John H. Beecher ¹

   FamilySearch ID: LC2W-QDZ.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1860 in Garrettsville, Portage, OH. ¹ Samuel S. Beecher, 32, merchant, was living with wife Maria, 23; Clara E., 5; Cora E., 3; Harriet, 10; John, 19, merchants clerk. [Listing Harriet and John after the younger children indicates they are not Samuel's Beechers, but perhaps siblings, or their father is the Henry below.] Also with them: Franklin Raymer, 23, and Eliza Wood, 23, house work. Samuel's real estate was valued at $3,300, his personal estate at $7,000.

The next household is Lavinia H?nut, 40, house keeper; her daughters Caroline E. 41, and Loveland C. 17; and Henry Beecher, 42, merchant. Henry's real estate was worth $5,780 and personal estate $25,000.

Everyone was born in Ohio, except Eliza in Pennsylvania, and Lavinia in New York.

2. Census in 1870 in Nelson Twp., Portage, OH. ² John Beecher, 29, farmer, was living with wife Adda, 25. Also in the home was Sarah Miller, 63. [She could be John's mother in law?] Fannie Johnson, 17, domestic, born in England, was with them. John was born in Ohio, his wife and Sarah in Maryland. His real estate was worth $10,000 and personal estate $4,000, indicating he had inherited wealth since his 1860 census.

John married Adda. (Adda was born about 1845 in La Plata, Charles, MD ².)