from The History of Hendricks County (Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen & Co., 1914)----pages 580-581
A farmer of Hendricks County, Indiana, who has a true love for his occupation is William E. Beaman, who has not been content to farm exactly in the same manner as his ancestors, but has moved from the beaten path and tried to keep pace with all the modern scientific methods of agriculture. For this reason he has been more than ordinarily successful and can attribute his measure of success to the fact that he has combined brains with brawn, a combination which is sure to yield a gratifying result when properly pursued.
William Edgar Beaman, the son of Adam and Rebecca A. (McDaniel) Beaman, was born February 14, 1876, in Brown Township, Hendricks County, Indiana. His father was a native of Boone County, this state, and came to Hendricks County after his marriage, settling in Brown Township on an eighty-acre farm and her he lived the life of farmer, dying on March 15, 1909. He was a man who loved a simple, plain and unostentatious life and was capable of an enormous amount of hard work. When he was a young man he had a great reputation as an athlete. In the days when wrestling was in vogue, there was not a young man in the neighborhood who could lay him flat on his back. His wife was a native of this county, and was born near Brownsburg, in April, 1844, and she is still living at Pittsboro, this county. To Mr. and Mrs. Adam Beaman were born seven children: Charles S., Willard E., Otis (deceased), Albert Wesley (whose history is given elsewhere in this volume), William Edgar, Ada V. (who died in infancy), and George B. (deceased).
William Edgar Beaman received a good, practical education in his township school and almost completed high school. He remained at home until his marriage, assisting his father on the home farm, taking part in clearing land and learning by experience. He then began farming north of Pittsboro, where he remained nine years. In 1907 he bought his present farm of eighty acres, on which he conducts a general system of farming.
Mr. Beaman was married October 9, 1898, to Julia Hufford, the daughter of Gideon Franklin and Mary Jane (Stout) Hufford. Gideon Hufford was a native of Hendricks County, his birth having occurred in Washington Township, and he spent his life in the pursuit of agriculture, and died in 1903 at Tilden, Indiana. Mrs. Hufford was a native of Marion County, this state, and is still living in this county, near Tilden, on the old homestead farm. Mr. and Mrs. Hufford were the parents of nine children: George F., deceased; Delilah, who died when young; Mrs. Carrie Garner; Theodore Newton, deceased; Joel V.; Mrs. Ella Garner; Julia, the wife of Mr. Beaman; Edgar and John T. Mr. and Mrs. Beaman have four children, Doris M., Wilford Lawrence, Frances Isabel and Edgar.
Fraternally, Mr. Beaman is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Pittsboro, and politically, holds his affiliation with the Democratic Party. He is a liberal and broad-minded farmer, who makes a deep study of farming as a practical profession, is of a decided mechanical turn of mind, and believes in the strict honest of all men and is quick to resent any unfairness to himself or to any of his fellow citizens. He is strictly honest himself and believes in the Golden Rule in every-day life.