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ELIAS BECKER is one of the farmers of Busti town who pays strict attention to his agricultural work and thereby usually has good crops. He is a son of Abram and Margaret (Stom) Becker and was born in the town of Ellery, this county, October 28, 1825. The paternal grandfather, Adam Becker, was of German extraction and came to Chautauqua county from Herkimer county when this country was new and comparatively wild. He secured a farm and continued to till its soil until his death. Abram Becker was a. native of Herkimer county, and came to Chautauqua when a boy with his father. They lived for many years in Ellery town, where he followed farming until well advanced in life, when he retired from active business and moved into the village of Fluvanna, where he died, aged sixty-seven years. Abram Becker was a democrat, a sterling, pushing, energetic man, and he died when sixty-seven years old, consoled by his faith in the Christian church. His wife, Margaret Stom, was a native of Ellery town; she too was a communicant of the Christian church and died in 1851, aged forty-six years.

Elias Becker was reared on his father’s farm where he worked during the summer and attended the common schools in the winter, thereby securing the education which has carried him through life. He is the owner of a highly improved farm of one-hundred and six and one-half acres in the town of Busti, located on the road running from Jamestown to Busti.

Mr. Becker has been married twice, first in Ellery to Mary M. Wiard, a daughter of Plum Wiard; she died in 1851, leaving no children. For his second wife he took Ellenore L. Miller, a daughter of John Miller, of the town of Ellery; by this last union they have one child living, a daughter Lena, who is now the wife of Lorenzo Denn, who was a farmer living near subject’s home. Elias Becker belongs to the Baptist church at Busti, in which he holds the responsible and honorable position of trustee; he is also a member of the Grange, a society devoted to advancing the interests of farmers; politically he is a republican, wide-awake, enterprising and public-spirited and all improvements calculated to benefit the section of the country in which he lives find him a ready and enthusiastic supporter. Mr. Becker has attained the position he now occupies by industry and economy and he appreciates the fact that all wealth is derived from toil.