This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beck, Morris, Morrison, Anderson, Coblentz, Utter, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lh.2ADE/2078 Message Board Post: This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it. Typed by Lora Radiches: Surnames in this biography: Beck, Morris, Morrison, Anderson, Coblentz, Utter, Flavius J. Beck, M. D. Old and prominent Indiana families of military repute are represented in the ancestry of one of the leading medical practitioners of Bartholomew County, Dr. Flavius J. Beck, physician and surgeon at Columbus, coroner of Bartholomew County, and formerly for twenty years health officer of Hartsville. During his long and active career he has won honor and distinction in his profession and at the same time has been a contributing factor to the success of many movements, which have made for development, progress, higher morality and better citizenship. Doctor Beck was born at Newbern, Bartholomew County, Indiana, March 3, 1863, and is a son of Dr. William H. and Sarah A. (Morris) Beck, and a grandson of Maj. Samuel Beck and John Morris, Indiana pioneers. Maj. Samuel Beck settled in Indiana in 1816, on a land grant given him by the United States Government for his services as a soldier during the Black Hawk war, this property being situated in the southeast! ern –part of Columbus Township, Bartholomew County, where he became an extensive farmer and a citizen who was held in great respect and esteem. He married Elizabeth Morrison, who was a native of Ireland. Dr. William H. Beck, the father of Dr. Flavius J. Beck, was born in Bartholomew County, where he received a thorough medical training, and for many years stood at the top of his profession. During the War Between the States he served as surgeon of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and thereafter continued the practice of medicine in Indiana as long as he lived. He was a member of the county, state and national medical bodies and a physician who always was a strict observer of professional ethics and practice. Dr. Flavius J. Beck was the eldest of his parents’ eight children, all of whom had educational and social advantages. He attended the public schools of Newbern and in 1880 was graduated from Hartsville Colleg! e with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and three years later received the degree of Master of Arts from the same institution. For a time he attended the Ohio Medical College, and in 1890 was graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Doctor Beck entered into medical practice at Hartsville in 1890, and continued there until 1918, when he enlisted for service during the World war, in the United States Medical Corps, was given a captain’s commission, and was sent to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and thence to Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, for three months of military training. He finally went to Camp Humphrey’s, Virginia, and was assigned to the Second Engineers, with which contingent he remained until receiving his honorable discharge in May, 1919. In June of that year he received his commission as major in the Medical Reserve Corps. Doctor Beck continued to reside and. pr! actice for a time at Hartsville, going then to Indianapolis, and in 1925 established his residence and practice at Columbus, and to the climatic conditions and comfortable surroundings here he attributes, in large measure, the building up of his own health, which years of too close devotion to his professional duties had somewhat impaired. Doctor Beck married Miss Margaret E. Anderson, daughter of Silas F. and Sophia J. (Coblentz) Anderson, pioneer settlers of Bartholomew County from New Jersey. They have one daughter, Gertrude, who is the wife of Corp. Lloyd B. Utter, a veteran of the World war who served in Battery D, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth U. S. Field Artillery, and now occupies a public office at Columbus. Doctor Beck has always been interested as a good citizen in county politics, and has served honorably in such offices as coroner and health officer. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of the Bartholomew County Medical Society, the Ind! iana Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His modernly equipped offices are situated at 1021 Washington Street.