Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-23
Gel E1RATE EVENT INFORMAL.
" At THEIR HOME IN THIS
CITY SUNDAY.
10Th ARE PIONEERS
OF SOUTHERN GRUMPY
Town Of 1eaman Named For MIR. eea'
man, Who Plated the Town in 1875
- Daughter Of Man Who Married
Couple Guest at Golden Wedding
Reaman Friends Send Flowers.

Fifty years of married life were
celebrated Sunday by Mr.. and Mrs. H.
H. Beaman at their home, 402 West
Main street. The happy anniversary
mas observed Informally owing to the
poor health of Mrs. Beaman. the only
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Beaman being
Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Brooks, the for
mer a brother of Mrs. Beanan, and
Mrs. Jennie Wilson. Mrs. Beaman re-
ceived her guests auired in costume
of her wedding day, including hoop
skirt. Dinner was enjoyed al noon.
Gracing the table was a beautiful!
bouquet of fifty narcissus blossoms
sent by fifty friends Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Beaman at their old home at Beaman'
Grundy county, where Mr.. and Mrs.
Beaman lived for so many years. Mr..
Beaman founded the town of Beaman,
plating the townsite from his farm.
Married in This County.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bea man We're married
in this county, at Vienna Center, FEB.
%. 1854, John Hunsdon, one of tho
earlier justices of the peace of this
county. officiating. Mr.. Hunsdon was
the father Of Mrs. Jennie Wilson, OF
this city, and the late Mrs. O. B.
Chaplin, Of Union.
Wedding Tour in Spring Wagon.
The wedding tour" of the young
people, Mr.. Beanan chen not quite u
years old, and his bride two months
past 10, extended over period of three
days and was made in spring wagon.
The first stop was in MarshalltoWn-
where the bride and groom, in company
with ". W. Brooks and Miss Phoebe
Vincent. were guests at a Washington
ball, held in the then-new Arson
House. which stood about opposite
where the Y. NJ. C. a. building is now
The second stop on the honeymoon
journay was at Albion, and on the third
/, day after the wedding Mr.. and Mrs
Beaman reached their home on the
Grundy county farm
Plats Town in 1878.
Mr. and Mrs. Beaulan We're engaged
in farming from the time of their mar
rage until June, 1875, when Mr.. Bea-
man plated the land into the town
that now bears his name. The new
town, it was generally conceded. had a.
great future. A railroad was coming.
and Beauan was TO be the eastern"
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man put their time and money into the
enterprise.
Farmers Union Is Built.
And the railroad was built, from Lis
comb to Beaman, distance of twelve
miles, with Liscosnb as the hea dquar-
tiers. The official name of the road
was the Farmers Union, but more pop
Clariy it wes termed Trips Eastwood
railroad. The rails, sawed out of bass
wood trees, were made by John Trip
at his sawmiu, one mile west of Lis
comb. The rails were laid to a mar
row gauge, and steam trains were OPP
Grated over the line for period Of six
months. If j. B. Grinneu had lived the
Eastwood rails would have been sup
planted by steel, it is said, but this
dream was never realized The little
locomotives and rolling stock passed
into the hands Of the narrow gauge
road that later ran from Arnes to Des
Moines. Mr.. Trip, who promoted the
road, later helped build the B., c. r. &
y. thru Tana county.
Come Here in 1898.
After the establishment Of the town
OF Beau1an Mr.. Bean.an was engaged in
the real estate and collection business
in Beaman until 1898, when Mr.. and
Mrs. Beaman came TO this city, where
they have since resided
Both Natives Of Illinois.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beaman are both ma
tiveS Of Illinois. Henry II. Beaman
was born On farm in Stephenson
county, near Freepor-, May 10, 1S43 He
came with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
s. S. Beaman, 10 Grundy county, in
1850 Mrs. Beaman. who was Sarah
Ellen Brooks prior to her MARRIAGE
was daunghter Of Mr. ind Mrs. Har-
rison Brooks, who settled just across
the Marshall county line in Grundy
county in 1854. Mrs. Beaman was
born in Dewitt county, Illinois, near
Farmer City, Dec %, 1914.
Mr.. and Mrs Beaman had one
daughter, Cora Adeiia, who was born
Nov. IS, 1865, and died Dec. 9, 1881.