Hortense Becker Name: Hortense Becker Born: N/A Joined AGB: 1928 Primary Dept/Div: Executive (spouse) Primary Office: Chicago Hortense (Hort) Becker graduated from Barnard College, and worked for the Herald Tribune when she met James H. Becker, and they were married in 1928, as reported in the Chronicle. As related to the author, Hort remembered traveling…

Nathan Becker Name: Nathan Becker Born: 1821 Joined AGB: 1893 Primary Dept/Div: Executive Primary Office: Chicago Nathan Becker was A.G. Becker’s father. He had a small stock interest in the original corporation. He must have been very proud of his son to have developed a successful business, and than have the moral strength to find…

Abraham Gamliel Becker Born: September 21, 1857  (IAnother source: 9/24/1857) Joined AGB: 1893 Primary Dept/Div: Executive Primary Office: Chicago Abraham G. Becker came to Chicago in 1865 from Warsaw, OH where he was born Sept. 21, 1857. He began his career as an errand boy for the German National Bank. In 1878 he was made a…

James H. Becker Name: James H. Becker Born: December 11, 1894 Joined AGB: 1921 Primary Dept/Div: Executive Primary Office: Chicago James H. Becker, Chicago, joined his father and colleagues at A.G. Becker & Co. in 1921. He worked in all phases of the business and became President in 1946. He married Hortense W. Koller, of…

Jerry I. Beebe Name: Jerry I. Beebe Born: May 10, 1933 Joined AGB: 1976 Primary Dept/Div: Accounting Primary Office: Chicago As of 7/16/1977: Jerry I. Beebe, Chicago, is vice president and manager of Market Maker Accounts activities for Becker Securities. Jerry rejoined BSC in 1976 as manager of CBOE Market Maker Clearing after several years…

Paul A. Blaney Name: Paul A. Blaney Born: July 30. 1933 Joined AGB: 1967 Primary Dept/Div: Investment Research Primary Office: New York As of 7/15/1977: Paul Blaney was born in 1933 and raised in NYC. He graduated from Iona College (1955) and from the MBA Progam at NYU (1960) He joned Becker in 1967, having…

Edward Blettner Name: Edward Blettner Born: 1908 Joined AGB: 1971 Primary Dept/Div: Executive Primary Office: Chicago The relationship between the A.G. Becker firm and the First National Bank went back to the early 1900s when A.G. Becker was a friend of James Forgan, then President of First National. The friendship extended through Edgar Eagle Brown…

Jordan R. Bloom Name: Jordan R. Bloom Born: February 20, 1933 Joined AGB: 1968 Primary Dept/Div: Specialist Primary Office: Chicago As of 7/15/1977: Jordan R. Bloom. Chicago, is vice president and manager of Chicago Trading unit activities with Becker Securities. Jordy joined the firm in 1968 as a floor broker on the MWSE after more…

Max Bosshard Name: Max Bosshard Born: May 2, 1924 Joined AGB: 1970 Primary Dept/Div:  International Markets Primary Office: Geneva As of 7/15/1977: Max Bosshard, Geneva, is vice president and sales manager of the Geneva office, Becker Securities Corporation, S.A. He joined A.G. Becker in 1970 after some 21 years with Hirsch & Co. where he…

Russell H. (Buck) Boyd Name: Russell H. (Buck) Boyd Born: Joined AGB: 1927 Primary Dept/Div: Sales Management Primary Office: Albany Russell (Buck) Boyd joined A.G. Becker shortly after A.G. Becker died. He presumably was hired by Vladamar Johnson as part of the New York and “Eastern Region” expansion after 1924. It is not known why…