Biography

1861 - 07/07/1908

BECK, Allen S., a Representative from Berks County; born, 1861 in Allentown, Leigh County, Pa.; machinist, P & R shops, Reading; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1888 and 1890; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); foreman, machine shop, Long Island Railroad; died, July 7, 1908 in New York City, Queens County, New York; interred, Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.