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BEEBE, SILAS (deceased), was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y., in 1808. His parents were Amos and Lois (Pier) Beebe. They emigrated to Pike county, Ill., in 1821, two years before the State was organized, and settled on the creek which now bears their name. They removed to Adams county in 1823 and settled in Fall Creek township on the farm where Mr. Beebe remained until his death, which occurred May 3, 1856. He first married Lucinda Dupee in 1831; she was a native of Kentucky. They had two children, Alber — late of the firm of Harris, Beebe & Co., of Quincy, proprietors of one of the largest tobacco manufactories in the United States — and Amanda, now the wife of William Bowles, residing on the old homestead in Fall Creek township. Mrs. Beebe died in 1836. Mr. Beebe married for his second wife Miss Eliza Hunsaker, by whom he had one child, Mary E., now Mrs. Dr. George Morris. Mr. Beebe was highly respected as a citizen of the county with which he became so early identified, and was noted for his industry, enterprise and hospitality. The old homestead on which he planted more than half a century ago is owned and occupied by his two daughters and their families.