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Notes for William Lincoln Beardsley

The following is a biography of W. L. Beardsley written by his son, Leroy L. Beardsley ca 1957.

William Lincoln Beardsley was born at Rock Island, Illinois on November 4, 1861. As a small boy, the family lived at Parker on the Verdigris River, a few miles below Coffeville, KS. Later, he spent some time at Cimmeron, New Mexico at a silver mine up the canyon and with a big sheep outfit on the plains near Springer, NM. Then it was back to Baxter Springs, KS and then to Siloam Springs, Arkansas where he was employed in the Hargraves General Store for several years. It was as a clerk there that he met and waited on Zeke Proctor, a famous indian from Oklahoma Territory. He also met his bride-to-be who moved to near Ottawa, KS. A short time later, he went to Ottawa, where he and Maggie Olive Miller were married. He was employed by the Santa Fe railroad as division store keeper and for about 20 years supplied the needs of the line from Topeka, KS to Amarillo, TX.

In 1897, he homesteaded a claim 12 miles south and 2 miles west of Alva in the Cherokee strip area of Oklahoma Territory. That claim was sold and he bought a ranch on the Eagle Chief, North of Waynoka; selling it in 1900 to Hank Boswell from Nebraska. He filed again in 1901 in Beaver County and moved there during March 1902.

Dennis Flynn's Free Homes law was passed giving a homesteader, who had proved up and paid the $1.25 per acre fee, the opportunity for another filing.
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