Background
BECK, Horace Palmer Son of Charles S. and Rosana (Byrd) Beck.
Pennsylvania 1875 b October 18 Wilkes-Barre
BECK, Horace Palmer Son of Charles S. and Rosana (Byrd) Beck.
Harry Hillman Academy. University of Pennsylvania. Postgraduate Work, Berlin, Germany and Vienna, Austria.
Y.C. Served as member of Newport, Rhode Island City Government, 1913-1926. Chairman of Committee on reorganisation of Fire Department, 1914. Chairman of Commission, Garbage Incineration, 1916.
Chairman Committee on Revision of Building, Laws, 1917. Chairman of Commission on Acquiring Coddington Point for United States Navy, 1918. Chairman United States Fuel Commission, State of Rhode Island Newport Company, 1918-1919.
Chairman Commission on Milk Supply, City of Newport, 1920. Chairman Committee on prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1920. Chairman of Committee on Street Widening, City of Newport, 1925.
Chairman, Commission on Re-bldg. Newport City Hall; Chairman of Executive Committee of the Newport Improvement Society, 1918-1930. Author of various reports, pure milk and milk pasturation.
Modern garbage incineration. Motorization of Fire Department.
Member: Chamber of Commerce. Newport Improvement Society. Newport Company and Rhode Island Medical Socs.
New England Otological Society Clubs: Reading Room (Newport), University, Boston Ida Lewis Yacht, Rotary.
Spouse Dorothy Bateman, 1920, N.