Alexander Beasley

The subject of this sketch has well earned the honor to be addressed as one of the progressive, public-spirited men of Greene county, since from the beginning of his career he has been actively engaged in promoting important enterprises, besides laboring for the welfare of his community in other lines of endeavor, the meantime securing for himself the comforts of life and home and an ample competence for his declining years.

Mr. Beasley is a native of the county where he has elected to remain, making it the field of his life work, having been born in Stockton township, June 2, 1854, a son of Alexander Beasley, a hardy Tennessean who came to Indiana when a young man, first casting his fortune with the Hoosiers in Lawrence county, then removing to Stockton township, Greene county. The elder Beasley was a prosperous farmer, which occupation he industriously pursued up to the time of his death in 1890. The mother of our subject was Frances (Nimrod) Beasley, a native of North Carolina. Although twelve children, an equal number of boys and girls constituted the Beasley family, ten of whom are now living, in 1908, these children received the best home training and careful discipline possible, their home environment having always been wholesome and uplifting, which fact has largely attributed to the praiseworthy moulding of their subsequent characters. The subject's devoted and estimable mother was called from her earthly labors in Stockton township, in 1884. The Beasley family is regarded as constituting one of the most substantial and best known in Greene county, and it forms a conspicuous part in the history of various communities.

The subject of this sketch was united in marriage with Rebecca Moss, the refined and accomplished daughter of William G. Moss, of Stockton township, the wedding occurring August 14, 1873. Two children born to this union, after cheering the home circle for a brief time, were taken from it by the hand of death early in life.

The boyhood life of our subject was not, generically considered, unlike in the main, from that of other young men of his community, for he attended the neighborhood schools and worked about his father's farm as necessity demanded, ever evincing a willingness to perform his share of the tasks assigned to him, but he was a good student and an industrious and promising boy from the start, and took up active farm work early in life and for a period of thirty happy and eminently successful years lived on the same farm in Stockton township. His farm was always a model in point of systematic management and up-to-date improvement, and much fine stock of various kinds was to be found in its fields.

In 1902 Mr. Beasley moved to Linton where he soon became one of the leading business men, having trafficked in real estate principally, but after four successful years the love of rural life called him back to its free and independent domains and he moved to the beautiful suburban home which he now occupies and which is one of the most pleasantly situated and most admirably kept of any like residence in the county. It stands just east of the city beside a natural and most attractive park, known as "Beasley's Park," which is frequently used by the public, in fact the city uses it for all its large public events. He is also the owner of many substantial business houses and much residence property in Linton, which places him among the prosperous and influential citizens of that community, where he is admired and respected by all for his integrity and well ordered life.

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"Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days", B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1908, pages 993-995.

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