Charles L. Beadle

BEADLE, STREETER, STREEPER

Posted By: Peter Gausmann (email)
Date: 1/3/2010 at 06:03:07

CHARLES L. BEADLE

Charles L. Beadle is now a retired farmer living in Forest City. He was born in Hancock county on the 16th of May, 1870, and has been a lifelong resident of Iowa. His parents, George W. and Sarah (Streeter) Beadle, were pioneers of this section and are mentioned at length on another page of this work.

The son was educated in the public schools and in the Decorah (la.) Normal School, after which he taught for one term, but on the expiration of that period resumed farming, to which pursuit he had been reared, early becoming familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. His father's training well qualified him for later responsibilities and he took up farming on his own account in Ellington township, Hancock county, where he purchased land on which he resided for twenty-one years. In the spring of 1916 he removed to Forest City, where he is now living retired, enjoying the fruits of his former intelligently directed effort. He still owns a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, from which he derives a substantial income, and the success of his former years enables him to have all of life's comforts and many of its luxuries.

In September, 1893, Mr. Beadle was united in marriage to Miss Mary Streeper, of Britt, Iowa, and they have become the parents of four children: Irene L., a teacher in the schools of Hancock county; Lois M., a teacher in the Winnebago county schools; Sarah C., who is attending Waldorf College at Forest City; and George M., a pupil in the graded schools.

In his political views Mr. Beadle is a republican and has ever been a close student of the political questions and issues of the day but has never been an office seeker. He represents one of the old pioneer families of the county and has himself been a resident of this section for forty-seven years. He has a wide acquaintance and those who know him speak of him in terms of warm regard.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. p. 281.