BIO: Fred N. BEEGLE, Beaver County, PA
    
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    BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES. This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of 
    Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Buffalo, N.Y., 
    Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 13-14.
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    FRED N. BEEGLE, secretary and treasurer of the Union Drawn Steel Co., of
  Beaver Falls, Pa., is a thorough business man and understands all the details
  of the steel business. Largely through his energy, the business has increased
  to its present volume. The firm now enjoys a splendid foreign, as well as a
  large domestic, trade. The subject of this sketch was born at Millersburg,
  Ohio, May 21, 1863, and received his scholastic training in the public
  schools of his native town, taking a finishing course at the High School of
  North Manchester, Indiana. At the age of sixteen, he began life for himself,
  and in April, 1880, located in Beaver Falls, where he was clerk in a grocery
  store for a few months, subsequently entering the employ of the Western Union
  File Works, of the same place. Tie remained with the latter company about five
  months, as "tester" of files, and then began business on his own account.
  Opening a wholesale and retail produce business, he continued that very
  successfully for a couple of years, then sold out to excellent advantage, and
  spent the following year traveling in the West. Returning to Beaver Fails, Mr.
  Beegle became manager of a grocery store for B. B. Todd for about two and a
  half years. He then accepted a position as order clerk for the Hartman Steel
  Co. of the same place; during his three years' service with that company he
  worked himself up to the position of assistant chief clerk.
    
    At the close of that time, the Hartman plant was purchased by Carnegie,
  Fipps & Company, and Mr. Beegle became chief shipping clerk. One year later
  he was transferred to their Thirty-third street mill in Pittsburg. This
  change, however, did not prove a satisfactory one to Mr. Beegle, and he
  resigned after a few months' service. Very soon afterwards, on November 16,
  1899, he entered the employ of the Union Drawn Steel Co., of Beaver Falls, as
  assistant superintendent. About one year later the company was re-organized,
  and Mr. Beegle became a stockholder, being also elected secretary and
  treasurer of the concern. When our subject first became associated with the
  company, the capacity of the plant was only 2,000 tons per year, of cold
  drawn steel., Under Mr. Beegle's able management of the business end the
  output has constantly increased, and every second year a new building has
  been added and the capacity of the plant at the present time is 30,000 tons
  annually.
    
    In 1880, Mr. Beegle was united in marriage with Nellie Heath, a daughter of
  Rev. Mr. Heath, of Oberlin, Ohio. They have one son, Clifford, in whom all
  their hopes are centered. In his political views, the subject of this record
  is a Republican, and takes great interest in party successes, but is too busy
  a man to take an active part in politics or to have political aspirations. He
  is a son of
    
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  Benjamin and Lucinda (Corns) Beegle.
    
    Benjamin Beegle was born in Bedford county, Pa., and was a cabinet maker by
  trade. He went to Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, in 1846, and lived there
  the remainder of his days. His death occurred in 1882, at the age of
  seventy-two years. Lucinda Corns, a charming lady and a native of Lancaster
  county, Pa., became his wife, but laid down the burden of life at the early
  age of thirty-six. She left the following children to mourn her demise:
  Benjamin F.; Joseph; Thomas (deceased); Rollin A.; John; Edward; Lucy M.
  (Brady), deceased; and Fred N., the subject of this brief sketch. The elder
  Mr. Beegle was a firm believer in the Jacksonian principles of Democracy. He
  was a true gentleman, intelligent, courteous, and refined, just the kind of a
  man to make a lasting impression of good on all societies, which were
  fortunate enough to number him among their members. He favored the Lutheran
  church.
    
    Fred N. Beegle is a live, enterprising business man, and merits the success
  which he is meeting in all his endeavors. He is an honest and straightforward
  citizen and has made many friends both in private and commercial life.