Beckwith, Warren Age: 45 Year:1920 Birthplace: Iowa Roll:T625_130 Race: White Page:5A State: California ED:238 County: San Diego Image:686 Township: Coronado

He was a member of the football team at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. From "Lincoln's Granddaughter Eloped To Milwaukee" by Lester W. Olson: "The Milwaukee Journal reporter said of Warren: 'Young Beckwith was a harum-scarum young fellow devoted to athletics, belonging to the local college football and basketball teams, a good horseman, bicyclist, boxer and shot, but with a decided aversion to educational matters and the confining requirements of a business career.' He added, however, that Beckwith had no particularly bad habits and was just such a fellow as would attract the attention of a romantically inclined girl." He was "one of her schoolmates at Iowa Wesleyan College." "star right half-back on football team." Great nephew of General Lew Wallace. Inherited a large fortune from his father when he died in 1905. He moved to La Jolla, CA in 1938. In an interview with the "Chicago Tribune" on March 20, 1953 he is described as a slim, gray haired man living in a delightful, flower-girded home above the Pacific surf. He had been an active hunter and golfer until a heart ailment curtailed his activity. In an article titled "Grid Player, Sweetheart Elope": Jason Randall was born & raised in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. A boyhood friend of his, F. M. Lafforge, wrote a letter on March 12, 1957 which is quoted by the unnamed author of this article: "In 1940 and many years thereafter I made a trip to the West Coast. I found Warren living in La Jolla, and I often stopped to visit him. On one visit (1948) Warren explained that he and Jessie had separated in 1907, or 10 years after their marriage. This subject was brought up by the news that Jessie had just died in Manchester, Vt., on the old Robert Lincoln summer homestead. In the conversation, it developed that, due to ill-health, Jessie Lincoln in her later years had grown to a weight of 400 pounds before her death."