C.C. BEAN
Arizona Republican Newspaper
February 3, 1904

The editor of the Prescott Journal-Miner received a telegram 
Monday afternoon from Mary M. Bean in New York containing the 
following brief announcement.

"Curtis Coe Bean died at his home here this morning in the 
77th year of his age. " 

Colonel C.C. Bean, as the subject of the above was well 
known in Arizona and was a historical character.  He came 
to Prescott during the early sixties and resided with his 
family here until the late eighties.  He was a veritable 
pioneer among the pioneers of Arizona.  He was first engaged 
in contracting business with the army and was engaged like all 
the early settlers in many a brush with the Indians.

He was the owner of the Copper Basin Mining properties and 
sold them to Phelps, Dodge and Company and during the more 
recent years has been engaged in mining in the southern part 
of this territory.  He was a man of wonderful vitality and 
energy, optimistic to the greatest degree and a man beloved 
by all who knew him.

In politics he was a Republican and served one term as 
delegate to Congress form this territory.

He was not only a good citizen but it was in his home where 
his character showed up to the greatest advantage, his 
devotion to his "wife and babies" as he always referred 
to them, being proverbial.  A biographical sketch of the 
deceased would fill a volume.  He leaves a wife and four 
daughters.