BEAN, Dr. John Victor 1843 - 1919

BEAN, GREENLEAF, WILSON, POWELL, REED

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"The Fairfield Daily Journal"
Tuesday, January 7, 1919
Page 2, Column 2

DR. J. V. BEAN PASSED AWAY EARLY THIS MORNING

Dr. J. V. BEAN, City Health Officer of Fairfield, and one of the well known citizens of Fairfield, died at his home on North Main street here this morning at 5:30 o'clock. His death was due to kidney trouble and a complication of diseases, and followed a very brief illness.

Besides his wife he is survived by two sons and two daughters, Miss Helen BEAN, teacher in the Fairfield High School, Mrs. Hale C. GREENLEAF of Centerville, Dr. James BEAN of Minneapolis, and Edgar R. BEAN of Oklahoma City.

Dr. BEAN has long been an active member in the Presbyterian church and had been active in matters of moral value to the community. He has been a very faithful teacher in the College Addition Sunday School.

Funeral arrangements have not as yet been made, pending the arrival of the children.

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"The Fairfield Daily Journal"
Wednesday, January 8, 1919
Page 4, Column 4

HOUR NOT YET SET FOR FUNERAL OF DR. J. V. BEAN

The time of the funeral of Dr. J. V. BEAN has not as yet been set. The family is endeavoring to locate Private Edgar R. BEAN, who is on a troop train coming from Camp Merritt, New Jersey to Camp Pike, Arkansas, before making the final arrangements.

Tuesday morning, at five o'clock, Dr. BEAN, City Health officer and one of the oldest and most respected physicians of the county and city, answered the final summons, thus terminating a professional career of over a half century.

He had been working very hard of late, both in the active practice of his profession and in the capacity of his public office, trying to serve the community in lessening the inroads of the epidemic of influenza. So he fulfilled his frequent desire and died "in the harness."

To many, the passing of this good and just man and skilled physician, will bring a great sorrow.

Dr. BEAN was born in Pennsylvania near the Ohio line, December 9, 1843. He was educated in the public schools of Ohio, and was graduated from Conneaut Academy, at Conneaut, Ohio. He took his degree in Doctor of Medicine, March 1, 1868, at the Bellevue Hospital Medical college, at that time rated as the leading medical college in the United States and now connected with the University of New York. His father was a surgeon in the Union army, and died in the service at Memphis, Tenn., in 1863. The son remained at home to care for the mother and family, though himself earnestly desiring to enter the service. However at the conclusion of his medical course, he followed the footsteps of his father and joined the regular army as a surgeon where he saw active service, being stationed at Fort Stevenson and other points in Dakota territory.

After he left the army he returned for a while to his former home at Conneaut, Ohio, then came to Iowa and located for a while at Moulton. Thence he removed to Burlington where he engaged in the practice of his profession for several years. Afterward he lived in Kansas for three years, returning to Iowa in 1887 and choosing Fairfield as ideal place to perform the ministry of his healing art and rear his family. Her he has continued in active practice for thirty-two years, until last Friday when his age and infirmity prevented him answering professional calls.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth WILSON BEAN, to whom he was married on January 22, 1880, the ceremony being performed here in Fairfield, by Rev. Carson Reed, at that time pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Their children are: two daughters, Mrs. Mary GREENLEAF, of Colfax, Iowa, Miss Helen BEAN, a teacher in the Fairfield high school, and two sons Rev. James W. BEAN, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Edgar R. BEAN, now in the army service at Camp Merritt, but in civil life engaged in journalism. He is also survived by a sister, Miss Mary BEAN until lately a teacher in the school at Pleasant Plain.

Dr. BEAN was a member of the American Medical Association, the Iowa State Medical Association, the Des Moines Valley Medical Association and the Jefferson County Association. He had also served in an official capacity in some of the Societies of his profession.

Dr. BEAN was a skilled physician, and his services were in demand in critical cases far and near. He loved his profession, and by constant reading and study kept abreast of medical science. For a long term of years he lectured most acceptably to the students of Parsons college in their junior and senior years, on subjects of Sanitary Science and Hygiene.

In character he was a man of the sternest integrity, true to the core in every respect, but of the tenderest heart, and always open to the calls of humanity.

Many believe that in his position as health officer he was instrumental in warding off the influenza epidemic from which many communities have suffered much more heavily than Fairfield. And all of us may owe our lives to his efforts, though these same efforts may have shortened his own.

He was an earnest believer in the Christian religion. He knew that his Redeemer liveth. He realized in his life and death the words of the poet Bryant: "He so lived that when his summons came to join that innumerable throng that moves to that mysterious realm where each doth take his chamber in the silent halls of Death, he was sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, and lay down likeone (sic) who wraps the draperies of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams." C. D. L.

