James A. Beamer, only child of Michael and Susan (Ludwick) Beamer, was born July 10, 1855. He was educated in the public schools, and at the age of sixteen years entered the employ of Hartipee & Company, Pittsburg, to learn the trade of machinist. He then went to Altoona and for four years worked in the locomotive shop of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as an apprentice, after which he was appointed to the position of fireman on the Pennsylvania Railroad for a short time, and then was advanced to the position of roundhouse foreman at Everson, Pennsylvania. He was then transferred to Derry, and later to Altoona, still in the same capacity. He was advanced to the position of master mechanic in 1896, and was stationed at Tyrone, where he is at present (1906). He is progressive and enterprising, and while in Altoona served as water commissioner. He is a member of all the different Masonic bodies in Altoona, and of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Valley of Pittsburg. He is a member of the Reformed church. He married Sarah Lauffer, and has two children: Margaret and Blanche.
(Source: History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Volume ll, Chapter 2, Part 11, by John N. Boucher, New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906, Pages 402, 403, 404.
(Source: History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Volume ll, Chapter 2, Part 11, by John N. Boucher, New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906, Pages 402, 403, 404.
James A. Beamer, only child of Michael and Susan (Ludwick) Beamer, was born July 10, 1855. He was educated in the public schools, and at the age of sixteen years entered the employ of Hartipee & Company, Pittsburg, to learn the trade of machinist. He then went to Altoona and for four years worked in the locomotive shop of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as an apprentice, after which he was appointed to the position of fireman on the Pennsylvania Railroad for a short time, and then was advanced to the position of roundhouse foreman at Everson, Pennsylvania. He was then transferred to Derry, and later to Altoona, still in the same capacity. He was advanced to the position of master mechanic in 1896, and was stationed at Tyrone, where he is at present (1906). He is progressive and enterprising, and while in Altoona served as water commissioner. He is a member of all the different Masonic bodies in Altoona, and of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Valley of Pittsburg. He is a member of the Reformed church. He married Sarah Lauffer, and has two children: Margaret and Blanche.
(Source: History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Volume ll, Chapter 2, Part 11, by John N. Boucher, New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906, Pages 402, 403, 404.
(Source: History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Volume ll, Chapter 2, Part 11, by John N. Boucher, New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906, Pages 402, 403, 404.
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