Person:Levi Bean (1)

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Levi O. Bean
 
 
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Levi O. Bean
Gender Male
Residence[2] Bef 1833 Fayette County, Indiana
Residence[2] 1833 Lagro Township, Wabash, Indiana, United StatesSection 30, west of Belden
Marriage to Mary Morgan
Residence[2] Kingsley, Michigan

LEVI was the first white man to settle in North La Gro Township, Wabash County, Indiana, in circa 1833. In 1835, the year that Wabash County was created, Levi was elected to the first Board of County Commissioners.

Levi was an Indian trader, and a government land agent.

--White Creek 22:15, 28 October 2012 (EDT)

References
  1. Wabash County Historical Society (Indiana); Linda Robertson; and North Manchester Historical Society (Indiana). Wabash County history, bicentennial edition, 1976, Wabash, Indiana. (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Company, c1976).
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Metcalfe, Howard. Forty North: Lineages of Some Early Settlers Along the Fortieth Parallel. (Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen Publishing Co., 1997).