Ulysses Grant "Grant" Biehn^[1]

1868 - 1944  (75 years)

• Name	Ulysses Grant "Grant" Biehn
  Born	20 Jun 1868	Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10713552
  Name	Grant Bean
  Residence	1880	Akron, Tuscola, Michigan, USA   [4]
  Eby ID Number	00008-980.8
  Died	15 Mar 1944	, Huron Co., Michigan, USA   [3]
  Buried	Grand Lawn Cemetery, Pigeon, Huron, Michigan, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I15446	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	David G. Biehn,   b. 11 Jun 1830, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 6 Sep 1879, Huron Co., Michigan  (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Anna Martha Truemner,   b. 27 Jul 1837, Gilseberg, Tryso, Hessen, Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F4160	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "There is a Grant Bean located in 1900 in Huron county, Windsor Tp., Which is probably Ulysses Grant Bean. If so, he was born in Aug, 1867 in Canada. His father was born in Canada and his mother was born in Germany. He was 32. He emigrated to the US in 1878, which would be one year before David Bean's reported death in 1879, and had been in the US for 22 years. Grant would have been age 10. He was a farmer. His wife, Emma, was born in June 1874 in Michigan, although her parents were both born in Germany. She was 25. the couple had been married for 6 years (circa 1894) and had produced 2 children, two surviving (Madeline, age 5 and Edith, age 3). 1900 Michigan Census, Huron County,Windsor Tp., E.D. 27, Sheet 17. They were still in this area in 1920, where Grant Bean was farming at the age of 42. On this census he reported that they had been married, both for the first time, for 14 years, which would then be 1896 and one year after Madeline Bean's birth. Emma was 36.She had produced three children, two surviving: Madeline, now age 14, and Roland, age 4. Edith was missing. However, on this census he reported that he emigrated to the US in 1869, which would make him age 2. 1910 Michigan census, Huron County, Windsor Tp., E.D. 29 Sheet 2A." Biehn-Bean Family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada 1700-1986, by Donald M. Biehn ___________________ BEAN, U. GRANT. His father was David Bean, who was born Nov. 12, 1830, in Wilmot Township,Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, and his mother was Anna Martha Truemner and born July 28, 1837, in Gilseberg, Tryso County, Kurhessen, Germany. The subject of this sketch was born in Huron County, Canada, June 20, 1868. They came to Michigan in 1878. Married Emma Dietzel . Her father was Traugott Dietzel, who was born in Saxenweimer, Germany, Nov. 22, 1834, and her mother was Ernestina Blacksmith, born in Welshendorf, Germany, Aug. 27, 1844. Children are: Martha Madeline, born April 6, 1893, and Edith Helen, born March 31, 1896. Mr. Bean's father died when he was 11 years old and he with his mother and five brothers moved to Winsor Township when it was nothing but a wilderness of green swampy land. After years of toil and hardship, such as early settlers only know, he has succeeded in clearing and paying for one of the best 80-acre farms in Winsor Township. Mr. Bean has five sisters and three brothers living and one brother who is dead. Biographical sketch of U. Grant Bean excerpted from 1905 "Plat book of Huron County, Michigan... with biographical sketches" by E. B. (Ernest B.) Foote, Phildelphia, Penn.: Imperial Publishing Co., 1904, pg 85

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 254. [S142] Census - Michigan - 1880, Akron, Tuscola, Michigan Pg 5A, film 1254607. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10713552/ulysses-grant-bean. [S1639] Census - U.S. Census Population Schedule, 1880 10th Census, Census Place: Akron, Tuscola, Michigan; Roll: 607; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 394. Anna N, 42, b. Kurhassen Susanna 19 b. Canada Lavina 17 Salome 15 William H. Ulyeses Grant 11

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 20 Jun 1868 - Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada Residence - 1880 - Akron, Tuscola, Michigan, USA Died - 15 Mar 1944 - , Huron Co., Michigan, USA Buried - - Grand Lawn Cemetery, Pigeon, Huron, Michigan, USA  = Link to Google Earth