Thomas Levan Becker is about forty-eight years old, and a strong man physically and intellectually. He is the product of careful schooling, good healthful farm life and practical busienss training. On the old Becker homestead, in Millcreek, township, he grew to manhood, and in the district schools of his neighborhood procured his early education. Like the average farm boy of his time he was assigned to home tasks; in the performance of them, as well as in the mastery of his studies in school, evinced marked originality and above ordinary ability. At an early age he entered the Palatinate College of Myerstown, and later the Millersville State Normal School, wher he cultivated his literary and scientific studies. A good mathematician, also possessed of considerable legal knowledge, upon leaving school he opened an office in Millbach, and engaged in surveying and conveyancing. A master of each work he secured at once plenty of bursiness, which has stedily increased from year to year. Deriving from it a large income he has continured to follow it steadily, and is still engaged in the business. He has made a special success of conveyancing, and has served as administrator and executor for many important estates, including the one connected with the celebrated Texter will case. In 1885 he succeeded his father as director of the Lebanon National Bank, and upon the death of Grant Weidman he was made president, a position which he is still filling with marked ability. He is also a director in The Sinking Spring Fire Insurance Company of Reading, Pa. Besides his many other ventures Mr. Becker has throughout his career given considerable attention to agriculture, and now possess a splendid, well-improved 300 acrea od farm land. In 1882 Mr. Becker married Martha Stewart, of Millcreek, only daughter of Uriah B Stewart, a prominent surveyor and convetancer, of Millcreek township, who married Maria Kahl. Five children have been born to Mr and Mrs Becker, only one of whom in now living: Clarence D. Mr. Becker has always been a man of many interests, and possessed of marked executive ability, and he has managed his various affairs with thoroughness and fidelity. In politics a stanch Republican he has been active in local affairs, and has served his township very efficiently as notary public for seventeen years. Socially few if any stand higher in the community. [Biographical Annals of Lebanon County, pub 1904]