Photos

On September 8th,2020 a good portion of the town of Talent burned to the ground including Jan Wright’s house. Four boxes of Beeson memorbilia and files were lost including many of these original photographs and documents. Jan is very grateful for having posted these to save for the future.

Table Rock c1942
Table Rocks close to the Indian reserve in the Rogue Valley.
Marriage record John Beeson and Ann Welborn
Marriage record of John Beeson to Ann Welborn in Woolsthorpe, England 1827
Beeson genealogy chart
Handwritten genealogy from Henry Beeson of England to Welborn Beeson in Oregon 1857
Drawing of John Beeson included in The Calument magazine.
Water Cure Institute at 15 Laight St. in New York where Beeson lived for some time.
Connecticut home of John D. Joyce, an occasional refuge for John Beeson
Kate and Welborn Beeson
Mary Catherine “Kate” Brophy married Welborn Beeson in 1866
1887 Welborn Beeson Family Photo
L to R Welborn, Kate with Winnifred in her lap, Welborn Jr, John D. (front), Jessie, Frances, Anna (in rocking chair) and Emmett Beeson on the porch of the Hexagonal House in Talent, OR
Farnham wrote at least one letter to Mrs. Beeson in Oregon informing her of the illness of John Beeson. Farnham was a spiritualist and reformer.
Lundy was a radical editor of the Genuis of Liberty Abolitionist newspaper whom Beeson associated with in Illinois
Wendell Phillips by Mathew Brady. Phillips partnered with Beeson on occasion and contributed funds for the Indian cause.