John Benjamin Bean

Brief Life History of John Benjamin

When John Benjamin Bean was born on 28 December 1899, in Morton Township, Ottawa, Kansas, United States, his father, William Lincoln Bean, was 33 and his mother, Minnie May Austin, was 28. He died on 19 January 1970, in Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 70.

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Family Time Line

William Lincoln Bean
1866–1941
Minnie May Austin
1871–1915
Harry Austin Bean
1891–1896
Bean
1895–1895
Alice Bean
1893–1955
Sarah Bean
1896–1972
Lawrence Lee Bean
1898–1990
John Benjamin Bean
1899–1970
Glenn William Bean
1902–1957
Claude Everett Bean
1904–1982

Sources (1)

  • John B Bean in household of William L Bean, "United States Census, 1910"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

Name Meaning

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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