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Leamon Becker |
| Is the only son of
Barton Becker,
Esq. He was born in 1836 in Waterford, where he has since resided. Mr. Becker received a good education and entered
his father's store as a clerk, where he acquired those business habits which have
contributed to his subsequent success. In 1869 he entered into partnership with his
brother-in-law, Mr. Foster, and began business as a general merchant in the store he now
occupies; after two years Mr. Foster retired from the firm, and the business has since
been carried on with invaried success by Mr. Becker alone. He has added a tailoring
department, and his stock of general goods is the largest and most varied kept by any
merchant in the county, except perhaps one or two in Simcoe. Mr. Becker is shrewd and
pushing, and has risen to be to-day one of the most enterprising, popular, and successful
merchants in "Glorious Old Norfolk."
Although the demands of his business make it impossible for Mr. Becker to hold any municipal or other public office, his means and influence are always freely employed in aid of any undertaking having for its object the social, religious, or material prosperity of the neighborhood in which he resides. In 1864, Mr. Becker married Miss Mary F. Sovereign, a daughter of Leonard Sovereign,
Esq. |
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| To Atlas' biographical sketch of Mr. Becker's son Leamon From page 102 of the Mika re-print of 1877 Illustrated Historical Atlas of Norfolk County Copyright 1998-2012 John Cardiff |