Beckman, Charles J.

BECKMAN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/1/2008 at 13:42:11

Charles J. Beckman

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.14, Council Bluffs)
Charles J. Beckman, harness-maker, Council Bluffs, was born in Bavaria in 1840. He arrived in New York December 26, 1856, and started at once for Chicacgo, where he worked at his trade of harness-making. In March, 1861, he went to Naperville, Ill., where, in the following May, he enlisted in the Thirteenth Illinois Infantry, and served till NOvember 29, 1863; he was at the battle of Ringgold, Ga., and afterward, under Gen. Grant, at Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, where he lost his right arm. He was discharged in March, 1864, at Hospital No. 19, in Nashville, Tenn.; he returned to Naperville, Ill., where he remained until May 1, 1870, at which time he came to Council Bluffs and opened in business; he moved to his present location January 1, 1877, and furnishes employment to six men. Our subject is of a family of ten children; his mother is still living with him, at the age of seventy-four; his father died in Naperville, Ill., aged seventy-two. Mr. Beckman was married, in Council Bluffs, July 19, 1874, to Paulina W. Vogeler. Her parents live in Oak Township, Mills County, this State.