Biography

08/13/1849 - 02/18/1930

BECK, William K., a Representative from Lackawanna County; born, August 13, 1849 in Lockport, Northumberland County, Pa.; graduated, Wyoming Seminary, 1869; attended, Easton University; bookkeeper; proprietor, lumber mill; engaged, electric light business; co-owner and treasurer, lath strip business; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1892; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1894); unsuccessful campaign, treasurer, Lackawanna County (1894); unsuccessful campaign, register of wills, Scranton (1897, 1900, 1903); elected, secretary, Lackawanna County Republican Committee (1903); died, February 18, 1930 in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; interred, Moscow Cemetery, Moscow, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.