BIO: William Irwin BEBOUT, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 269-270.
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  WILLIAM IRWIN BEBOUT, proprietor of a large general store in Darlington, Pa.,
  whose portrait we present on the preceding page, has been found at the same
  stand for the past twenty-seven years. He deals in drugs, hardware,
  groceries, harness, paints, house furnishings, tin, granite, and enamel ware.
  Mr. Bebout was born in Mercer county, Pa., July 25, 1843. He is a son of Ellis
  and Olivia (Campfield) Bebout, and grandson of Peter Bebout.
  
  Peter Bebout was a native of Green county, Pa., but at an early date removed
  to Mercer county, where he bought two hundred acres of wild land. After
  clearing a portion of it, he built a house and barn, and followed farming all
  his life.
  
  Ellis Bebout, father of the subject hereof, was born in Mercer county, where
  he received his scholastic training. He afterward assisted his father on the
  farm; one hundred acres of the homestead farm were given him as his share of
  the estate. He married Olivia Campfield. Olivia was born in Mercer, where she
  was also educated. The following seven children were born to them: John C.,
  who was killed in the army when twenty-one; Wesley S., a merchant in Mercer
  county; William Irwin, the subject of these lines; Alfred S., a retired
  merchant; Andrew J., a merchant, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Elizabeth Jane (Hewett);
  and Mary A.  Ellis Bebout was a Whig. He was a member of the M. E. church, of
  which he was Sunday school superintendent for years. He died in 1852, at the
  early age of thirty-eight years, and was survived by his widow until 1896
  when she, too, crossed the river of death.
  
  William Irwin Bebout was mentally instructed in the public schools, which he
  attended constantly until he attained the age of seventeen years. He then
  enlisted in the Union Army, September 2, 1861; he entered Company B, 76th
  Reg., Pa. Zouaves, and participated in the following battles: Pocotaligo,
  Fort Wagner and Strawberry Plains. He was engaged in the siege of Petersburg,
  in Butler's and Grant's campaigns in Virginia, in connection with the Mine
  Explosion, and other historical events. He was honorably discharged November
  30, 1864. He was severely wounded by a gun shot at Fort Wagner, July 11,
  1863. He was in the hos-
  
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  pital at Hilton Head for about nine months. While there, he was treated not
  only for his wound, but for lung and heart ailments and for neuralgia. At
  Botany Bay Isle, he was treated for laryngitis for several weeks. Mr.
  Bebout's brother, John C., was in the same company, and was killed while on
  picket duty at James Island, June 15, 1862.
  
  Mr. Bebout was joined in marriage April 2, 1872, with Margaret M. McConnell.
  Mrs. Bebout was a native of Mercer county, Pa., where she was born, February
  8, 1847. She was a daughter of Henry and Julia A. (Bruce) McConnell. Her
  primary education was received at her native place. Afterward, she entered
  Edinboro State Normal School, from which she hoped to graduate. Ill-health
  prevented this, however, compelling her to leave the institution. To Mr.
  Bebout and his amiable wife, one child, Anna Maude, was born; her birth
  occurring in Darlington, in September, 187. After preliminary schooling she
  took a finishing course at Darlington Academy. From the time of the death of
  her beloved mother, in 1889, Anna Maude kept house for her father until her
  marriage with Mr. S. S. Leiper, of Darlington.
  
  After the war, the subject of this sketch engaged in farming for one year and
  then for several years was a carpenter. He subsequently clerked awhile for his
  brother, who was a druggist. In 1872, he purchased Dr. Ball's business and
  started a drug store at his present location in Darlington. At a late date he
  added the lines previously mentioned, and enjoys a liberal patronage. As a
  businessman he is exceedingly popular. In politics, Mr. Bebout is a
  Republican. He has served in the borough council for several terms, and is
  still a member of that honorable body. He is in accord with the United
  Presbyterian church. Fraternally, he is enrolled as a member of the I. O. O.
  F., of Sharpsville, Pennsylvania.