Biographical Sketches of Members of Congress, Members of the Legislature, Officers of the State Governement and judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, West Virigina, 1917 Source: West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1917, Compiled and Edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate, The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston, West Va. pgs. 719 - 770 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES pg. 722 BECKWITH, FRANK. (Democrat.) Address: Charles Town. Born in Middleway, Jefferson county, July 26, 1848; educated in the country schools and in New York; a lawyer by profession, receiving his legal training in Charles Town; member of House of Delegates in 1881 and 1887; appointed Judge Thirteenth Circuit by Governor Wilson to fill the unexpired term of Charles James Faulkner; elected to the State Senate from the Fif- teenth District in 1914; in 1917 served on the following Senate standing committees: Judiciary, Education, Banks and Corporations, Penitentiary, Federal Relations, Insur- ance, Labor, To Examine the Clerk's Office, Prohibition and Temperance. Submitted by: Valerie Crook