Roscoe
A
Bean
Born in Belleville, Ohio
Ancestors 
Son of John Bean
and Emeline (Edgecomb) Bean
Brother of
Annette May (Bean) Gober
Husband of
Margaret Lucinda (Alleman) Bean
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 76
in Lenawee County, Michigan
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Dec 2017
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Biography
Roscoe A. Bean was born November 23, 1849, in Belleville, Ohio, the son of John Bean and Emeline (Edgecomb) Bean. On October 6, 1871, in Belleville, Roscoe married Maggie Lavinia "Minnie" Aleman.
In 1880, Roscoe's father was advised by his doctor to move to California for health reasons. His father invented a device with which to spray orchards and demonstrated at the California Fair, in 1884. This became the beginning of the John Bean Spray Pump Company. In 1883 Roscoe moved to entered a partnership with his father and called the company the John Bean Manufacturing Company. Roscoe collaborated with H.G. Chamberlain in creating a branch in Hudson, Michigan, called the Bean-Chamberlain Manufacturing Company, which exhibited at the 1895 Michigan State Fair.
- Exhibiters and the Good They Exhibited: Large and interesting Display The Michigan State Fair, at Grand Rapids, opened Monday, September 9 [1895] and was favored throughout with fine weather .... Bean-Chamberlin Manufacturing Company, Hudson, Michigan. A highly finished and complete line of steel and chilled plows, wood beam sulky plow, a line of bicycles in different sizes and weights. The company also exhibited in the wind mill annex a four-post steel tower with the back gear pumping and direct stroke mills, also a full exhibit of pumps, spray pumps and the Bean pneumatic. Roscoe Bean, president of the company, and H.G. Chamberlin were at the fair. C.W. Atkinson was in charge of the exhibit. [1]
Roscoe's son, Leroy Bean continued the business in San Francisco. Roscoe died April 3, 1926, in Lenawee County, Michigan and is buried in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Hudson, Lenawee County, Michigan. [2]
Sources
- ↑ Farm Implement News, Volume 16, 1895, page 27
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73303073/Roscoe-A-Bean
- Clan MacBean of North America, Volume I, Sixth Edition, Revised 1992, by Joseph S. Bean, page 582-583
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