File:Grave of former mayor Philip Becker, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York - 20211004.jpg
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English: As seen at Forest Lawn Cemetery in October 2021, the gravesite of former Buffalo, New York mayor Philip Becker (1830-1898) and his family. Becker was a native of Oberotterbach, Bavaria who worked as a grocer before entering politics as a Republican and serving three non-consecutive two-year terms as mayor (1876-1877 and 1886-1889) as well as being a delegate to the 1876 Republican National Convention. Becker is arguably most historically notable as a pioneer and champion of German-American culture in Buffalo, being not only the city's first mayor of that ethnic extraction, but also a co-founder and president of the Buffalo German Insurance Company) and one of the principals behind the construction of the music hall on Main Street downtown, which hosted the 1883 iteration of the great German Sängerfest. His tombstone, a truncated obelisk of polished black Quincy granite, was crafted by McDonnell & Sons and was the heaviest such structure ever manufactured in its day, weighing in at 48 tons. |
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