Henry C. Beck

       
   Henry C. Beck, the efficient and affable register of Hamilton County, was born on the 10th of March, 1853, in the county where he now resides, and which has been his home through life. His father, Joshua Beck, was a native of North Carolina and immigrated to this county at the early period of 1822. He here wedded Margaret Hixson, a native of Hamilton County, Tenn., and they became one of the county's best and most respected families. They followed agricultural pursuits until the death of the father, August 5, 1886, since when the widow has lived a retired life near Chattanooga. Henry C., the immediate subject of this biography, was reared and mostly educated in his native county, although, for a time, he attended school at Athens, Tenn. He first began his public career in August, 1874, when he was elected to the office of county register; so, efficiently did he fill the requirements of this position that he was re-elected at the end of his term, and twice thereafter re-elected, and is now serving his fourth term in that office. Mr. Beck also fills the positions of secretary of the Northside Steamboat & Ferry Company, secretary of the Grandview Cemetery, and is a director in the Mutual Real Estate and Home Building Association. To his marriage with Miss Rhoda D. Wexler, a native of Sullivan County, this State, there have been born two sons and one daughter, one son being now deceased.

Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887