CIVIL WAR: Company A, 43rd Ohio Infantry
Joseph Clifford Beam was born in Ohio, the son of Thomas Lemon Beam and Rachel Clifford. He married (1) Margaret Jane (Davis) McMillen* at Bellaire in Belmont County, Ohio, on May 10, 1859 (Ohio Marriage Records; 1860 US Census). He enlisted as a private for 3 years on October 1, 1861, and was mustered into Company A, 43rd Ohio Infantry, on October 5. He was promoted to corporal April 30, 1862. Corporal Beam was mustered out for disability at St. Louis, Missouri, on February 25, 1863. He filed for a Civil War disability pension in Ohio February 8, 1864, and received certificate No. 29,120. After the war he became a doctor. He was a doctor living at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1870 with Margaret and his five step children (1870 US Census). By 1880 he was a physician at Iuka in Pratt County, Kansas, where he was living with Margaret and their adopted daughter Anna (born 1866, Wales)(1880 US Census). Sometime around 1884 he moved to San Diego, California, where he became a member of San Diego's Heintzelman Post, No. 33, Grand Army of the Republic, on June 30, 1886. After Margaret died at San Diego in 1889, he married (2) Sarah M. (..?..)(Apr. 1837, IN-Jan. 12, 1910) in 1892. In 1900 he and Sarah were living at San Diego (1900 US Census). He was a widower living at San Diego with his adopted daughter Anna in 1910 (1910 US Census).
* She previously had been married to Isaac McMillen (1822, Liverpool, England-18??; arrive NYC aboard the "Moslem" on Sep. 3, 1840). They were married in Belmont County, Ohio, on August 16, 1849.
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DEATHS.
BEAM - At the residence, No. 1120 Logan avenue, this city, March 4, 1914, Dr. Joseph C. Beam, father of T. Walter Beam of Denver, Colo., and Anna Beam of San Diego; father-in-law of Mrs. Margaret Beam of Philadelphia, Pa.; and brother of Mrs. Martha Graham of San Diego; a native of Ohio, aged 87 years, 22 days. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the chapel of Johnson Connell & Saum, Seventh and Broadway, tomorrow (Monday), at 2 o'clock p. m., Rev. W. McClish officiating. Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
(San Diego Union, Sunday, March 8, 1914; Pg. 5)
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Children:
- (step) Robert Nelson McMILLEN (1850, OH-1923, KS)
- (step) Thomas Walter McMILLEN (1853, OH-after 1914, CO?)
- (step) Alvin McMILLEN (1855, OH-before 1914)
- (step) Ada (McMILLEN) BEAM (1857, OH-before 1914)
- (step) Dr. Henry Francis (McMILLEN) BEAM (1859, OH-before 1914, PA; m. Margaret Elizabeth Irwin)
- (adopted) Anna H. BEAM (1866, Wales-after 1914, CA?)
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Biography courtesy of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Dept. of California and Pacific.
Joseph Clifford Beam was born in Ohio, the son of Thomas Lemon Beam and Rachel Clifford. He married (1) Margaret Jane (Davis) McMillen* at Bellaire in Belmont County, Ohio, on May 10, 1859 (Ohio Marriage Records; 1860 US Census). He enlisted as a private for 3 years on October 1, 1861, and was mustered into Company A, 43rd Ohio Infantry, on October 5. He was promoted to corporal April 30, 1862. Corporal Beam was mustered out for disability at St. Louis, Missouri, on February 25, 1863. He filed for a Civil War disability pension in Ohio February 8, 1864, and received certificate No. 29,120. After the war he became a doctor. He was a doctor living at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1870 with Margaret and his five step children (1870 US Census). By 1880 he was a physician at Iuka in Pratt County, Kansas, where he was living with Margaret and their adopted daughter Anna (born 1866, Wales)(1880 US Census). Sometime around 1884 he moved to San Diego, California, where he became a member of San Diego's Heintzelman Post, No. 33, Grand Army of the Republic, on June 30, 1886. After Margaret died at San Diego in 1889, he married (2) Sarah M. (..?..)(Apr. 1837, IN-Jan. 12, 1910) in 1892. In 1900 he and Sarah were living at San Diego (1900 US Census). He was a widower living at San Diego with his adopted daughter Anna in 1910 (1910 US Census).
* She previously had been married to Isaac McMillen (1822, Liverpool, England-18??; arrive NYC aboard the "Moslem" on Sep. 3, 1840). They were married in Belmont County, Ohio, on August 16, 1849.
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DEATHS.
BEAM - At the residence, No. 1120 Logan avenue, this city, March 4, 1914, Dr. Joseph C. Beam, father of T. Walter Beam of Denver, Colo., and Anna Beam of San Diego; father-in-law of Mrs. Margaret Beam of Philadelphia, Pa.; and brother of Mrs. Martha Graham of San Diego; a native of Ohio, aged 87 years, 22 days. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the chapel of Johnson Connell & Saum, Seventh and Broadway, tomorrow (Monday), at 2 o'clock p. m., Rev. W. McClish officiating. Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
(San Diego Union, Sunday, March 8, 1914; Pg. 5)
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Children:
- (step) Robert Nelson McMILLEN (1850, OH-1923, KS)
- (step) Thomas Walter McMILLEN (1853, OH-after 1914, CO?)
- (step) Alvin McMILLEN (1855, OH-before 1914)
- (step) Ada (McMILLEN) BEAM (1857, OH-before 1914)
- (step) Dr. Henry Francis (McMILLEN) BEAM (1859, OH-before 1914, PA; m. Margaret Elizabeth Irwin)
- (adopted) Anna H. BEAM (1866, Wales-after 1914, CA?)
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Biography courtesy of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Dept. of California and Pacific.
