Biography of
Jerome Foster Bean
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JEROME
FOSTER BEAN. During the past
decade many of the farmers of Johnson county have turned their attention to
specializing along certain lines, and have met with unqualified success in
fields that heretofore have been invaded only as side issues, principal among
these being the raising of hogs. This industry has been pushed forward rapidly
in late years, and among those who have found that this can be made a
remunerative occupation are Jerome Foster Bean and James Monroe Bean, of Grantsburg township, owners of some
fine farming property, and enterprising agriculturists and stock-raisers who
have made a study of their chosen vocation and follow it along scientific lines.
They are sons of James and Mary (Glass) Bean, and
grandsons of Henry Bean, a native of Tennessee, who brought his family to
Illinois in 1833 and spent the rest of his life in Gallatin county.
James Bean
was born in 1833 while the family was migrating from Tennessee to Illinois, and
he was reared on the pioneer farm in Gallatin county. At the outbreak of the
Civil war he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer
Infantry, with which he served three years and three months, and on his return
again took up farming.
Mr. Bean
was the type of citizen who started in life without a dollar and rose to a place
of prominence among his fellows. Overcoming all discouragements and hardships,
hewing straight to the line of honesty and integrity, believing in a fair and
honorable method of dealing in all things, he accumulated more than 600 acres of
land, and when he retired, in 1907, was one of the most highly esteemed men of
his community. At that time he removed from Gallatin to Johnson county, but did
not live long to enjoy the fruits of his years of toil, as his death occurred
April 20th of that same year.
Mr. Bean
was a total abstainer as to liquor and tobacco, was never heard to utter an
oath, and was very religious and serious minded. His
word was as good as a bond,
and on many occasions he was forced to deprive himself of all but the
necessities of life on account of having to settle for a friend’s notes,
which his kindness of heart had caused him to endorse. A stalwart, sturdy
pioneer, in his death Southern Illinois lost a man whose place will be hard
to fill and one whose career is worthy of emulation by the youth of any
land. Nine children were born to
Mr. Bean
and wife, namely:
James Monroe;
Mrs. Alice Nazarene Nelson; Jerome Foster; Mrs. Margaret Josephine Hemphill;
Mrs. Faustine Ellen Willis; Logan Grant,
who died at the
age of nineteen years;
Sherman Henry; Mary Rosabel,
who died at the
age of four years; and
Mrs. Susan Catherine Hatfield.
The mother of
these children, who was a daughter of
James Glass,
of Pope county,
died in 1897, at the age of fifty-five years.
James Monroe Bean,
more familiarly known as Monroe, was born August 14, 1855, in Gallatin county,
Illinois, and there was educated in the public schools. Until the removal to
Johnson county in 1907, he and his brother
Jerome F.
were engaged in
conducting their father‘s property, Monroe having charge of 300 acres
located in the “bottoms.” On October 14, 1906, Monroe Bean purchased eighty
acres in Grantsburg township, where he has since been engaged in
agricultural pursuits, and he now has two head of cattle, five horses and
eighty Poland China hogs. He has been very successful in his operations, and
is looked upon as one of his community‘s substantial men.
On November 4, 1878,
Mr. Bean
was married to
Mrs. Leah Amanda (Nelson) Siddels,
daughter of
Elijah
and
Elsie Nelson,
and they have had
a family of eight children, namely:
James Franklin, Jerome
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Marshall, Minnie Belle, James
Monroe, Jr., Ridgeway, Logan, Byron Nelson
and
Clyde Lester.
The family is connected with the Methodist church and is well and favorably
known in Grantsburg township.
Jerome Foster Bean
was born on
the old homestead farm in Gallatin county, April 10, 1860. He received a
common-school education in the schools located near the home place, which
was situated about fourteen miles from old Shawneetown, and as a youth was
reared to agricultural pursuits. On attaining manhood,
Mr. Bean
was given
charge of 300 acres of his father’s land, known as the “ridge” farm, and
this he operated until his father sold out and came to Johnson county. Since
coming to Grantsburg
Mr. Bean
has accumulated 240 acres of excellent highly
productive land, and here he has carried on farming and stock-raising. He is
the owner of eight horses, two jacks and one jennet, five head of cattle and
ninety hogs. In the latter he specializes in the Jersey-Duroc breed, and in
November, 1911, had the finest bunch of the season in Johnson county, his
shipment bringing $560. Like his brother, he has been successful in his
chosen vocation, and he has always been in favor of using progressive and
up-to-date methods in his work.
In 1889
Mr. Bean
was married to
Miss Ethel Yost,
of Gallatin
county, Illinois, daughter of
Fletcher Yost,
and she died
in 1903, having been the mother of seven children;
Mary Jewell, Susan Catherine, Ruth Yost, James Lewis, Jerome David,
and two who died
in infancy. In 1905,
Mr. Bean
was married to
Mrs. Luella (Nash) Strode,
a widow, of St. Louis, Missouri, and daughter of
Samuel Nash,
and two children
have been born to this union,
Samuel Burdette
and one who died in infancy.
Mr. Bean
is a member of Cumberland Presbyterian church, and his fraternal connection is
with the Masonic Lodge of Ridgeway.
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