Joseph Beam

BEAM, WILER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/14/2004 at 23:51:36

Joseph Beam, Penn twp.; farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Earlham; owns 80 acres of land; born in Berks county, Pa., in 1810; came to Ohio and lived thirty-five years and then to Madison county in 1876; he married in 1833 to Miss C. Wiler, of Pennsylvania; has three children living: Lydia L., Mary and Lavina; member of the German Reform Church; has made all his own improvements.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 635