John W. Beebe

John W. Beebe,was born in Milford, Delaware on August 3, 1853. He moved to Indiana in 1873. He moved to Kansas in 1878 but returned to Anderson, Indiana in 1894 where he served as deputy recorder for two years and then as bookkeeper at the First National Bank of Elwood. He was author of Prairie Flowers (G. W. Crane & co., printers, Topeka, Kan. 1891) a book of poetry. He died in Elwood, Indiana June 10, 1938.

Dianne Shapiro, from "Indiana Authors and Their Books 1917-1966" by David Eugene Thompson (Crawfordsville, IN Wabash College, 1974) accessed online at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inauthors/view?docId=encyclopedia/VAA5365-02.xml;chunk.id=ina-v2-entry-0164;toc.depth=1;toc.id=ina-v2-entry-0164;brand=ia-books;doc.view=0;query=&text1=mary%20hagler&field1=text&hit.rank= 3/14/2020)