Kalkaska County MI Archives Biographies.....Beebe, D P 1838 - 
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Author: H.R. Page & Co., Chicago, 1884

"The Traverse Region, Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of 
Scenery and Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men 
and Pioneers"
Chicago: H.R. Page & Co., 1884

Page 314
D.P. Beebe loccated on Section 36, in the present town of Clearwater, in the 
spring of 1867.  He was born in Susquehanna County, Pa., in the year 1838.  In 
1861 he married Ellen, daughter of Norman Ross, who is also one of the 
pioneers of Kalkaska County.  September, 1862, Mr. Beebe enlisted in Company 
H, One Hundred and Forty-third Pennsylvania Regiment, and was in the service 
one year, at the end of which time he was discharged for disability.  He had 
been brought up on a farm and desiring to find a home in some new country 
where land was cheap, decided to try northern Michigan.  Accordingly, in the 
spring of 1867 he brought his family to Indiana, where Mr. Ross was then 
living, and leaving them there he came up to the Traverse Region and selected 
a location on Section 36, as above stated.  He then brought his family and 
they lived in what was known as the Jerry Curtis house until he could build 
one.  They moved into their own house the following fall, and Mr. Beebe went 
at work to make a farm.  The next year the town of Clearwater was organized 
and he was elected the first town treasurer.  In 1876 he was elected sheriff 
of the county and removed to the village of Kalkaska where he still lives.  He 
sold his farm to the county for a part of the poor farm.  He afterwards 
purchased land in Excelsior, and still owns a farm not far from the village.  
Mr. Beebe is a prominent member of the Odd Fellows and Masonic faternities.  
They have four children.

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