From History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania:
Frank Becker, proprietor of the White House hotel and restaurant, McKeesport, was born in Versailles township, Allegheny county, Pa.. Dec. 26, 1859. He is a son of Christoph Becker and Mary A. Richart, natives of Mainz, Germany. They settled in this country in 1857, in Versailles township, where he engaged in farming, and in 1868 they removed to McKeesport and purchased the property now occupied by Frank Becker (our subject), which the father conducted as a hotel until his death, in 1881. They raised a family of eight children: John (deceased), Lizzie, Frank, William J., Annie, Christoph L.. Katie (deceased) and George C.