San Joaquin County Biographies
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SAMUEL C. BEANE
An experienced, progressive railroad man who is far more than a routine operator, is Samuel C. Beane, popular district freight and passenger agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Stockton. A native son and proud of his association with the Golden State, he was born in Tulare County, Cal., on February 26, 1869, the son of Samuel and Diana (Davies) Beane, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Ohio. Mr. Beane came to California by way of Panama in 1862, and he died in 1875. The mother crossed the plains to California in 1862, and she passed away in Sacramento in August, 1921.
Samuel C. Beane attended the public schools of Plymouth, in Amador County, and then he started to work in the quartz mill at the age of sixteen, having previously begun the study of telegraphy. He worked at odd jobs around the post office at Plymouth, while a boy, and at seventeen left home to go to Sacramento, where he worked for Weinstock & Lubin, receiving at first six dollars per week. Later, he was given a post with Messrs. Scott & Gilbert, the manufacturing chemists, at ten dollars per week.
Hearing that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company were paying operators sixty dollars per month, he entered the employ of that company on May 15, 1889, as night operator at Chico, and ever since that date he has been in the service of that great concern. He next became relief agent and operator at Chico, Woodland, Red Bluff, Reno, Ventura, San Jose and other cities, and for ten years he was associated with the freight department at San Jose, where he rose to the position of assistant chief clerk, and he was one year in the general offices of the company in San Francisco as rate clerk.
In August, 1902, he was transferred to Stockton as chief clerk, where he continued for a period of nine years. Then he was traveling and freight agent out of the district freight agent's office at Oakland, but made his residence in Stockton, and after four years he became commercial agent over the district between Florin and Tracy. On March 1, 1920, he was appointed district freight and passenger agent of the district from Florin on the north to Newman and Merced on the south and from Antioch on the west to the Southern Mines on the east. On May 15, 1921, he had been for thirty-two years in the continuous service of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
When on June 5th, 1894, Mr. Beane was married at Sutter Creek, he chose or his life-companion, Miss Lillie Frances Higgins, a native of Pennsylvania; and they have had two children, one of whom is married. Ruth A. has become the wife of J.E. Duffy, and they have one son, J.E., Jr.; Chester Beane is a clerk in the Commercial and Savings Bank of Stockton. Mr. Beane belongs to Charity Lodge No. 6, I.O.O.F., and to Stockton Lodge No. 218 B.P.O.E., and also to Stockton Lodge No. 319 of the Loyal Order of Moose and to Stockton Parlor No. 7, N.S.G.W. He is a charter member of the Stockton Rotary Club, and has been secretary of that influential organization since its formation in August, 1913.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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