BELSER FAMILY HISTORY
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The Belser Family Tree shows the relationship among and photos of the people whose speeches,  memoirs and biographies appear on this page.  This chart and photos are the same as in Appendix A of Memoirs of a Late 20th Century Engineer by Karl Arnold Belser.



Karl Arnold Belser, Memoirs of a Late 20th Century Engineer is a book of stories and many photos from the life of Karl Arnold Belser (pdf 6.3 MB), or listen to an  MP3 Sound Recording by Chapter.  The stories in this book were written during 2004, 2005 and 2006.



A Drop of Experience is Karl Arnold Belser's first short story, written when he was 15.  This fiction story should be compared to the true story, Reverence for Life, from Memoirs of  a Late 20th  Century Engineer.



Prints by Karl Arnold Belser
is a collection of linoleum block prints made in 1961 and 1962,



The life of Karl Jacob Belser is an autobiograpnical outline fo Karl Jacob Belser's life.



Karl Jacob Belser Memorial Service is a speech given by Reverend Dan Lyon, a Unitarian Minister.




The drawings by Karl Jacob Belser is a collection of drawings at Virginia Institute of Technology (formerly Virginia Polytechnical Institute) that were done in the 1930s.



The water color paintings of Karl Jacob Belser are some of the paintings in the possession of Karl A. Belser.



Crater Lake Drawings by Karl Jacob Belser are from the book Blue Interval by Ernest G. Moll published in 1935.




Biograpny of Wilma Blanche Beckman (Belser) is a speech by Karl Arnold Belser given at the dedication cerimony of the Wilma Beckman Auditorium at Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, Illinois.  The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation donated the library.



Biography of Arnold Orville Beckman was prepared by Eugenii Katz based on input from The Chemical Heritage Society and the Archives of the California Institute of technology.



A Speech at Arnold Orville Beckman's Memorial
given by Karl Arnold Belser in May 2004 at a memorial gathering at the Beckman Center on the University of California, Irvine Campus.  This speech was adapted from the story,1985 - My Inheritance, from Memoirs of  a Late 20th  Century Engineer.



The following essays were prepared for Arnold Orville Beckman's 99th birthday.

Short biography of Karl Arnold Belser for the guest book.
Reclooections of Uncle Arnie  by Karl A. Belser
* Short biograpny of Lawrence Walter Belser for the guest book.
* Recollections of Uncle Arnie  by Lawrence W. Belser.



Memoir's of George Beckman is a collection of annecdotes dictated to his daughter, Wilma Belser, in about 1942.  George Beckman is the maternal grandfather of Karl Arnold Belser.



Autiobioraphy of Herman Frederich Belser tells the story of how a teacher's son came from Mossingen Germany to the United States to become a Lutheran minister.  Herman Frederich Belser
is the father of Martin Luther Belser, the paternal grandfather of Karl Arnold Belser.



About Jacob Sheetz  is part of a history of New Washington, Ohio.  Jacob Sheetz is the father of Emma, the paternal grandmother of Karl Arnold Belser.




Last Updated April 12, 2006
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