He was the only child of Washington Becker, a New York lawyer and president of Marine National Bank, and Sarah Worthing Merrill.

He retired in 1937, moving to a 2,000 acre dairy farm in upstate New York where he died on February 5, 1949, at age 72.

[2][3][4][5] On November 21, 1906, as mayor of Milwaukee, Becker attended the Packy McFarland versus Kid Herman boxing bout at the Davenport Coliseum in Iowa.

He traveled by special train leaving from Chicago's La Salle Station to Davenport at 1PM.

[6] In 1906 Mayor Becker ordered the city's street clocks removed officially claiming they obstructed sidewalks.