Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Beeman, Dean C. 1880 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory (1913)

DEAN C. BEEMAN

    The desire to find a location entirely satisfactory caused Mr. Beeman to
travel extensively throughout the United States. Reared in the Mississippi
valley, he had been familiar with that region from his earliest memories and his
travels therefore took him into other directions. Twice he went to the
northwest, but what he desired was not there. Then he began to investigate
California and he did not cease his journeys until he had traversed the entire
length of the Pacific coast at a point of contact with our own country. A
careful estimate of the extent of his journeyings in search of a location gives
the mileage in one year as seventeen thousand, but he does not regret the time
and money spent in these expeditions, for they gave him a broad acquaintance
with the United States and also convinced him that Yolo county is without a
superior in its possibilities for the earning of a livelihood out of the soil.

    The first ten years in the life of Dean C. Beeman were passed at Hicksville,
Defiance county, Ohio, where he was born in 1880, and where he attended the
primary schools. During 1890 he accompanied the family to Chicago, and there he
was a pupil in the grammar schools. In 1895 he secured employment as clerk on
the board of trade and remained there during the next two years, a period famous
in history on account of the memorable corner in wheat by Joseph Leiter. Upon
leaving his clerkship there he became yard clerk for the Chicago, Indianapolis &
Louisville Railroad in Chicago. Two years later he resigned that position and
became a fireman, out from Chicago on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
Four years afterward he gave up that work. Next he ran an engine for the
Illinois traction system electric railroad from Peoria to Springfield, Ill., a
line then, as now, the largest electric system in the United States.

    Upon leaving the employ of the traction company in 1909, Mr. Beeman began
his investigations in search of land where he might engage in ranching. During
March of 1910 he came to Yolo county and bought forty acres near Woodland. When
he came here he was accompanied by his wife, whom he had married in 1905, and
who was Miss Daisy L. Roberts, a native of Morton, Ill. Their comfortable
country home is brightened by the presence of two sons, Donald and Howard. The
land is largely in alfalfa, and the product is utilized in the dairy of twelve
cows. The care exercised by the proprietor in the purchase of milch cows, and in
their care and feed enables him to secure the very greatest possible results
from his dairy, and he has no reason to regret his decision to combine the
raising of alfalfa with the management of a dairy. In addition to the cattle he
keeps a small number of hogs on the ranch. Horticulture forms a profitable
adjunct to other farm duties. There are on the farm ninety-five prune trees and
two hundred and twenty-five almond trees, and the owner is decidedly proud of
the record made by the almond trees in 1911, for his crop that year brought him
the neat sum of $500, an excellent record for two hundred and twenty-five young
trees. Although not an early settler of Yolo county, Mr. Beeman vies with older
men in his devotion to the county, in his belief in its possibilities and in his
determination to secure the greatest practicable results from the cultivation of
its soil.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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