John W. Beach Biography


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	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 449-450

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HON. JOHN W. BEACH, farmer and dairyman, residing on the northeast 
quarter of section 10, in Rosedale township, Clarke county, is the 
possessor of a fine estate comprising three hundred and twenty acres. 

Mr. Beach is a native of Portage county, Wisconsin, and was born 
February 7, 1862, was the only son, and is now the sole survivor in a 
family of four children born to John F. and Anna T. (England) Beach. 
The father was of English extraction and the mother was of German 
descent. 

Our subject was reared to farming, but received a liberal education, 
taking a course at Oshkosh Normal. He taught school five years and in 
the spring of 1883 went to Dakota and took the land he now owns. He 
returned to his home for the winter and taught again in the school 
room, going to Dakota the following spring to make permanent 
settlement. He is now in the home dairy business, and keeps from seven 
to nine cows, supplying milk to regular customers. He has cooling 
tanks, splendid water, and a well arranged property for carrying on 
that branch of the work. 

Our subject was married in 1883 to Miss Violet L. Albright. Two 
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Beach, named as follows: Lucile 
and Roy. Our subject worships with the Seventh Day Adventists, and is a 
consistent member of that body. He has taken an active interest in 
religious matters, and is secretary of the state Adventist conference, 
and devotes much of his spare time in laboring for the upbuilding of 
his faith. In political sentiment he is a Populist, prohibitionist and 
equal suffragist. He was elected to the state legislature in 1891 and 
became identified with the prohibition movement, and was also a member 
of the apportionment committee. His public as well as private life is 
beyond criticism, and his ardent labors for the betterment of mankind, 
and reform in general, should receive the hearty support of every 
citizen in Dakota. He is a well informed man, being well versed on 
topics under daily discussion, and is widely and favorably known as a 
citizen devoted to his adopted country's best interest. He has met with 
eminent success in a financial sense, and is a man of strict integrity, 
careful and methodical in his habits, and carries these characteristics 
into the details of life. Wherever he has made his home he has gained 
many Friends by his push and energy, and his name is associated with 
the higher interests of Clark county. The vocation in which he is 
engaged calls for those traits dominant in our subject, to insure the 
success which he so well merits.