Biography of Philip D. Beall, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

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Transcribed from:  The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. 
III, page 66, 1923.

BEALL, PHILIP D., former assistant United States district attorney, has had an exceptionally 
successful career as a lawyer since his admission to the Florida bar.  His home is at Pensacola, 
where he has lived since early boyhood.

Mr. BEALL was born at San Antonio, Texas, February 17, 1891, son of WILBUR N. and ANNIE T. 
(LARKIN) BEALL.  His grandparents were JAMES ADDISON and SARAH M. (HAMMOND) BEALL, natives, 
respectively, of Virginia and Maryland and early settlers in Missouri.  The maternal grandparents 
were J. R. and MARY (CHAMBERS) LARKIN, Missouri people.  The father of MARY CHAMBERS was JAMES 
R. CHAMBERS, who came from Ireland.

WILBUR N. BEALL was born in Missouri, as was his wife.  He became a lawyer and for a number 
of years was a newspaper editor.  He was at one time connected with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 
also with a paper in San Antonio, Texas, and for some years practiced law and served as United 
States commissioner at Socorro, New Mexico.

PHILIP D. BEALL was a small child when his father died, and was about six years of age when he 
came to Pensacola with his mother, who is still living here.  He attended public and private 
schools in this city, spent four years in the Christian Brothers College at St. Louis, and for 
three and one-half years was a student in the Spring Hill College at Mobile, Alabama.  After 
completing his education Mr. BEALL became a clerk in the Peoples Bank, now the Citizens Bank 
of Pensacola, and a short time later became secretary to the judge of the Federal Court of this 
district.  While acting as secretary, from February, 1908 to 1912, he studied law, was admitted 
to the bar in 1911 and in 1912 began active practice.  In a short time he was called to the 
duties of assistant United States district attorney.  The work of this young but able and well 
qualified lawyer in the district attorney's office was from 1912 to 1917.  Owing to a vacancy 
in the office caused by the retirement of the district attorney, he performed all the duties 
of the office for about three months.  Since this official service he has given his time to 
his extensive general practice at Pensacola.  He is a member of the County, State and American 
Bar associations, is a fourth degree Knight of Columbus, and Elk and a member of the Catholic 
Church.

In August, 1914, at Pensacola, he married Miss HILDUR DAHLSTROM, of Nebraska, daughter of Mr. 
And Mrs. G. A. DAHLSTROM, both natives of Sweden.  They have two sons, PHILIP D., Jr., and 
KIRKE MONROE.