BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Page 618.

WASHINGTON BEAM

Washington Beam, of Richland township, who was born April 26, 1823, on the
farm where he now lives, is one of the most industrious farmers of the
county. He has a good farm of seventy-eight acres, which is well improved,
and to the cultivation of his land and the duties of good citizenship he
has devoted his life, never having traveled more than sixty miles from the
land which was his birth place and the scene of his labors. His father,
Benjamin Beam, a native of New Jersey, came to Ohio with his parents when
quite young. He was a soldier of the war of 1812. He married Margaret
Taylor, who became the mother of Washington Beam. In 1851 Mr. Beam was
married to Amanda, daughter of John Barker, and by this union he had nine
children, of whom six are living: Julia A., Margaret, Mary O., John H.,
Joseph and Minnie. Mrs. Beam's father was a son of John and Rachel (Jordon)
Barker, and is of German descent. Her mother, Judith A., was a daughter of
Joshua and Mary (Bell) Shurley, the former of whom was a son of Thomas
Shurley, a native of Virginia. Judith A. Barker, who was reared in Kentucky,
is still living, in her eighty-seventh year.