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Chapman (1880), Liberty Township biographies
b. 25 Sept. 1843 near Salem, Porter Co., Ind., son of Samuel C. and Currence B. Beebe (p. 723). Father died when he was three; common-school education, then Valparaiso Collegiate Institute (p. 723). Enlisted Aug. 1862 in the Marine Artillery, transferred to the 3rd N. Y. Artillery in North Carolina/South Carolina (siege of Charleston); discharged a year later; re-enlisted in the 138th Indiana (100+ days); third enlistment in the 151st Indiana to the close of the war (pp. 723–724). A year in Chicago, then business at Hebron, Ind.; m. Laura G. Cain, daughter of Wesley and Elizabeth Cain; one daughter, b. 15 Nov. 1875 (p. 723). Licensed as a local preacher 11 May 1872; Methodist appointments Marmont Circuit, Winamac, Argus, Wheeler, Union Mills, then the North Liberty circuit, “where he now lives and labors” (p. 724). [REGISTER] Carrying fact: the town’s 1880 Methodist circuit pastor, with a three-enlistment Civil War record — the military set’s clerical entry. Religion section carries the pastorate whole (NL-2, C-agreeing with Polk).