When William Harlan Beck was born on 13 May 1911, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, John Albert Beck, was 43 and his mother, Sarah Jane Phillips, was 41. He married Maud Atkinson Rich on 5 January 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920 and Washington, District of Columbia, United States for about 5 years. He died on 13 April 1988, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from northern Middle English bekke ‘stream’ (Old Norse bekkr).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France named Bec, for example Bec Hellouin in Eure, named with Old Norman French bec ‘stream’, from the same Old Norse root as in 1 above.
English: from the Middle English personal name Becke (Old English Becca or Beocca), of uncertain origin.
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