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William married a "girl next door" in 1848 . The Bean family farm, was sold to William Kennedy a few years later, William had probably already moved to his wife's family farm next door > the Thomas and Hannah Wayne Owen farm. See: https://ancestortracks.com/PhiSur_Norriton(Mont)_1857.jpg
Enlisted in Company C, Pennsylvania 34th Infantry Regiment on 03 Jun 1863. Mustered out on 24 Aug 1863. Two of his brothers were in 17th PA Cav., Edwin and Theodore W. Bean. Mustered out in the month after Gettysburg...
not found in https://www.pa-roots.com/pacw/reserves/5thres/5threscoc.html
Became a clerk in a dry goods store (as of age 58) (1880 census)
Buried in Montgomery cemetery w/other family members: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165233959/william-bean
~• married a <WAYNE> through the Owen line, as in Maj. Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne; his sister Hannah married an Owen... ~• IOW: siblings married siblings..
~• his brother-in-law, David Zell Mathys is also the brother-in-law of his "outcast'" brother Jesse Weber Bean, who fought for the Confederacy.
~• was perhaps a fancier of trotting races: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112252526/kenwood-driving-assn-jeff... The Philadelphia Inquirer
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