IRVING W. BEEMS
Irving W. Beems, justice of the peace and insurance agent, was born in Muskingum county, 0., in 1847; removed with parents to Jasper county, Ia., in 1856; was in the employ of the C. & R. I. railroad company several years, and in April, 1875, moved to Shelby county, and engaged in farming in Jackson township, until Sept., 1878, when he moved to Harlan, and engaged in the insurance business; is special agent for the Underwriters, of N. Y. Gemania, of N. Y.; Westchester, of N. Y.; N. Y. City Fire Ins. Co. American, of Philadelphia; Springfield Fire and Marine Ins. Co., Iowa State, of Keokuk; and Hawkeye, of Des Moines. Office on the north side of public square. He was elected justice of the peace in 1881, on the republican ticket. He was married in 1868, in Jasper county, to Sarah E. Plummer, and has four children.
Transcribed February, 2018 by Cheryl Siebrass from: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth, published in Sioux City, IA.: Western Publishing Company, 1882, pg. 415.
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