Michael Beam

1782 - 1849  (66 years)

• Name	Michael Beam
  Born	7 Jun 1782	Lincoln\Cleveland Co., NC
  Gender	Male
  Died	1849	Tishomingo County, Mississippi
  Buried	Tishomingo County, Mississippi
  Notes	At the age of 32 years he rode on horseback to Cincinnati, Ohio; the country then being almost a wilderness. He drew a draft of a cotton factory and when he returned to his mother's on Buffalo Creek, he and Daniel Warlick commenced building a cotton factory and had it about completed when it was washed away by a freshet. They were not able at that time to rebuild. He invented a cotton planter and rode on horseback to Washington D.C. to obtain a patent for it. He went west and was selling his cotton planter with success when he was taken sick and died in 1849, Tishamingo County. He died single.
  Person ID	I5096	myfamilytree
  Last Modified	20 May 2022

  
  

  Father	John Teeter Beam,   b. 1732, Hamburg, Germany ,   d. 15 Nov 1807, Lincoln\Cleveland Co., NC  (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Rudolph,   b. 1756, Lincoln\Cleveland Co., NC ,   d. 7 Oct 1841, Lincoln\Cleveland Co., NC  (Age 85 years)
  Married	1781
  Family ID	F3458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Died - 1849 - Tishomingo County, Mississippi Buried - - Tishomingo County, Mississippi  = Link to Google Earth