Biography

08/03/1830 - 06/03/1889

BEANS, Silas H., a Representative from Bucks County; born, August 3, 1830 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pa.; farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1854 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1855 term; merchant (1858-1861; 1873-1876); appointed, assessor, Internal Revenue (1866-1867); elected, recorder of deeds, Bucks County (1875-1878); superintendent, Buckingham Creamery (1880); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Mechanicsville (1886-1887); died, June 3, 1889 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Doylestown Cemetery, Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania