BEEBE, James H.

BEEBE, STODDARD

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 6/2/2007 at 22:20:03

James H. Beebe came to Iowa in 1844, when it was yet a territory, and settled in what is now Jackson county, living there eight years. He was born in Connecticut, Aug. 8, 1813. He left his native State, coming to Bingen, Illinois, in 1839, and from there to Iowa in 1844.

After remaining in Iowa eight years he went back to Illinois, stopping there three years, but in June, 1855, returned to what is now Union township, Mitchell Co., Iowa, where he bought a claim, put up a house, and in November of the same year moved his family upon the farm. He went to Dickinson Co., Iowa, where he remained for a time, but in 1876 he returned to Union township, Mitchell Co., where he has ever since lived. He held the office of county commissioner two terms. He was married in 1841 to Lucy A. Stoddard, who was a native of Connecticut, born in 1822. By this union there were eleven children, ten of whom are still living, there being three pair of twins. James H. Beebe is now living with his third son, James P. Beebe, who owns 120 acres of good land on section 34, in Union township.

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