Beecroft, Henry

BEECROFT

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Date: 10/7/2019 at 18:39:54

Henry Beecroft

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.6, Council Bluffs)
Henry Beecroft, Livery, Council Bluffs, came to Council Bluffs in 1860, and engaged in teaming. He commenced draying in 1865, with one team, and kept increasing until at present he has four teams at work. He bought his livery stable September 9, 1882, but still keeps three teams at work draying and two cabs running; he has fourteen horses in livery stock, besides several boarders; he employs five men. Mr. Beecroft was born in England in 1840, and came to the United States in 1851, his parents settling in Missouri. In two years, they removed to Salt Lake, our subject remaining there three years; he was married, in 1863, to Miss Mary Reeves, of Council Bluffs, and they have eight children, equally divided, four boys and four girls. Mr. Beeeroft is a Republican in politics.