Biography

08/01/1839 - 09/10/1911

BECKERT, Augustus, a Representative from Allegheny County; born in Troy Hill, Allegheny County, Pa., August 1, 1839; private, Company A, 74th Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1868 term; elected, postmaster, Pennsylvania House of Representatives; elected, commissioner, Allegheny County (1873-1878); appointed, jury commissioner, Allegheny County; vice president, Teutonia Fire Insurance Company; died, September 10, 1911 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.