Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Beam, John E. December 12, 1858 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

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JOHN E. BEAM
	A son of the occident, having personally explored it from the gulf of 
California to Puget Sound, being skilled in the affairs of county government, 
our subject has, since his advent into our county, displayed an ability and 
intrinsic worth, together with enviable moral qualitites, that have won him a 
place high in the roll of honor.
	His parents joined the ranks of the ‘forty-niners and threaded the 
plains with the ox train of that day to the Golden state where he first saw 
the light on December 12, 1858.  Three years later he went with his parents to 
Carson City, Nevada, where his father continued the business of general 
merchandising and freighting that he had followed in California.  In this 
primitive place the subject of this sketch received a good education in the 
common schools, and a more practical and useful supplementary course in the 
postoffice and with the county assessor and treasurer.  In the year 1882 he 
came toward the north and finally settled in Umatilla county, where he has 
made his home ever since.  Weston was his first stopping place, and he 
continued there for six years, being occupied in bookkeeping, as deputy 
sheriff under Martin and Bentley, and as city marshal for two terms.  In 1888 
he moved to Pendleton and served as deputy county clerk for four years under 
Hartman and Pierce.  The following year he spent in the sheriff’s office under 
W. J. Furnist, after which he was employed for a year in the assessor’s and 
clerk’s offices.  At this time he took an extended tour through various 
portions of the country for pleasure and exploration, prolonging it for three 
years.  Upon his return in 1898 he was elected to the office of city recorder, 
and the following year he was re-elected for a term of two years, in which 
capacity he is at the present time doing excellent service.
	At Hastings, Michigan, in 1893, he was married to Miss Fannie H. 
Brown, a native of that state.  Four years later she was called to the world 
beyond.  Mr. Beam, more commonly know as Judge Beam, is happily affiliated 
with both branches of the I. O. O. F., and the W. of W., and the A. O. U. W.  
In Albany, this state, on December 26, 1900, he was married to Nellie W. 
Ashe.  During his long residence here he has demeaned himself in such a way 
that his friends are numbered in every walk of life throughout the entire 
county, while the high order of his capabilities and his patient industry have 
secured for him the reward of repeated preferment, both from the hands of 
private individuals and public officers and the people of the county at large, 
all of which he justly merits.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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