When James William Bean was born on 19 November 1853, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, James Addison Bean, was 19 and his mother, Harriet Catherine Fausett, was 20. He married Olive Smoot on 18 October 1876, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Tetonia, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Teton Election Precinct, Fremont, Idaho, United States for about 5 years. In 1880, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as clerk in store. He died on 5 August 1941, in Teton, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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English: nickname for a pleasant person, from Middle English bēne ‘friendly, amiable’.
English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of beans, from Middle English bene ‘bean’ (Old English bēan ‘beans’, a collective singular). The broad bean, Vicia faba, was a staple food in Europe in the Middle Ages. The green bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, came from South America and was not introduced to Europe until the late 16th century. The word bene was commonly used to denote something of little worth, and occasionally it may have been applied as a nickname for someone considered insignificant.
English: possibly a habitational or topographic name. Redmonds, Dictionary of Yorkshire Surnames, cites Adam del Bene of Harrogate (1351) as evidence to suggest that in the Harrogate area, where the Yorkshire name later proliferated, it may have been derived from a place where beans grew.
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