The earliest known records of the Beischel family is a marriage written in the catholic church records from Gottenheim, Germany. This marriage was between Andreas Beischel and Catharina Schwenginger  on 18 June, 1773. The records suggested that Andreas had moved to Gottenheim from Zell im Wiesental, Germany. However, records in Zell were destroyed by fire in the 1800's and thus no older records of the Beischel family have been found.

The descendants of Andreas and Catharina continued living in Gottenheim for three more generations. One of their many great-grandchildren, Christian Beischel, was born on 14 June, 1828 in Gottenheim.  He spent his early childhood in the bucolic German village, however his mother, Maria Hess, passed away in 1835 when Christian was only 7 years old. Christian's father, Mathias Beischel, would pass in 1850, leaving Christian without parents at 22 year old.

Census records for Christian Beischel indicated that he immigrated to the United States in 1840. However, considering that Christian would have been only 12 years old, this is probably not correct. Instead, its reasonable that Christian immigrated sometime after the death of his father in 1850. Currently, no immigration records have been located for Christian. In 1861, Christian was definitely living in the United States as evidenced by his marriage to Mary Smith that year in Cincinnati. Christian remarried to Rosa Roos a year later, after the death of Mary. In 1863, military records show that Christian enlisted in the Union, however he did not engage in any combat.

The available records for Christian Beischel have been partially corroborated by his grandson, Victor Beischel who provided a short history of his grandparents during an interview in 1976:

"My grandfather, Christian Beischel came to this country in 1850 from Baden-Baden, Germany.  He came over on a sailboat that took 56 days and he settled in Cincinnati because he knew someone here that would befriend him.  The friend took him to a hotel and got him to drive a dray on the Ohio riverfront.  While doing that he met a doctor who was a very fine man who had a very fine home in Price Hill.  He wanted Christian to take care of his gardens, his flowers, his horses and whatever else they had in those days.  While he was working with the doctor he found out that he owned a farm in Delhi.  He had sold it to the Short estate.  The doctor took him out there to see it and he arranged a lease with the Short estate.  He married an Irish girl named Mary Smith as his first wife, but she died with their first child and the child died also. He then hired two men who helped with the household work and the farm work.  Both of these men gave him an ultimatum one day that either he get a woman to take care of the house or they would quit.  About a half an hour later what was to be my maternal grandmother [Rosas Roos] came across the yard to talk.  She had been to the house for Mary’s layout.  My mother [Josephine Beischel] always joked that the horsehair sofa that she saw there that day had a lot to do with the attraction she had for my grandfather! She helped them drop potatoes and then they went to see Father Metzgar at Our Lady of Victory Church.  I think he married them before the prescribed three Sundays that had to be published in the bulletin.  They lived where the Western Hills Country Club is today, and up until a few years ago, part of the original house that my father was born in.  My father [William Beischel] was born in 1863 in February and stayed there until he married my mother [Josephine Beischel].

Victor Beischel was born on 30 September, 1892, on a farm in Monfort Heights, west of Cincinnati. Victor married Edith Frey, the storekeeper’s daughter, in Groesback on 18 October, 1916.  Together they had seven sons and two daughters.