Clinton County IA Archives Biographies.....Beil, Reuben H. 1885 - 
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REUBEN H. BEIL, owner of the Beil Studio and Beil Photo Supply House at  
Clinton, is a native son of that city and is one of its most active and public  
spirited younger citizens.

He was born in Clinton April 26, 1885, son of  Thomas A. and Clara (Stukas) 
Beil.  His father was a native of Pennsylvania  and his mother of Illinois, and 
the former came to Iowa when a young man.  Reuben H. Beil was educated in the 
Clinton grade schools.  When he  was sixteen years of age he was working as a 
clerk in a grocery store.  After a year he entered the rug business, which he 
followed for eight  years.

Since then he has been a photographer, and since 1912 the Beil Studio  has 
enjoyed a reputation and a business that ranks it among the leading studios  of 
the Mississippi Valley.  The Beil Photo Supply House is a general retail  
business well known in the Clinton trade territory.  Mr. Beil's studio is 
located at the corner of Second street and Second Avenue, South.

He married, July 20, 1909, Hansine Christensen, daughter of Mr. and  Mrs. 
Christen Christensen.  Her father came from Denmark when a young man  and for 
many years worked as a wagon maker in Clinton.  Mr. and Mrs. Beil  have two 
children, Edna and Mildred.  Mr. Beil is a thirty-second degree  Scottish Rite 
Mason, a member of the Woodmen, the Loyal Order of Moose, the  Chamber of
Commerce and the Methodist Episcopal Church.


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