Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2022 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Anoka County And the Towns of Champlin and Dayton In Hennepin County, Minnesota by Albert M. Goodrich pub. 1905 - Hennepin Publishing Co., Minneapolis page 186 MARTIN V. BEAN was born in Dexter, Maine, Jan. 14, 1831. He engaged in farming until 1855, when he came to Anoka and worked at lumbering until 1862. In that year he enlisted in Co. A, Eighth Minnesota Regiment, serving as first sergeant and afterward as second lieutenant of that company until the close of the war. In 1872 he formed a partnership with C. S. GUDERIAN and engaged in the hardware business. Some years later he purchased Mr. GUDERIAN'S interest, and has now associated with him his son, W. M. BEAN. M. V. BEAN was mar- ried in 1862 to LOUISA McFARLAN. Their daughter, Miss EDNA BEAN, is engaged in newspaper work, principally for Chicago papers. ==========================================================================