Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Becker Family photographs
Becker family--Photographs
UUS_P0751
2 linear feet
1 box
1875-1960
Collection of photographs of members of the Becker family, the founders of Becker Brewing Company.
English
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The Becker Brewing and Malting Company was founded in the 1890s by the Becker family and was located on the southwest corner of 19th Street and Lincoln Avenue in Ogden, Utah.
Johann Stephan "John S." Becker was born in December 1829 in Baden, Germany. He immigrated to the U.S. around age 16, settling in Winona, Minnesota, where he and a partner founded a small brewery in Sugar Loaf Village in the 1860s. By the early 1890s, John S. Becker sold his Winona brewery and, together with his eldest son Gustav Lorenzo Becker, moved to Ogden, Utah. They joined forces with brewer William Schellhas to take over and rename the local operation as Becker Brewing & Malting Company, officially established on June 6, 1892.
Albert Ernest Becker (1871-1961), born and raised in Winona, Minnesota, attended Northwestern University before serving a brewing apprenticeship in Chicago from 1890-92. Subsequently, Becker spent a year studying at the Wahl and Henius Research Laboratories. He moved to Ogden, Utah, in 1893 to serve as vice president of the Becker Brewing and Malting Company. In 1906, Becker married Josephine Aadneson of Ogden, and they adopted her nephew Blaine Julius, whose mother had died in childbirth. After she herself died at the birth of their daughter Josephine Katherine in 1909, Becker married Nell Carruth of Coalville, Utah, in 1910. They then added 5 more children (Louise Effie, John Albert, Gustave William, Robert Louis, and Frederick Carruth).
This collection contains portraits of the Becker family, primarily of Albert Ernst and Nell Carruth Becker and their children. Also included is a photograph at the Brewery with prominent members of the community, several poems written by Nell, a banking newsletter with an article on Gustav L. Becker, and an Ogden Standard Examiner newspaper section related to Snow Basin, featuring several family members.
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Permission to publish material from the Becker Family photographs must be obtained from the
Photograph Curator
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Initial Citation: Becker Family photographs
USU_P0751. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University
Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.
Following Citations:USU_P0751,
USUSCA.
Gustav Lorenz Becker photograph collection, P0361
Becker Brewing and Malting Company records, CAINE COLL MSS 31
Nancy Becker scrapbook, P0654
These materials were donated to USU Special Collections and Archives in 2022 by Karen Becker Edson, daughter of Frederick Carruth Becker.
Breweries--Utah--Ogden--History.
Home and Family
Photographs
Fred Becker
01-02
1936
1
1
Photography studio: Link-Tiffany, Ogden
G. L. Becker, Winona, Minnesota
03
1889 June 25
1
1
Photography studio: Elmer and Tenny
Unidentified man on horse
04
undated
1
1
Saddled horse, side view
05
undated
1
1
note on reverse appears to read "Jos. A Riding Aeady"
AEB [Albert Ernst Becker], GLB [Gustav Lorenzo Becker]
06
circa 1880
1
1
AEB [Albert Ernst Becker], GLB [Gustav Lorenzo Becker], possibly several years younger
07
circa 1875
1
1
Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Becker (Nell Jane Carruth) seated in front of fireplace
08
circa 1955
1
1
Albert and Nell's family: Frederick, Robert, Jack (John), Gus, Louise, Josie
09-10
circa 1924
1
1
John Stephen Becker, Albert Ernst Becker, John Albert Becker: 3 generations
11
circa 1915
1
1
The Pioneer Room of Becker Brewery, 1800 Lincoln Ave. Ogden, Utah
12
1935 October 2
1
1
Includes Niker, Albert E. Becker, Harm Peery, Marriner S. Eccles, Gustav L. Becker, Judge Howell, Marriner Browning, Doc Perkins, Val A. Browning, Abe Glasmann, George S. Eccles, Davis S. Romney, Spencer S. Eccles, E.G. Bennett, Willard S. Eccles, Wesley Anderson, Abley
Albert and Nell Becker children seated on porch
13
circa 1924
1
2
Becker children from youngest to oldest
14
circa 1924
1
2
Albert and Nell Becker
15
circa 1915
1
2
Studio portrait of Nell and Albert Becker
16
circa 1924
1
2
Photography: The Ford Studio, Ogden
Studio portrait Nell Becker
17-18
undated
1
3
Photography studio: Loveland, Ogden, Utah
Studio portrait Nell Carruth Becker
19-22
undated
1
3
Photography by John D. Eccles
Studio portrait Albert Becker
23-27
undated
1
4
Photography Blank and Stoller, New York
Paper materials
1930s-1960s
1
5
Includes poems by Nell Becker, drawing of G.L. Becker, The Thriftor newsletter dated December 1930, copy of a news feature in the Standard Examiner about Snow Basin dated January 1950