Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 587
FREDERICK C. BEAN

Frederick C. BEAN, a farmer located on section 26, of Jackson Township, came to Harrison County in April 1883. He first located on the farm he now occupies, consisting of a one hundred and thirty acre tract, with twenty acres under the plow, and a small house upon it. He moved into this house merely as a place of shelter from the elements, and commenced improving his place. He built a one story and a half house, 24x32 feet, with a wing sixteen feet square, and a thirty-two foot addition; also a barn and a carriage house. He set out an orchard of six hundred apple trees and ninety trees of smaller fruit. From time to time, as he has been prospered, he has added to his original land until he now possesses four hundred and forty acres of rich, Harrison County soil, one hundred and twenty-five acres of which are under the plow, the balance is in meadow and pasture land.

Our subject was born in Lebanon, N. H., July 1, 1858. He is the son of John W., and Frances S. BEAN, natives of Vermont and New Hampshire respectively, who had no other children besides our subject.

John W. BEAN, father of our subject, enlisted in 1861, as a private in the volunteer service, to put down the Civil War, and was promoted from the ranks to Second Lieutenant, then to First Lieutenant, and from that to Captain of his Company. He first enlisted in the Fifth New Hampshire volunteers. After the close of the War he went to Washington and worked in the Treasury Department for nine months, when he received a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Regular Army, and was retired, holding the rank of Captain, in September 1890.

Our subject remained with his parents 'midst the hills and forests of the old Granite State, until he was nine years of age, and then went to Washington after his father received his appointment in the Treasury Department, and when he received his commission for the regular army he and his mother went back to New Hampshire and remained two years, and then both went to Indianola, Tex., and remained one year and then spent a year in New Mexico and returned to New Hampshire. Our subject attended the High School one year at Bristol and then went to Governeur's Island, N.Y., and attended a preparatory school, and in 1874 entered Anandale College, where he spent four years, then went to Germantown, N.Y., and was engaged in the mercantile business at Clermont, N.Y., two years and worked on a farm near Germanstown for three years, and from there came to Harrison County, Iowa.

Mr. BEAN was united in marriage in July, 1878, to Esther V. DICK, the daughter of William H. and Eleanor DICK, whose children were; Amos W.K., Alletta and Esther. Our subject and his wife are the parents of three children -- Frederick V., born May 11, 1879; Frank W., February 16, 1885; and Francis F., September 6, 1886. Mr. and Mrs. BEAN are acceptable members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he belongs to Lodge No. 283, I.O.O.F. at Little Sioux.

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