold (1849), Barbara (1851)
		Bernard (1811-1897) Barbara BEITMANN ( -1893)	Jacob (1839), Catherina (1842), Isaac (1845), Helen (1848), Emma (1850), Frank (1852), Henry (1856)
	Hanna (1759) Jacob (Joseph {Isaac} & Adelheid {Jacob})
	Fradchen BECKER

Isaac Becker

Nathan, son of Gabriel, married Güdel¹, lived in Dörnbach, and had children: Gabriel, Isaac (1759), Hindel (1759), and, likely, Fradchen. In 1809, when Jews there were required to adopt permanent surnames, Isaac and Gabriel's sons (since Gabriel was deceased), Raphael and Isaac, took the surname BECKER (also spelled BEKER in some early records).

Gabriel Nathan (patronymic name) married Reichel (1757), daughter of Raphael Manasses and Goele of Rockenhausen, and had children in Dörnbach: Isaac (1782), Raphael (1784), and Fratgen (1791). After Gabriel died in Dörnbach in 1798, Reichel married Herz LEVI, son of Herz and Fradchen, in Dörnbach in 1801. Reichel died in Dörnbach in 1806.

Isaac BECKER married Philippine "Dina" LIEBENSTEIN from Börrstadt, daughter of Kalmann and Michele, in 1810, lived in Börrstadt, and had children: Moses (1813), Regina (1817), Eva (1819), Gabriel (1822), Nathan (1826), and Caroline.² After Philippine died in 1832, Isaac married Judith GRÜNEWALD from Neuhemsbach, daughter of Jakob and Esther nee ALTMOND, in Börrstadt in 1832. They had children: Elisabetha (1833), Abraham (1835), Johannetta (1840), Sarah (1842), and Magdalena (1846). After Isaac died in Börrstadt in 1856, Judith and several of her children (Abraham, Eva, Sarah, and Magdalena) immigrated to the United States in 1860.

Moses BECKER married Babette MARX from Göllheim, lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and had children: Dina (1842), Isaac (1845), Rachel (1847), Bertha (1850), Charles (1852), Emilie E. (1855), and Gabriel W. (1859). After Moses died in Philadelphia in 1872, Babette moved to New York city, where she died in 1894.

Dina BECKER died as a child in Philadelphia in 1846.
Isaac BECKER died single in Philadelphia in 1863.

Marion Babette Becker

Charles "Charles Moses" BECKER married Emma SCHIFFER, daughter of Jacob and Ada nee MOSS, in Manhattan, New York, in 1882 and had children: Emma (1884), Jack Schiffer (1886), and Ada Ray (1891). Moses died as a widow in Queens, New York, in 1930.

Emma BECKER died as an infant in Philadelphia in 1885.
Jack Schiffer BECKER married Pearl W. and died in the Bronx, New York, in 1944.

Emilie E. BECKER married Carl LANGE and died as a widow in Manhattan, New York, in 1940.
Gabriel W. BECKER married Annette H. VORENBERG, daughter of Simon and Carrie nee ROSENBAUM, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1899 and had a daughter, Marion Babette (1905). He died in Manhattan in 1907.

Regina "Rachel" BECKER married Samuel OBERBRUNNER in 1859 in Cleveland and had children Amanda (1860) and Isaac S. (1864). Rachel died in Cleveland 1882 followed by Samuel in 1895.
Eva BECKER, who remained single and lived with her sister Lena for the final thirty five years of her life, died in 1911.
Gabriel BECKER appears to have remained in Börrstadt.


Abraham G. Becker ^[2]	Nathan Becker ^[1]

Nathan BECKER married Henrietta SCHAFFNER from Eppelsheim, in Cleveland in 1853 and had children: Rachel Marion (1854) in Cleveland; Viola Henrietta (1855) and Abraham G. (1857) in Warsaw, Ohio. Henrietta died in Chicago in 1895, followed by Nathan in 1907.

Rachel Marion BECKER married Herman SCHAFFNER from Hesse-Darmstadt, son of Nathan (possibly a brother of the above Henrietta) and Hanna, lived in Chicago, and had children: Arthur (1874), Robert (1876), Walter (1878), and Marion. Rachel died in Chicago in 1943.
Viola BECKER married Isaac STERN and died in Chicago in 1936.
Abraham G. BECKER married Katie FRIEDMAN, daughter of Jacob and Henrietta nee KAHN, and had children: Helen (1888), Louise (1891), James Herman (1894), and Margaret Henrietta (1898). Abraham died in Chicago in 1925.

Helen BECKER married Frank Leopold SULZBERGER and died in 1964.
Louise BECKER married SHIRE and died in 1973.
James Herman BECKER married Hortense KOLLER in 1928 and died in Chicago in 1970.
Margaret Henrietta BECKER married Herbert A. FRIEDLICH and died in 1990.

Caroline BECKER married Benedikt ALEXANDER, lived in Odenbach, and had children: Charles (1848) and Johanna (1858).

Charles ALEXANDER married Louise GREENBAUM, lived in Chicago, and had children: Celia (1874), Hanna (1876), Leo (1879), Delia (1879), and Bennie (1881). Charles died in Matoon, Illinois, in 1936.


