BEEBE, James P.

BEEBE, GURNSEY

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 6/2/2007 at 22:22:33

James P. Beebe, the son of James H Beebe, was born in Sabula, Iowa, and was eight years of age when he came with his father to Stacyville township, where he made his home until he bought his present place, in Union township, section 34. He has followed threshing every year for the last fourteen years, which he has made a success.

He was married in October, 1871, to Sarah Gurnsey, born in Tioga Co., Penn., Aug. 14, 1848, and came to Stacyville with her mother in December, 1858. Mr. and Mrs. James P. Beebe have three children—Amy, born Aug. 8, 1873; Jessie, Dec. 11, 1875; Ray, July 14, 1878. Mr. Beebe and family are all members of the Congregational Church. He makes the raising of Poland-China hogs and Cotswold sheep a specialty. He keeps a number of cows and runs a dairy, selling his cream to the Penneyville Creamery. Mr. Beebe bought the first two-horse corn planter ever owned in Mitchell county, which was made specially for planting corn on sod.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 518.