Garfield Township, was born in Jacksonville, Ill., Jan. 11, 1832, and is a son of Caleb and Mary A. Beach. He worked on the farm in Illinois until 1853, when he came to this county and settled two miles south of Granville then he removed to Garfield Township, in 1866. Mr. Beach was married, April 17, 1853, to Martha Campbell, a native of Scott County, Illinois. Mr. Beach has 195 acres of land in his present farm. He not only carries on the farm, but is a breeder of Short-horn cattle, and has a fine herd, among them representatives of the best families now on this continent, and keeps at all times a fine lot of calves for sale. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Knight Templar. Politically he is a Republican, and at the session of 1874-76 represented Mahaska County in the General Assembly of Iowa, in the Lower House. Mr. Beach is a man who has grown with the growth of this county, and has witnessed its development to its present high position among the counties of the State, and his life among us has ever been an open book that might be read and known of all men. He is an honorable, high-minded, upright citizen, a systematic and successful farmer, and enjoys in esteem of his fellow-men.

Born in Jacksonville, Ill., Jan. 11, 1832, and is a son of Caleb and Mary A. Beach. He worked on the farm in Illinois until 1853, when he came to this county and settled two miles south of Granville then he removed to Garfield Township, in 1866. Mr. Beach was married, April 17, 1853, to Martha Campbell, a native of Scott County, Illinois. Mr. Beach has 195 acres of land in his present farm. He not only carries on the farm, but is a breeder of Short-horn cattle, and has a fine herd, among them representatives of the best families now on this continent, and keeps at all times a fine lot of calves for sale. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Knight Templar. Politically he is a Republican, and at the session of 1874-76 represented Mahaska County in the General Assembly of Iowa, in the Lower House. Mr. Beach is a man who has grown with the growth of this county, and has witnessed its development to its present high position among the counties of the State, and his life among us has ever been an open book that might be read and known of all men. He is an honorable, high-minded, upright citizen, a systematic and successful farmer, and enjoys in esteem of his fellow-men.