Barton County, Missouri Biographies - John Beam

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889. 
Published by Goodspeed, 1889; Pg. 857--Barton County Biography Section

     John Beam, principal of the school of Iantha, Mo., and commissioner of 
the public schools of the county, is a native of Hardin County, Ky., born 
September 22, 1856.  His father, Simeon Beam, was born in Kentucky in 1833, 
and, in early life, was a farmer, but for the past twenty years has been a 
minister of the gospel, preaching the doctrine of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church.  He located in Monroe County, Mo., in 1857, where he resided until 
1884, since which time he has been a resident of St. Clair County.  His 
parents, Jacob and Lucretia Beam, were born in Pennsylvania, and died in 
Kentucky in 1835 and 1861, respectively.  Catherine Fields, wife of Simeon 
Beam and mother of our subject, was born in Kentucky in 1841, and became 
the mother of twelve children, of whom John is the fifth.  He lived with 
his people until twenty-one years of age, then entered the Collegiate 
Institute in Shelby County, Mo., which he attended two years, and spent the 
next two years in Colorado, after which he returned to Barton County.  
Since that time (1881) he has been engaged in teaching school and farming, 
and, since 1887, has been principal of the school at Iantha.  His recent 
election to the position of commissioner of public schools (with 
headquarters at Lamar) was a well-deserved compliment.  He is a member of 
the A. O. U. W., and is a Democrat in politics, being elected on that ticket, 
in 1887, to the office of township assessor.  In 1882 he was united marriage
to Miss Hattie Brown, who was born in Macoupin County, Ill., September 21, 
1863, and is a daughter of Hon. Robert Brown, whose sketch appears in this 
work.  She and Mr. Beam are the parents of three children, and are worthy 
and consistent members of the Christian Church.

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