Beauchamp, Caswell

BEAUCHAMP

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Date: 6/26/2021 at 16:07:10

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.812

CASWELL BEAUCHAMP
Prominent among the business men of Warren County is Caswell Beau­champ, who has been engaged in general merchandising at Carlisle since 1888, and has been closely identified with the upbuilding and development of the city. He is a worthy representative of an old and honored family of this county. A native of Indiana, he was born in Huntington County, July 21, 1856, and is a son of John and Levina (Dille) Beauchamp, the father a native of Indiana, and the mother of Ohio; the former born in 1821 and the latter in 1828. In early life the father followed farming in the Hoosier state and on coming to Iowa in 1865 located in Richland Township, Warren County, where he continued to engage in agricultural pursuits for a number of years, but retired from active labor a quarter of a century ago. In his family are three sons: Isaac, William H. and Caswell, and two daughters: Mary, the wife of B. F. Huckleberry, a farmer of Allen Township; and Anna, wife of Rev. Bertch, is minister of the United Brethren Church, and now located in Kansas.
Caswell Beauchamp was only eleven years of age when he accompanied his parents on their removal to this state and in Warren County he was reared and educated, attending the common schools. On starting out in life for him­self he become interested in merchandising and purchased an interest in a store already established. Two years later he bought out his partner and was alone for a number of years, but has since formed another partnership which still continues. They carry a large and well selected stock of dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes and groceries, and by fair and honorable dealing he has built up an excellent trade. Besides his business in Carlisle, Mr. Beau­champ established and conducted a grocery in Des Moines for some years, and he has also been extensively engaged in the real-estate business, erecting several residences and business houses in Carlisle, some of which he still owns.
Here Mr. Beauchamp was married in the spring of 1886 to Miss Lulu Roberts, who was born, reared and educated in Carlisle and is a daughter of W. V. Roberts, one of the early settlers of Richland Township. They have four children living: May, now the wife of Oren Carey of Ackworth; Ward, Minnie and John C. One son, Glenn, died August 24, 1906.
Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he is also connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Carlisle. Since attaining his majority he has affiliated with the Republican party and he has been called upon to serve as township trustee for eight years. He is public-spirited, giving his cooperation to every movement which tends to promote the moral, intellectual and material welfare of the community. He possesses the enterprising spirit of the west, which has been the dominant factor in producing the wonderful development of this section of the country.