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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   HON. R. B. BEAUCHAMP, one of the leading lawyers of the Tipton bar, is a
native of Grant County, Ind., where he was born October 3, 1845. His father,
Curtis Beauchamp, was born in Wayne County, Ind., July 20, 1818, and remained in
his native county until his twenty-first year, when he removed with his parents
to Grant County, Ind. There, on the 7th of January, 1842, he was united in
marriage to Miss Rachel Schooley, who was also a native of Wayne County, having
been born there October 14, 1824, but removed with her parents, when she was
quite young, to Henry County, Ind., whence, after a short residence, she again
removed with them to Grant County. In 1844, Isaac Beauchamp, then the only child
of Curtis Beauchamp and wife, died, being at the time only a few weeks old. This
infant and our subject were the only issue of Curtis and Rachel Beauchamp. When
the subject of this sketch was about one year old, his father removed with him
to Miami County, Ind., where he had entered 160 acres of land from the
Government, on the present site of Amboy. That section of country was then an
almost uninhabited wilderness, but he soon had a large portion of his wild tract
of land converted into a productive farm. His death occurred in Grant County,
Ind., on July 2, 1866. He was an earnest believer in the Christian religion. He
lived a strictly honest and honorable life. The mother of our subject resides in
Tipton, on the same lot that contains the residence of her son. R. B. Beauchamp
received his education from the common schools of the State and the high school
of Marion, the county seat of Grant County. Several years were spent in
teaching, when, in 1869, he took up the study of the law at Marion, Ind. After
two years' study, he removed to Tipton, and entered upon the practice of his
profession. In 1872, after a residence of one year, he was elected District
Attorney of the district, including the counties of Tipton, Hamilton, Howard,
Clinton and Grant. But the General Assembly of 1872-73 abolished Common Pleas
Courts and the office of District Attorney, so that Mr. Beauchamp only
discharged the duties of that office about three months. In 1874, he was elected
Prosecuting Attorney for the Thirty-sixth Judicial District, composed of the
counties of Howard and Tipton, and filled that office for one term of two years.
Up to the year 1878, Mr. Beauchamp had always been an energetic Republican, but
becoming dissatisfied with the position taken by that party on some of the
leading questions of the day, he transferred his allegiance to the Democratic
party. As an indication of the feeling existing between him and his new
political associates, it is only necessary to say that at a mass convention of
the Democracy of Tipton County, held in the Opera House, in the spring of 1882,
he was unanimously chosen as the candidate of that county for Congress, He was
married in Lawrence County, Ill., October 25, 1871, to Miss Carrie Frazer. They
have a family of two children, consisting of Carrie E. (known as Bonnie), and
Ora E. Beauchamp. Mr. Beauchamp was at one time the partner of Judge N. R.
Overman, and, on the election of that gentleman to the bench, succeeded to his
extensive and lucrative practice.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.

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