"Freeman F. Bean was born Sept. 26th, 1815. He went to Keene, N.H., when about twenty, to work in a shop. Lived there and at Hinsdale until March 17th, 1837, when he married Miss Adeline G. Howard of Winchester, N. H. and went to South Deerfield, living there some two years. He then moved to Brattleboro, Vt., where he studied medicine. Here their oldest child was born, named Louise Jane. Her birth was Sept. 2nd, 1839, and her death in eleven months from this date. The fall of 1840 they moved to Glover, bringing their household goods in wagons. Lived at West Glover, practicing medicine, shoemaking and farming, for four years. July 16th, 1841, Louise Arvilla was born, who now resides in Boston. In the spring of 1844, he decided that farming was the vocation he wished to follow, and bought 60 acres of land covered with timber, and cleared enough for a building spot, erected a house and barn, and lived there eight years, clearing land and making other improvements. Here their youngest child was born, Cynthia Ann, who is now Mrs. Alson Clark. In the autumn of '52 he bought a farm still farther west, with but little cleared land, and no road within half a mile. He built a set of building and kept adding to the acres of his farm, until he had 270, 160 in Glover and the rest in Albany. In 1857 he went to California, staying two and a half years. In 1862 lie enlisted in the army and went as 1st Lieutenant in Co. I, 15th Reg't, but was obliged to resign on account of ill health. On coming home, he sold a portion of his farm, put up another set of buildings, this being the third set, all now standing, except the barn of the first set. In 1881 he sold his place, and after living some time with his youngest daughter, purchased a home at West Glover, near the side of the place he occupied 47 years ago. His religious preference is Methodist, of which he has been a liberal supporter for nearly 50 years." (Sketch on the Bean Family by Eliza M. (Bean) Dwinell, published in the Orleans County Monitor, 11 Apr 1887)