Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

The most active member of the Beecher family now living is the Rev. Thomas K. Beocher, pastor of the Park church in Elmira. He is a tall, broad-shouldered mani,- sixtynine years old, with a plentiful brown beard now tinged with white and is fond of billiards, bowling and tricycling. He has been settled over the Elmira church since 1854, and has made it a power in the community. Henry Villard's friends say he is getting ready fora long and perhaps permanent stay in Germany, and that as soon as he has shown some of the German friends who are now visiting him some of the wonders of the World’s Fair, and. incidentally, the wonders of America, he will close both his New York houses and give himself up with delight to the fascinations of music and the enjoyable spending of an income whose principal is snugly invested in American securities, which will stand as long a-> the government does. Mr. Villard is reputed to be worth some 000,000.