Bios: FREDERICK G. BEER, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      FREDERICK G. BEER,
  
  [p. 970] a well-known business man of New Castle, proprietor of the Oak
  Park Monumental Works, situated near the Oak Park cemetery, New Castle,
  was born May 8, 1863, in England, and is a son of Eli S. B. and Emeline
  (Aunger) Beer.
  
  Eli S. B. Beer died in 1903. Like his father and grandfather, he was a
  marble and granite worker, and probably there were few others who
  reached such perfection in monumental work, the branch to which he
  especially directed his efforts. He won a medal for being one of the
  most expert granite workers at the London Exposition, in 1862, and the
  statute [sic] which gained him this coveted distinction now stands in
  the great London Museum. In 1870 he came to America and eighteen months
  later was joined by his wife and their eight children. He had obtained
  the position of superintendent of the stone work on the bridge crossing
  from Buffalo, N. Y., to Fort Erie, Canada, and he established his family
  at the latter place. Subsequently he entered the employ of the Lake
  Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad and did the stone work on the double
  track railroad between Buffalo and Cleveland, and this work brought him
  to Ashtabula, Ohio, to which place he transferred his family in 1873.
  When his contract with the railroad was completed, he started into the
  monument business and continued in the same until his death, after which
  his son, Frederick G., as administrator of his estate, sold the works to
  John A. Beer, one of the sons of Eli S. B., who still operates them at
  Ashtabula.
  
  Frederick G. Beer served a seven years' apprenticeship with his father,
  learning the monument business, after which he worked some years at the
  trade in Pittsburg, and in 1898 he came to New Castle, where he has
  built up a large and growing business. At Ashtabula, Ohio, Mr. Beer was
  married to Elizabeth Tanner and they have four children?Mabel, Gertrude,
  Frederick and Kenneth. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the P. H. C.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
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