BIO: JOSEPH BEETEM, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 243-244
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    JOSEPH BEETEM, who throughout the greater part of his active life was
  engaged in business in Carlisle, Cumberland county, was a native of
  Centerville (now Huntsdale), this county, born Dec. 16, 1830.
  His parents, Abraham and Elizabeth (Smith). Beetem, are more fully mentioned
  elsewhere.
    
    Mr. Beetem received all his education in his native place, attending school
  until he was fifteen. His father died when he was only two years old, leaving
  a family of eight children, the oldest but fourteen, who were quite naturally
  thrown early on their own resources. After leaving school Joseph commenced to
  learn the carpenter's trade with his brothers, Samuel, Jacob, George and
  Abraham, though the first named worked principally as a millwright. Prior to
  his marriage he followed his trade in the country around his native place,
  and later came to Carlisle, engaging in contracting and building in company
  with his brothers, going into business on his own account two years before he
  married. He continued in that line for a few years following his marriage, and
  he and his brother Abraham then went into the grain business, their grain
  house being on the site of the present home of Judge Biddle. They met with
  continued success in that enterprise, carrying it on until the death of
  Joseph Beetem, in 1894. Mr. Beetem was a man of marked business ability, as
  his career would indicate, and he was ever a public-spirited and valuable
  citizen, giving his influence toward every movement for the general welfare.
  But his disposition was quiet, and he was kind and charitable in his dealings
  with all, whether in business or in private life.
    
    Mr. Beetem was married in Carlisle, in 1869, to Miss Hetty Hemminger, who
  was born in South Middleton township, Cumberland county, daughter of John and
  Eliza Hemminger, and received her education in the district schools of that
  locality. She was a young woman when her parents removed to Carlisle. Mr. and
  Mrs. Beetem settled in
    
    244  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
    
  the home at No. 112 South West street, where she still resides, and two
  children came to their union:  Samuel Harvey is a business man of Omaha,
  Neb.; Frank H., who is engaged as a bank clerk in Carlisle, married Miss
  Sarah Kimmel, of Mechanicsburg, Pa. Mr. Beetem in religious connection was a
  member of the First Lutheran Church of Carlisle, in the work of which
  congregation he was quite active, holding office for many years. His
  political sympathy was always with the Democratic party.