The Portland daily press., 1899-09-01
Two Hundred descendants Of John
Bean Present.
j. H. Drummond Elected
President.
Some of Those Present and
Proceedings of Meeting.

Tho John Bean association held
tn annual reunion In Portland
lay. There we're members of the
80 bssa family in attendance from all parts
nj the country and the reunion was the
- in point of numbers that has ever
~ acid. at two O'Clock in the after
chen Hon. Josiah II. Drummond,
snt of the association, called the
to order there were fully two
I'd present including many women
!. ldren. In the evening the attend
.sas even larger than in the after
-. noon.
shchn Bean, the defendants of whom
&s -e yesterday In reunion, was of
Sh descent. He was Presby terrain
Undoubtedly was of those or
one of those who left Scotland in
% enjoy his religious belief without
tion John Bean had settled at
Gtee, N. H.. as early as 1866 the exact
bit obtianabls. In 1871 he was
NRf committee chosen to run the lines
an Exeter and adjoining towns
was married before he came to this
try, but the name of bis wife and
i. ~ ned; the tradition is land other
- facts support it), that she died on the
Sage and that. after his arrival here.
ried Scotoh-Irish girl, who came
the same vessel with him. The
his second marriage is not known
DGSx was in 1860, or ABOUT that date;
~ nor is her full name known, but her
given name was Margaret
aSs,he late of her death Is unknown, but
y eded that of her husband. He died
He had a son and a daughter by
his first marriage, born in England, and
by mis- second wife, born in Exeter, john
Dan;.l, Samuel, John, Margaret, James,
Jeremy and Catherine.
~ first John was born In 1861 and
died IN 1866
m The frat part of the meeting yesterday
'we afternoon was devoted to social inter
Ease. The customary salutation was
IN GU a Bean and II SO where do you
from an d who were your ancestors -
,hange of genealogical Information
Nag the Bean family continued
Ich iollity and good nature for
ne and descendants Of the original
.om far away New York took by
I'D member of the same tribe
WIS., SAad never before met hailing
fron% ern part of Maine or from
New &:s.-
Mr. grummond in calling the assembly
tu ord'r introduced the Rev. II. H.
Bishop who made a brief prayer. MIR.
Drum 1ond then went on to relate some
of the valuable information regarding the
Bean family which he has gathered by
dint Of hard work during the last year.
He j. 81 gly referred to the fact that all
gene Eists are met with statement
when ivy begin their laoors that "there
were three brothers who came over in
the - ne ship and one settled here an.
otheFthere and third somewhere else. -
MIR. Drummond said that 1t had been
haroie o trace the two brothers of Johr
Bealr If he had two brothers when he
LAM in this country. 1t was known
that John Bean settled in Exeter and
there was Louis Bean in New York and
still another Bean who spelled his name
"Baln" who settled In Virginia but
whether these were brothers or merely
distant relatives 1t was impossible to as
certain. They had never written one an
other as far as can be ascertained though
they might have been related. Mr..
Drummond continued to explain the
method he had pursued in tracing the
genealogy of the family. 1t had required
the writing of hundreds of letters some
of which were answered aud some were
not. The genealogy on to the fourth
generation is pretty we'll filled and about
as complete as 1t will ever be. Mr.
Drum nond said he did not think 1t ad
visable to try and print at this time al
Of the other generation but thought i
would be best to take one line and com
plete THAT and 30 go through the famil!
until .he genealogy lie complete.
IA Ebenezer Bean of Blue Hill wa
int iced by Mr.. Drummond and deliy
ere brief address. He asked why such
deM interest is taken in these famil,
giW ngs 1t is because they are con
ne M with the home, parentage ant
sd ton of early life that make then
sresting to everyone. This feeling
81 los from the fountain deep in tn
Km-n constitution. Business interests
may separate those rocked In the sam
FAM cradle the width of the continen
but Tough separated they do not pas
from the thought and affectionate regard
he Tribes of Israel and the clans Of SCOT
ad we're accustomed to hold famil!
7ions and this custom has been fol
- ged in American. The descendants @
- Bean who came from Scotland t
5eer in 1860 have for several years ha
ON Of meeting as a family annual
tl spending day or so socially