Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Beans, Frederick T.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Lower Makefield Township


   FREDERICK T. BEANS farmer, Dolington P.O., was born on 
the farm he now owns and occupies, October 31, 1836, and is 
a son of Benjamin and Mary (Holcomb) Beans.  His paternal 
grandfather was Benjamin Beans and his maternal grandfather 
was Samuel Holcomb, a farmer of Upper Makefield.  Benjamin, 
father of Frederick, had four children:  Phebe A. (Mrs. 
Robert K. Burroughs), Sarah E. (Mrs. William S. Janney, M. 
D.), Frederick T. and Caroline, who died in 1859, aged 14 
years, 7 months and 18 days.  Frederick was reared on the 
farm and was educated in the common schools and Tremont 
seminary, at Norristown, Pa. He married Sarah J., daughter 
of J. Holcomb and Sarah A. (Longshore) Walker, of Solebury, 
by whom he has had six children:  Caroline L., Horace H., 
Eugene L., Mary L. and Anne E., and B. Franklin, the second 
child, who died at the age of 6 months, March 11, 1861.