Fannie (Becker) Rose ^[3]	Eliza (Becker) Hays

Lena (Becker) Simon

Elisabetha "Eliza" BECKER, who immigrated earlier than the rest of the family in 1851 and married Marx HAYS in Cleveland in 1854. They had children: Emma (1856), Sarah (1858), David (1860), Isaac (1862), Moses M. (1866), and Jacob M. (1869). She died in 1920.
Abraham BECKER, a dry goods merchant, married Rosina GOLDSMITH nee RHEINHEIMER from Hirschberg, Bavaria, former wife of Elias GOLDSMITH, in Cleveland in 1862 and had children: Carrie (1857) and Addie (1866). He died in Cleveland in 1887.

Addie BECKER married Philip BETTER from Hungary in Cleveland in 1886 and had two children, Albert (1887) and Harold (1890). She died there in 1932.
Carrie BECKER married Abraham GREENWALD from Kentucky, son of Jacob and Barbara, in Cleveland in about 1879 and had at least two sons, Jacob (1881) and Gilbert (1885).

Johannetta "Fannie" BECKER immigrated to America in 1859. She married Leopold ROSE in Cleveland in 1868 and had children: Edward (1868), Albert (1870), Charles (1872), and Minnie (1874). She moved with her family to Chattanooga, Tennessee, in about 1875 and had at least one more child, Gilbert (1876). Fanny died in 1907.
Sarah BECKER married Leopold BENEDICT, son of Abraham and Klara nee LÖWENSTEIN, about 1866 and had children born in Cleveland: Isaac M. (1867), Abraham L. (1868), Edward Andrew (1870), Robert Joseph (1873), and Eleanor (1876). She died in 1900.
Magdalena "Lena" BECKER married Adolph SIMON in 1869 in Cleveland and had children: Isaac B. (1871), Minnie M. (1873), Alexander A. (1875), Elanore (1878), Eugene (1880), Henrietta P. (1884), Gilbert G. (1887), and Ruby E. (1890). Adoph died in 1894 followed by Lena in 1914.

Raphael BECKER married Sare THAL (1785) from Imsbach, daughter of Saloman and Dine Koppel, in Dörnbach in 1809 and had at least four children: Gabriel, Philipp, Regina, and Sara.

Sara BECKER married Salomon LOEB.

Fratgen "Veronique" BECKER married Chaim "Adam" BEUTMANN, son of Isaac and Breunle Salomon, in Dielkirchen in 1813 and had a son, Gabriel (1826).

Isaac BECKER married Hanna Zippora, daughter of Moses Löb and Sara Sender, and had children: Gabriel (1794), Löw (1795), Gitel, Nathan (1801), Barbara (1809), and [possibly] Bernard (1811).

Gabriel BECKER married Philippina, daughter of Joseph, son of Isaak, and Ella, daughter of Joseph, in Dörnbach in 1814 and had at least one son Isaac (1820).

Isaac BECKER married Helena DREYFUSS from Marienthal in 1850 and had at least six children: Emilie (1850), Rosa (1854), Simon Max (1855), Flora (1859), Albert E. (1860), Henry (1862), Moses Waldorf (1863), Clara (1865), and Otto Godfrey (1867). The whole family immigrated to America. Isaac and Helena died in Chicago in 1897 and 1898, respectively.

Emilie BECKER immigrated to America in 1864 and married Joseph ALTSCHUL from Oberlustadt, Bavaria, son of Samuel and Regina nee BEHR, in about 1867. Joseph's brother, Adolph, who lived in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was the great-grandfather of Julius Lester, the well-known African American Jewish author. Joseph and Emilie had at least five children, including Rose (1871), Oscar (1873), and Charles A. (1874). Emilie resided primarily in Chicago and died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1925.
Rosa BECKER married Samuel WALDBOTT about 1870 and had at least three children: Eugene S. (1872) and Camill R. (1874). She died in Chicago in 1934.


Moses Waldorf Becker ^[4]	Simon Max Becker ^[4]

Otto Godfrey Becker ^[5]

Simon Max "S. Max" BECKER immigrated to America in 1872. Until 1881, he lived in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. In 1882, he immigrated to Chicago, Illinois, as a dealer in wool and furs, and married Lilly HIRSH in 1891. They had at least three children: Robert Gabriel (1892), Florence E. (1897), and Simon Max, Jr. (1905).

Robert Gabriel BECKER married Florence SCHNADIG and died in Chicago in 1936.
Florence E. BECKER married Irving G. LEDERER in 1917 and died in Chicago in 1983.
Simon Max "S. Max" BECKER, Jr. married Marion Louise GOODMAN, daughter of Milton and Sadie, in 1946. He died in Chicago in 1977.

Flora BECKER married Jacob FRANK in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1880. She died in 1885.
Albert E. BECKER married Leonora BLUTHENTHAL in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1895. He died in 1901.
Moses Waldorf BECKER married Louise DECKER in Chicago in 1893 and had at least five children: Clara (1894), Erwin A. (1896), Gertrude (1898), Alfred (1900), and Richard Max (1902).