CIVIL WAR: Company A, 43rd Ohio Infantry
Joseph Clifford Beam was born in Ohio, the son of Thomas Lemon Beam and Rachel Clifford. He married (1) Margaret Jane (Davis) McMillen* at Bellaire in Belmont County, Ohio, on May 10, 1859 (Ohio Marriage Records; 1860 US Census). He enlisted as a private for 3 years on October 1, 1861, and was mustered into Company A, 43rd Ohio Infantry, on October 5. He was promoted to corporal April 30, 1862. Corporal Beam was mustered out for disability at St. Louis, Missouri, on February 25, 1863. He filed for a Civil War disability pension in Ohio February 8, 1864, and received certificate No. 29,120. After the war he became a doctor. He was a doctor living at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1870 with Margaret and his five step children (1870 US Census). By 1880 he was a physician at Iuka in Pratt County, Kansas, where he was living with Margaret and their adopted daughter Anna (born 1866, Wales)(1880 US Census). Sometime around 1884 he moved to San Diego, California, where he became a member of San Diego's Heintzelman Post, No. 33, Grand Army of the Republic, on June 30, 1886. After Margaret died at San Diego in 1889, he married (2) Sarah M. (..?..)(Apr. 1837, IN-Jan. 12, 1910) in 1892. In 1900 he and Sarah were living at San Diego (1900 US Census). He was a widower living at San Diego with his adopted daughter Anna in 1910 (1910 US Census).
* She previously had been married to Isaac McMillen (1822, Liverpool, England-18??; arrive NYC aboard the "Moslem" on Sep. 3, 1840). They were married in Belmont County, Ohio, on August 16, 1849.
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DEATHS.
BEAM - At the residence, No. 1120 Logan avenue, this city, March 4, 1914, Dr. Joseph C. Beam, father of T. Walter Beam of Denver, Colo., and Anna Beam of San Diego; father-in-law of Mrs. Margaret Beam of Philadelphia, Pa.; and brother of Mrs. Martha Graham of San Diego; a native of Ohio, aged 87 years, 22 days. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the chapel of Johnson Connell & Saum, Seventh and Broadway, tomorrow (Monday), at 2 o'clock p. m., Rev. W. McClish officiating. Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
(San Diego Union, Sunday, March 8, 1914; Pg. 5)
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Children:
- (step) Robert Nelson McMILLEN (1850, OH-1923, KS)
- (step) Thomas Walter McMILLEN (1853, OH-after 1914, CO?)
- (step) Alvin McMILLEN (1855, OH-before 1914)
- (step) Ada (McMILLEN) BEAM (1857, OH-before 1914)
- (step) Dr. Henry Francis (McMILLEN) BEAM (1859, OH-before 1914, PA; m. Margaret Elizabeth Irwin)
- (adopted) Anna H. BEAM (1866, Wales-after 1914, CA?)
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Biography courtesy of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Dept. of California and Pacific.
Joseph Clifford Beam was born in Ohio, the son of Thomas Lemon Beam and Rachel Clifford. He married (1) Margaret Jane (Davis) McMillen* at Bellaire in Belmont County, Ohio, on May 10, 1859 (Ohio Marriage Records; 1860 US Census). He enlisted as a private for 3 years on October 1, 1861, and was mustered into Company A, 43rd Ohio Infantry, on October 5. He was promoted to corporal April 30, 1862. Corporal Beam was mustered out for disability at St. Louis, Missouri, on February 25, 1863. He filed for a Civil War disability pension in Ohio February 8, 1864, and received certificate No. 29,120. After the war he became a doctor. He was a doctor living at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1870 with Margaret and his five step children (1870 US Census). By 1880 he was a physician at Iuka in Pratt County, Kansas, where he was living with Margaret and their adopted daughter Anna (born 1866, Wales)(1880 US Census). Sometime around 1884 he moved to San Diego, California, where he became a member of San Diego's Heintzelman Post, No. 33, Grand Army of the Republic, on June 30, 1886. After Margaret died at San Diego in 1889, he married (2) Sarah M. (..?..)(Apr. 1837, IN-Jan. 12, 1910) in 1892. In 1900 he and Sarah were living at San Diego (1900 US Census). He was a widower living at San Diego with his adopted daughter Anna in 1910 (1910 US Census).
* She previously had been married to Isaac McMillen (1822, Liverpool, England-18??; arrive NYC aboard the "Moslem" on Sep. 3, 1840). They were married in Belmont County, Ohio, on August 16, 1849.
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DEATHS.
BEAM - At the residence, No. 1120 Logan avenue, this city, March 4, 1914, Dr. Joseph C. Beam, father of T. Walter Beam of Denver, Colo., and Anna Beam of San Diego; father-in-law of Mrs. Margaret Beam of Philadelphia, Pa.; and brother of Mrs. Martha Graham of San Diego; a native of Ohio, aged 87 years, 22 days. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the chapel of Johnson Connell & Saum, Seventh and Broadway, tomorrow (Monday), at 2 o'clock p. m., Rev. W. McClish officiating. Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
(San Diego Union, Sunday, March 8, 1914; Pg. 5)
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Children:
- (step) Robert Nelson McMILLEN (1850, OH-1923, KS)
- (step) Thomas Walter McMILLEN (1853, OH-after 1914, CO?)
- (step) Alvin McMILLEN (1855, OH-before 1914)
- (step) Ada (McMILLEN) BEAM (1857, OH-before 1914)
- (step) Dr. Henry Francis (McMILLEN) BEAM (1859, OH-before 1914, PA; m. Margaret Elizabeth Irwin)
- (adopted) Anna H. BEAM (1866, Wales-after 1914, CA?)
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Biography courtesy of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Dept. of California and Pacific.
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