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Jacob Beeson.
Our community was startled, —was fearfully shocked, early on Sunday morning, April 19, 1885, at the announcement, "Jacob Beeson is dead!" He had been on the streets almost daily, in his usual health, and it is not •strange that the mournful message was received with surprise. An old and . honored citizen had passed away suddenly and without warning; an old landmark had been removed.
Jacob Beeson was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1807. His early youth was passed with an uncle in Hardy County, Virginia, and later, in his early manhood, he spent; some years in Georgia and New Orleans with the same uncle, who was engaged in the mercantile business. He returned to Uniontown, his native place, in 1829 for a short time, but in the fall of that year journeyed on horseback to the wilds of Michigan Territory, then just beginning to attract the attention of wide-awake and enterprising men in the old States.
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