Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Beedy, N S
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

N. S. BEEDY, hardware merchant, of the firm of HARSH & BEEDY, Peotone; born in Essex Co., 
N. Y., Feb. 9, 1835; lived there until 10 years of age, then he went to Canada, where he 
remained five years, when, in 1850, he emigrated to Illinois and located at Lockport, Will 
Co., living there one year; he removed to Rockville, Kankakee Co., and, with his father, was 
amongst the pioneers and organizers of the town of Manteno in 1854; he lived here until 1865, 
engaged in farming, when he removed to Peotone Twp., and followed farming until 1874, when he 
sold his farm and went to Indiana, where be remained two and a half years, engaged in running 
the railroad eating-house in Michigan City; selling out the above business, he returned to 
Peotone and purchased the interest of C. M. LEWIS in the above business, which he has since 
followed. He married Sept. 22, 1858, Phebe GOODSPEED, oldest daughter of Samuel GOODSPEED; she 
was born in Will Co., IL.; they are the parents of five children by this union - Orrel M., 
Hettie A., Abbie E., Daniel N. and Carl.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

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