. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... year- old he came toAmerica with his father, lauding in NewYork city July u. 1821. In 1825 the fam-ily came as far west as Wooster, Ohio,where Metcalfe attended a common schoolone year, and the three following yearsstudied the German tongue, familiarizinghimself sufficiently well in this language asto qualify himself for a sale-man to pur-chasers who could understand German Wooster, Ohio, he carried on the gro-cery trade for a short time, then sold out,an
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... year- old he came toAmerica with his father, lauding in NewYork city July u. 1821. In 1825 the fam-ily came as far west as Wooster, Ohio,where Metcalfe attended a common schoolone year, and the three following yearsstudied the German tongue, familiarizinghimself sufficiently well in this language asto qualify himself for a sale-man to pur-chasers who could understand German Wooster, Ohio, he carried on the gro-cery trade for a short time, then sold out,and on June 29, [835, arrived in Kosci-usko county. Indiana. He clerked forJames Comstock about a year at Leesburg,it being then the only town in the county,and then became proprietor of the conducted it until [863, and then -old itto the late Edward Moore, he himself coin-in- to Warsaw. Metcalfe Beck was first joined in mar-riage December 22. 1S36, by Judge Com-stock, to Miss Eunice, eldest daughter ofthe Judge; but Eunice did not live long,and April 18, 1857, Mr. Beck married hissecond wife. Catherine Lewis, who died. ^eZ^^^f4^> COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. 259 May 22, [867, at the 1 Ionic on the Hill-side, at Danville, New York, whither sin:had been taken for treatment during herlast illness. The third marriage of was to Sarah, daughter of Rev. J. She was born near Trenton. XewYork, April 10, 1837, of Huguenot de-scent, and still survives. She most tenderlycared for her husband during his last ill-ness, and, indeed, during the last decade ofhis life was almost a constant attendant athis bedside, administering comforts to himthat excited the admiration and won thewannest congratulations of his manyfriends. Mr. Beck had long felt a strong desireto revisit the scenes of his youth, and inMay, 1869, accompanied by his son Hud-son (since deceased), he made a trip to hisnative Yorkshire, as well as to* Scotland;later they went to France, where they weregreat
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