R. W. BEESON

BEESON

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 13:38:10

R. W. BEESON, the present County Attorney of Montgomery county, is a brother of Allen Beeson, a well known pioneer lawyer of Red Oak, where he located in 1863. He now resides at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, where he is engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a native of
Highland county, Ohio, as is also the subject of this sketch. The latter was born in 1848,
the son of Jehu Beeson, a native of the same county, born in 1807, and died at the age of sixty-seven years. The parental grandfather of Mr. Beeson was born at Guilford Court House, North Carolina, and was a pioneer of Highland county, Ohio. Our subject was one of a family of fifteen children, seven sons and eight daughters, and received his primary education at the public schools, afterward graduating at Hedding College, at Abingdon, Knox county, Illinois. He was engaged in the profession of teaching for a number of years, and was for four years principal of the school at Maquon, Illinois. His career as a teacher was comprised between the years 1871 and 1876. He first came to Red Bluff in 1867, for the purpose of pursuing the study of law with his brother, who was then in practice in this city, but deciding that a more thorough
literary education would be a better foundation for the legal profession, he went to Illinois and pursued a college course as above stated. Mr. Beeson was admitted to the bar at Red Oak in 1877, but afterward located at Hastings, Nebraska, and after a few months returned to Iowa and located in Clarke county, where he continued until 1878, and then returned to Red Oak.
He is now (1891) serving his third term as County Attorney, having been first elected in 1886. His long continuance in the office he now occupies is an evidence of the confidence in his integrity and ability on the part of the public. He is a gentleman of culture, and an able and successful lawyer.

Mr. Beeson was married at Maquon, Illinois, in 1872, to Miss G. Grove, a native of Highland county, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Bessie, born in 1873. Politically Mr. Beeson is a Republican, and strongly attached to the principles of that great national party.