Greene-Harrison-Lawrence County IN Archives Biographies.....Beard, G. W. 1836 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   G. W. BEARD, editor of the Bloomfield News, is a native of the Hoosier State,
born December 28, 1836, in Harrison County. He was one of six sons and two
daughters born to the marriage of Jesse Beard and Charlotte Bullock, who were
natives respectively of Virginia and Georgia, and of Irish-Scotch descent. G. W.
was raised in his native county to manhood, receiving the greater part of his
education from the common schools, and when about sixteen years old was
apprenticed to the printer's trade on the Western Argus, of Corydon. For eight
years, he was employed on the mechanical part of this periodical, then became
editor and proprietor, continuing as such until the breaking-out of the
rebellion. August 22, 1861, he enrolled his name as a private in Company B,
Third Indiana Cavalry, and was an active participant in the battles of Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and numerous other
engagements, amounting in all to 120. May 11, 1864, while on Sheridan's raid to
Richmond, he received a severe grape-shot wound in the left hip. September 7,
1864, he was honorably discharged from the service, wearing, as a mark of honor,
a Sergeant's chevron. For one season, Mr. Beard farmed in Lawrence County; then
engaged in mercantile business in Greene County, which he continued until 1874,
afterward farming five years or thereabouts. Since 1879, he has resided in
Bloomfield, engaged in journalism. Miss Angie Broaddus became his wife on the
8th of February, 1864, and to their union have been born six children—Lena,
Broaddus, Jennie, Stannard, Daisy and Georgia. The mother is a member of the
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Beard is one of the prominent Republicans of the
county, and through the News is doing valuable work for his party. He issues a
bright, attractive paper weekly, filled with able editorials and spicy local
news, which is fast becoming the weekly visitor of all the better families of
Greene County.

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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