Henry Warren Bean (1865 - 1940)

Born 17 Feb 1865 in Greenwood, Oxford, Maine

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Died 15 Oct 1940 at age 75 in Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine

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Biography

Henry Warren Bean is the son of Benjamin Warren Bean and Sarah (Swett) Bean.

Henry married May Viola Brackett, daughter of William Henry Brackett and Hannah Emily (Silver) Brackett of Auburn, Maine.

Henry was first employed in shoe manufacturing firms in Auburn ME, and then Hanover, PA. He and his family moved again to Jersey City, NJ where he became a traveling clothing salesman. Moving again to Melrose, MA he continued in this business, eventually switching to selling sporting goods for a company in Plymouth, NH. In about 1937, Henry and May moved to Freeport, ME where he worked in the sporting goods establishment started by his brother, Leon (LL) Bean.

Henry and May were Universalists (religion) and the parents of two sons:

• Earle Henry Bean, born October 11, 1894, in Yarmouth Maine, married Alvera Caroline Gustafson, and had two children;

• Norman Stewart Bean, born June 22, 1906, in Melrose, Maine, married Louis May Smith, and had two children.

Henry and May are buried in Melrose, Massachusetts

Sources

• Clan MacBean in North America, Volume I, Sixth Edition Revised 1992, by Joseph S. Bean, page 111
• The Silver Family Lineage of Anna, Charles, Mary, and Elisabeth Silver and Their Children compiled by Arthur E. Silver, second edition: February 1966, page 24.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Bob Silver for creating WikiTree profile Bean-1438 through the import of Dec2000.GED on Jun 5, 2013.