Wayne County Biographies



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Benjamin Beeson

Benjamin Beeson, one of the successful farmers and mechanics of his day, came from North Carolina to Wayne County, Ind., in 1812, on horse-back, on a tour of exploration. He selected one-fourth of section 24, for which he paid the Government $2 an acre. He then returned to North Carolina but in 1814 with his wife and two children moved to Indiana Territory and built a log cabin in the unbroken wilderness preparatory to commencing the battle of pioneer life for which he proved to be competent. He worked at the blacksmith and wagon-maker's trades in bad weather and by patient industry cleared his land and made for himself one of the finest farms in Washington Township where he reared a large family and upon which he lived till his death in 1852. Politically he was a Jackson Democrat. Honesty, integrity and a desire to do good were his religion.

Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2