- CHARLES W. BEALS (deceased) was a well-known and highly respected
citizen of the town
- of Beloit, Rock County, for many years, and built up a character
and a standing in the community in which he lived so many years
that are still remembered with words of warm appreciation by
his old associates.
- Mr. BEALS was born at Floyd, N.Y., Sept. 1, 1816, and was
taken by his parents when a child
- of two years of age to Burlington, Vt., where he was reared
to manhood, and received a good education at the hands of the
public school teachers of the State. He early learned the millwright's
trade, and worked much while a boy in the woolen mills of Massachusetts.
When he attained manhood Mr. BEALS came West to Michigan, and
spent several years in the Saginaw Valley. He went from there
to Hartland, Ohio, where he remained for twenty years, and only
the California gold fever was strong enough to tear him away
from pleasant ties. In 1850 he went to California by the overland
route, and returned by way of the Isthmus. In 1864 Mr. BEALS
made an extended trip to Idaho, Oregon and Colorado. In 1870
he made his first appearance in Wisconsin, locating at Prairie
du Sac, where he spent one year, and then removed to the vicinity
of Beloit where he established a beautiful fruit farm, which
attracted universal admiration for its high cultivation and perfect
management. He was familiarly known in Beloit as the "strawberry
man."
- On Oct. 12, 1869, Mr. BEALS was married in Ohio, to Miss
Johanna JONES, who was born
- in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, Oct. 26, 1850. They had three
children, Albert M., Elmer E., and Alice Gertrude. Mrs. BEALS
is the daughter of George and Eliza (JORDAN) JONES, the former
a native of New York, the latter of Rockport, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio.
He died in Baraboo, Wis. when about fifty years old, and was
the father of eight children, of whom Mrs. BEALS was the eldest.
- Charles W. BEALS was a Republican. His religious views were
those of the liberal school, and
- consisted of good deeds and manly conduct rather than profession.
He paid one hundred cents on the dollar, and exercised charity
as proper subjects for it came under his eye. He was an honest
man, and was forcible in the expression of his views on all subject.
He was satisfied in his last days that honorable manhood was
a good capital to live by, and would certainly be a recommendation
in that "undiscovered country, from whose borne no traveler
returns."
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 13-14.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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