H. N. Beeson

    H. N. Beeson is a native of Stark County, Ohio, where he was born December 11, 1836, and is one of nine children, six yet living, born to William and Hannah (Hanby) Beeson. The father's occupation was that of scythe and sickle maker, but in later years he followed farming. In 1842 he removed from Ohio to Indiana, locating on a farm one and a half miles from Columbia City, then a small settlement of but six families. Here his death occurred in 1843, after which the family removed to the village, where they all yet reside, with one exception. The oldest son, Benjamin took up blacksmithing, which he has since followed.

    H. N. attended school until he was thirteen, when he learned his brother's trade, at which he worked for twenty-nine years in Columbia City. In 1878 he embarked in the drug business, to which he has adhered to the present time, with some changes. From 1879 to 1881, the business was carried on by the firm of Beeson & Co., when the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Beeson retaining sole proprietorship. His drug house is first class in every respect, making a fins success of the undertaking from the start.

    Mr. Beeson is a Democrat and a member of the Masonic Order, having ascended in that fraternity to the Royal Arch Degree. He was married, February 9, 1860, to Miss Nancy Bodley, daughter of Capt. James Bodley, and lost his wife by death seven years later. In 1869, he married his present wife, and a family of two children -Charles H. and Mary  -is the result of this union.

Source: Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana, Historical and Biographical. Weston A. Goodspeed, Charles Blanchard, 1882. Page 240.