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About Howell Evans Bean
~• 60 year association with the company Young, Smyth, Field & Co. in the hosiery business where he was an executive (see obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)21 Jun 1938, TuePage 30
~• abandoned by his father shortly after the death of his mother. His father moved away to Tazwell Co., VA and remarried.
~• Howell was not entirely forgotten by his father. See Jesse's letter of 1895: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000031355875439
• Married three times and had offspring with the first two wives. Within another generation there were no remaining descendants alive. Hence, this line of Bean's was extinguished by the mid- 20th century.
• His third wife was his daughter-in-law's sister (!) • Howell was successful Philadelphia business man, in management in a large firm, often making visits in his spare time to "the Shore" of NJ where he engages in sporting activities. For some time he even was president of the The Sporting Club at Longport. He travelled to Europe with his 2nd wife shortly before her premature death. She die fromALS
• He was devoted to his Aunt Hannah, a spinster who tasked herself with his upbringing even though Howell's father was still alive.
- His given name, <Howell>, harkens back on his maternal grandmother's side to Thomas Howell, of Cooper's Creek , a Quaker immigrant in the Province of West Jersey.
- in an obscure coincidence, another family of that West Jersey Quaker settlement of Newton, was WIlliam Alnerson (aka William Albertson). The coincidence is that some 200 (+/-) years later Howell Bean's cousin and friend Theodore Lane Bean married an Albertson, Sarah Albertson Hunter.
- to examine the Howell immigrant story, see this project
- Howell Evans Bean's relationship to the Immigrant Howell is only through a <LEVERING> aunt, thereby honoring the American Revolution. Anthony Levering was a soldier in that conflict and his wife was born Sarah Howell. The Howell family once ran the ferry on the Delaware notable in Dec. 1776 when the Continental army was making its escape.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188558799/howell-evans-bean
Residence (Ashbourne) Rd, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery Co., PA
The residence was just west of Mill Road see: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1127/images/31617_...
- U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 for Howell Bean Pennsylvania Montgomery, 1897 on google maps we can see that the house seems to be similar today to what it looked like in 1897
- Occupation: Clerk, wholesale hosiery (note: his aunt, with whom he lived sold milliner when Howell was growing up)
- Occupation: 30 years in the hosiery business ; see " https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77301134/howell-bean-identified-w-y...
the 1900 Federal Census shows:
- James R. Bean Age 11 Birth Date : Jan 1889 Home Cheltenham, Montgomery Co Father's Name: Howell H. Bean
James R. is also known as Robbins Bean
- Lot #238 in old section of Lower Merion Baptist Church owned by H.E. Bean (Charles R. Barker records)
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Had a brother, Thomas, died at age one, buried in Evansburg PA
(father)Jesse then moved from PA to VA on or about 1863 w/o taking his remaining two sons (Howell was one) who were left with the Mathey family. These boys were lived with the Mathey family (an aunt) 'Howell, lived well into the 20th century HAVING DONATED family materials to the Montgomery County Hist. Soc. in Norristown. Photos are there.
Buried at the old Baptist Church near Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion, PA, is his mother Eliza who had dies at age 40 when Howell was small.
- Lot 80 Grave 5
- (part of) Accession No. 8089 (8/14/1929) Presented by Howell E. Bean (son) of (then) 305 Ashbourne Road, Elkins Park, PA.
The Historical Society of Montgomery County (PA)
includes: A daguerrotype (center) of Eliza Matheys; (left) of Howell E. Bean; and (right) of David M. Bean. (these are set as profile pictures on this site) (?) . {not now} have to find this again.. MMvB april 2021 also: a photo of Elizabeth's sister, Hannah Matheys, who seems to have died a spinster.
- the variant spellings of Mathey are Mattheys, Mathews & Mathys (etc)
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An early Matheys line, interestingly enough, is up in Cheltenham where a Bartholomew Matheys and others Matheys farmed in the 18th century. Looking later we still see Matheys there in the 1860s. Examine the map: https://ancestortracks.com/PhiSur_Cheltenham_Germantown(MontCo)_186... . Might this tie have led Hannah Matheys and her nephew Howell Bean to buy the house there at the end of the 1800’s? The Howell Evans Bean home is so near where the early Matheys' once farmed. I am thinking that his aunt Hannah influenced him to want to move up there. Perhaps Hannah's grandfather, William Mathys still had ties with Bartholomew?
period maps of Northern Linerties etc
https://www.philageohistory.org/geohistory/resources/phila-subdiv-g...
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Howell Evans Bean's Timeline
| 1848 |
November 21, 1848
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(modern Norristown), Jeffersonville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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| 1852 |
May 20, 1852
Age 40
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Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1876 |
September 7, 1876
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Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1878 |
January 6, 1878
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Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
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