Biographical Sketch of Theodore BEAUMONT (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris <jMcDmorris@comcast.net>. Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 571-2. "THEODORE BEAUMONT, a successful contractor and business man of Devon, is a descendant of Peregrine White, the first English child born in New England. He is a son of Eber and Margaret (White) Beaumont, and was born in Newtown township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1848. He was reared on the farm, received his education in the common schools, and was then engaged in farming with his father until 1889, when he formed a co-partner- ship with his brother Rush, in road building, quarrying and crushing stone for roads and building purposes. They own a valuable tract of land at Devon, in Easttown township, on the Pennsylvania railroad, a part of which has been surveyed in lots in a neighborhood which is being rapidly taken by Philadelphians, who build fine summer residences. Mr. Beaumont has an extensive stone crushing plant at Valley Creek, near Downingtown, where he employs fifty men, and crushes a large amount of stone which is used for railroad ballast. He employs first class machinery, turns out an excellent article of crushed stone, and keeps his plant running to its full capacity in order to fill the orders which he is constantly receiving. Mr. Beaumont is a republican in politics, and a member of the Baptist church. He is energetic, active and prompt as a business man, and well respected as a citizen. In his present enterprise he has met with good success. "On May 20, 1870, Mr. Beaumont married Mary E. Supplee, daughter of Zimmerman Supplee, of Easttown township. To their union have been born two children: Margaret and Rhinewalt. "The Beaumont family is of French Huguenot origin, and some of its members settled at an early day in the southern part of Chester county, in what is now Delaware county, where Thomas Beaumont, the paternal grandfather of Theodore Beaumont, was born and reared, near the Brandywine battle ground. He was at school on the day when the battle of Brandywine was fought, and the Americans took possession of the school house, which they converted into a hospital for a part of their wounded that were removed from the fight at Chad's Ford. "Thomas Beaumont was a farmer, and married Ruth Patterson. They had eight children: Eber, dead; Thomas, of near Milltown; Mifflin, who died in Mary- land; Jabez, who died some years ago; Emmor, now dead; Eliza, who died young; Hannah and Esther, who are now both dead. "Eber Beaumont (father) was born September 9, 1809, in Delaware county, where he remained until 1850, when he removed to Easttown township, where he died December 18, 1878. In that township he purchased fifteen acres of land on the old Lancaster pike. On this land was one of those old famous hostelries or inns of that day. This inn was known as the 'Stage Tavern,' and Mr. Beaumont kept it as an inn but a short time until the railroads took the traffic and travel from the pikes. He added to his fifteen acres by successive purchases until he had a farm of one hundred and twenty acres of land. He was a republican in politics, and in religious belief rather inclined to the faith of the Friends or Quakers. He married Margaret White, and to their union were born five children. Three died in infancy, leaving Theodore, the subject of this sketch, and Rush, now living on a part of the home farm. Rush married Martha A. Gamble, and has five children: Laura, Eber, Howard, Robert and Edith. Mrs. Margaret Beaumont (mother) is a daughter of Samuel White, a native of Chester county and a soldier of the war of 1812, who was a descendant of Peregrine White, the first English child born in New England."