TY - JOUR KW - Biographies KW - Politicians KW - Germans KW - Baden KW - Berlin (Ontario) KW - Wilmot Township KW - New Hope KW - Preston AU - Arthur Carty AB - A profile of the native of Baden, Ontario stressing his achievements in the iron foundry and milling business, politics, and the distribution of hydro-electrical power in southwestern Ontario. The article mentions Beck's early life in Baden and also his father, Jacob Beck, and his uncle, Jacob Hespeler, as notable men of Waterloo County. BT - Waterloo Historical Society C1 - Beck, Adam; Beck, Jacob; Beck, Frederick; Beck, Charlotte Hespeler (m. Jacob); Hespeler, George; Breithaupt, W.H.; Yoeste, Mr; Erb, John; Clemens, Abraham C.; Panabaker, D.N.; Shantz, Peter E.; Clare, John; Wahn, Valentine; Hunt, Robert; Tassie, William; Hill, James J.; Beck, Lillian Ottaway (m. Adam); Stevenson, H.A., Dr C2 - Grand Trunk Railway; Galt Grammar School; Tassie's School, Galt; Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario C3 - Baden; Hespeler; Germany, Württemberg, Ehningen; Germany, Baden, Weiler; Wilmot Tp; New Hope; Preston C4 - 1837-1925 C7 - English(30) DP - Elizabeth Bloomfield. WATERLOO REGIONAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY SYSTEM. Most pre-1993 items are also included in the print work Waterloo County to 1972: an Annotated Bibliography of Regional History. Kitchener: Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1993. ID - 2468 LA - English M1 - Journal Article M3 - Print(0) PY - 1925 SP - 159 EP - 166. ill. EP - T1 - Sir Adam Beck T2 - Waterloo Historical Society VL - 13 ER -