BIO:  Henry Beelman, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Monaghan Township, Pg 146

HENRY BEELMAN was born April 26, 1840, and is the son of Adam Beelman, German 
Baptist minister of Carroll Township.  His boyhood was passed on the farm until 
the age of eighteen, when he began to learn carpentering with his father.  He 
afterward became a teacher, and while thus engaged was drafted in 1862, but was 
exempted on account of his profession.  In 1863 he went to Washington, D. C., was 
secured by the government as a carpenter, and was employed a year at Alexandria, 
Va.  In 1866 he married Maggie E., daughter of David Williams, of Monaghan, went 
to housekeeping on the old homestead, where he farmed six years, and then moved 
to Dillsburg, and followed carpentering ten years.  In the fall of 1882 he bought 
the Williams homestead, took possession in the spring of 1883, and still resides 
there, engaged in farming.  From 1881 to 1884 he was also engaged in the dairy 
business at Dillsburg.  Mr. and Mrs. Beelman have been members of the German 
Baptist Church since 1869, and are the parents of six children – two boys and 
four girls.  Mr. Beelman has served his township as school director and auditor.