Richard Max BECKER died in San Francisco in 1971.

Clara BECKER remained single and died in Chicago in 1887.
Otto Godfrey "O. Godfrey" BECKER married Florence R. WILER in Chicago in 1897 and died there in 1922.

Löw "Lion" BECKER married Esther KAUFMANN from Odenbach, daughter of Sinai and Fradge, in Dörnbach in 1819. He married Sara DALSHEIMER from Niederkirchen, daughter of Leopold and Bayer, in Dörnbach in 1820.
Nathan BECKER married Vögilchen "Carolina" LICHHOLD from Bosenbach, daughter of Levi and Johanetta, in Rockenhausen in 1829.
Barbara BECKER married Jakob "Coppel" ROTHSCHILD from Sien, son of Eliser and Jeanette Wolf, in Sien in 1838 and had children: Mathias (1839), Isaak (1840), Henrietta (1842), Magdalena (1843), Joseph (1845), Jacob (1846), Leopold (1849), and Barbara (1851). After Barbara died in Sien in 1851, Jakob immigrated to the United States and died in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1883.
Bernard BECKER married Barbara BEITMANN and had children: Jacob (1839), Catherina (1842), Isaac (1845), Helen (1848), Emma (1850), Frank (1852), Henry (1856). The family lived in Erie, Pennsylvania, where they used the surname BAKER. Barabara died in 1893 followed by Bernard in 1897.

Isaac BAKER married Bertha EINHORN from Koppstaetten, Oldenburg, daughter of David and Julie Henriette nee ORHIS, in Manhattan, New York, in 1869 and had children: Clara (1871), Alfred (1872), Belle (1874), Edde (1875), and Florence (1877). He died in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1929.

Alfred BAKER married Blanche GOLDMAN. He was the president of clothing company "Isaac Baker & Son, Inc." Alfred died in Erie in 1957.
Belle BAKER died in Erie in 1962.
Florence BAKER married Max CURRICK and died in Erie in 1949.

Emma BAKER married Jacob OSTHEIMER and had children: Clara M. (1862), Isaac (1864), Mortimer (1876), Marion L. (1878), and Arthur G. (1884). She died in Erie in 1935.

Henry Baker ^[6]

Henry BAKER married Sarah MANDELBAUM, daughter of Jacob and Mary nee SCHWAB, in Cleveland in 1881 and had children: Henry Clay (1884) and James Mandelbaum (1887). He died in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929.

Henry Clay BAKER married Anna Goldie WASSERMAN, daughter of Samuel and Sarah nee BERNSTEIN, in Cleveland in 1922. He later married Jane MASTERS in Cleveland in 1960. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1976.
James Mandelbaum BAKER married Harriette B. KNOX, daughter of Jno. and Jeanne nee JOHNSTON, in Cleveland in 1913. He died in Los Angeles, California, in 1963.

Hindel "Hanna" Nathan married Mendel "Jacob" Joseph from Niederwiesen, son of Joseph Isaac (also known as Isaac Joseph) and Adelheid "Ella" Jacob. After Hanna (also known as Hanna Jacob, referencing her husband Jacob) died in Dörnbach in 1825, Jacob married Gütel Feil "Veronica" JACOB from Dörrmoschel, daughter of Herz Jacob and and Gütel "Hanna" Feis, in Dörrmoschel in 1826.
Fradchen Nathan is recorded as a "servant" of Manasses GOTTLIEB (brother-in-law of Isaac BECKER), son of Raphael Manasses and Goele of Rockenhausen, in the surname adoption records of Rockenhausen. She took the name Jeanette BECKER.

Research Notes

1. The source of this information is the banns for the marriage of Joseph Jacob and Gütel Feil Jacob in Dörnbach in 1826. The third document is a death record of Hanna Jacob, the deceased former wife of Joseph Jacob. The witnesses to the record are Joseph Jacob and Gabriel Becker, cousin of the deceased. Hanna is described as having died in Dörnbach house no. 86 in 1825 at 66 years old, a daughter of the deceased Nathan Gabriel of Dörnbach and his wife Güdel.

2. The primary source for some of these names is the newspaper citation in Pfälzer Zeitung (12 July 1860), which lists the children of Isaac Becker. There are two additional birth records from the register of Börrstadt, Gertruda (1822), and Ester (1824), but these have not yet been linked to one of these names.

Sources

[1] Chicago Newspaper Obituary

[2] Meites, Hyman L. History of the Jews of Chicago. Jewish Historical Society of Illinois, 1924. p. 293.

[3] The David Gross Family Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville 28804

[4] Chicago Tribune, November 24, 1918.

[5] Belden, Albert L. The Fur Trade of America and Some of the Men Who Made and Maintain It: Together with Furs and Fur Bearers of Other Continents and Countries and Islands of the Sea. New York: Peltries Pub. Co, 1917.

[6] Cleveland Jewish Independent, August 16, 1929.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Nancy Grossman (msgnan@gmail.com), professional genealogist, for her help in uncovering the history of this family.