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"The Fairfield Daily Journal"
Thursday, January 9, 1919
Page 2, Column 1

DR. J. V. BEAN FUNERAL SATURDAY MORNING

The funeral services for Dr. J. V. BEAN will be held Saturday morning at ten o'clock from the home on North Main street, in charge of Rev. H. A. Mosser. Interment will be in Evergreen cemetery.

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Friday, January 10, 1919
Front Page, Columns 3 and 4

PROMINENT PHYSICIAN SUMMONED BY DEATH
DR. J. V. BEAN DIED TUESDAY FOLLOWING A BRIEF ILLNESS.

After a professional career of more than half a century, Dr. John V. BEAN, well known and beloved surgeon and physician of Fairfield, passed away Tuesday following a very brief illness. Death came closely upon weeks of unusual activities during the influenza epidemic.

Dr. John Victor BEAN, first son and child of Asa Ames BEAN, M. D., and Mary POWELL BEAN, was born at Spring (now Springboro), Pennsylvania, December 9, 1843. His parents removed to Conneaut, Ohio, when he was eight years old and this was the home of his boyhood and youth, as well as early manhood. He was educated at the academy at this place. He read medicine with A. K. Fifield, M. D., and took a full medical course at Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New York, and graduated March 1, 1868. He pursued postgraduate studies for a short time at Bellevue hospital.

He received an appointment as acting assistant surgeon, United States army, in May of that year and was ordered to the department of Dakota where he served at Fort Stevenson for about a year and four months. He accompanied an expedition to Fort Buford and served also for short periods at Forts Sully and Randall.

He practiced his profession at Moulton, Iowa, for three years, beginning in 1870, and at Burlington, Iowa, from 1873 to 1884. After three years at Howard, Kan., he located at Fairfield, where he has since resided and practiced.

Dr. BEAN had thus at his death spent over thirty-two years in serving the health of this city and its surrounding country and had enjoyed the unusual privilege of over fifty-one years of active professional services. He had been blessed with good health up to the very last and this in spite of long years of hard work. This winter he had responded to an unusually large number of calls upon his energy by reason of his two-fold service at physician and health officer during the epidemic of influenza. All the duties in this connection he had executed with the through-going efficiency which was notably craracteristic (sic) of him. He had evidently used up all his reserve strength in this service and last Friday noon spoke of being very tired. All day Saturday, however, he responded to requests and calls at his home office. Sunday was a day of suffering, and that night he became unconscious. From this he did not rally and passed quietly away the morning of Tuesday, January 7, at 5 o'clock.

Thus closed the career of a man who though always of humble means belonged to the aristocracy of character. He had the highest ideals personally and for society, was thorough and genuine in all his work. He regarded his medical knowledge and professional skill as a trust to be used for mankind. Though he required a high standard for others he was usually rigid with himself.

Of New England Puritan, Scotch (sic - Scottish) and Welsh ancestry, he united with the Presbyterian church in young manhood and was not only a member of that organization practically of his life, but was thoroughly conversant with its theology and history. He taught the young men's Bible class in the First Presbyterian church of Burlington and was for several years a teacher in the Sunday school in this city. Of late he was greatly interested in the college addition mission.

Dr. BEAN was married January 22, 1880, to Elizabeth WILSON of Ottumwa by her brother-in-law, Rev. Carson REED, who was at that time pastor of the Presbyterian church here, the ceremony occurring at his home. Their children are: Rev. James Wilson BEAN, pastor of the Dayton Avenue church, St. Paul, Minnesota; Helen A. BEAN, teacher of English in the high school; Mary, wife of Hale C. GREENLEAF of Colfax, Ia., and Edgar R., of the Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City, but at present in the army. In addition to these he is also survived by a sister, Mary E., who has long made her home here.

Dr. BEAN was a member of the American Medical association, Iowa State Medical Society, the Des Moines Valley association, Eastern District Medical association and the Jefferson County Society. For about fifteen years he was connected with the faculty of Parsons college, giving courses in sanitation and hygiene.

Final arrangements for the funeral await definite word from his second son, Edgar, at present en route from Camp Merritt, N. J., to Camp Pike, Ark., but will probably take place at the home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock with interment in Evergreen cemetery.

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"The Fairfield Tribune"
Friday, January 10, 1919
Page FOUR, Column 4

DR. BEAN FUNERAL TO BE HELD SATURDAY

Final arrangements have been made for the funeral of Dr. J. V. BEAN which will be held from the family home, 202 North Main street, Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.

The son, Edgar BEAN, on whose arrival arrangements for the funeral have been pending, will reach the city Friday in time to be in attendance at the burial of his father.

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Note: Buried in Lot 2nd.240 with wife Elizabeth who died in 1933.