BIOGRAPHIES: Hiram A. BEARDSLEY Jr., Bear Lake Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: L. D. (Bert) Semmelink 18 March 2002 ==================================================================== Hiram A. Beardsley, Jr., an active farmer of Section 34, Bear Lake Township, was born in the City of Jefferson, Jefferson County Wisconsin, June 15, 1875, son of Hiram A. Sr., an Josephine (Fox) Beardsley, natives of New York state and Connecticut respectively. He acquired his education in the common schools and for some years worked on the farm with his father. In 1895 he went west to Watertown, S.D., and took up decorating business as a painter and paperhanger. There he remained for eight years. In 1904 he came to Rice Lake, Barron County, WI. where he continued the same line of work. Ten years later, in 1914 he purchased his present farm of eighty acres in Section 34, Bear lake Township. He is successfully carrying on general farming and dairying along the latest approved lines. The place is well developed and well equipped and the cattle are of good grade. Mr. Beardsley is a stockholder in the Cloverleaf Cheese Company. In Watertown S. D. he joined the Sons of Veterans, of which organization he still remains a member. Mr. Beardsley was married at Watertown S. D., Dec. 23, 1896, to Grace A. Beardsley, daughter of George W. and Susan (Crandall) Beardsley. Her father a carpenter and jointer by trade, fought for the Union throughout the entire Civil War, being a member of company C, Nineteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner and confined in Libby prison for eight months. In 1878 he went to Watertown S. D. where he was a member of the Grand Army Post. In 1906 he came to Rice Lake, Barron county Wis. He is now living in the old soldiers home in Waupaca, Wis. He and his wife Susan were married at Jefferson Wis., July 4 1875. Mrs. Beardsley is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army. Mr. And Mrs. Hiram A. Beardsley Jr., have become the parents of eight children, namely: Clay, who was born Jan. 17, 1898, and died July 23, 1909; Stanley, born Sept. 12, 1904; Aretta, born March 27, 1906; Elsie, born March 12, 1908; Eveline, born Oct 9, 1910, and died Jan. 21, 1911; Neal, born May 5, 1914; Genevieve, born June 3, 1916, and Dewey Earl, born June 21, 1921. The family faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 713.