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FRANK BEAUMAN
Vol. 3, p. 1173
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Those familiar with the career of Senator BEAUMAN realize that he
has achieved distinctive success in business channels and that he has
wielded much influence in the directing and controlling of political
forces in the State of Oklahoma, in which Legislature he is the
present senator from the Seventeenth senatorial district; but few
know to how great a degree this advancement in the world has been due
to his own ability and well directed efforts, his course having
always been guided by that integrity of purpose that begets popular
approbation and esteem. In a business way he is engaged in the
manufacturing of ice, with a large and well equipped plant that is
one of the best in the southern part of the state, the same being
established at Waurika, the thriving metropolis of Jefferson County,
where the senator has maintained his residence during the entire
period of his identification with civic and business affairs in
Oklahoma.

Frank Beauman was born at Anna, Union County, Illinois, in the year
1872, and is the son of Dorick F. and Caroline (CORGAN) Beauman, the
former of whom was born in the state of Vermont, in 1827, and the
latter of whom was a daughter of a pioneer merchant of Dongola, Union
County, Illinois, and later a representative of the same line of
enterprise at Tunnell Hill, Johnson County, that state. Dorick F.
Beaumont was reared and educated in New England and as a young man he
numbered himself among the pioneers of Illinois in which state he
assisted in the construction of the Illinois Central Railroad, with
which he eventually was advanced to the position of superintendent.
He attained to the venerable age of eighty-one years, his death
having occurred in 1908 and his wife having passed to the life
eternal in 1889. They are survived by ten children, the subject of
this review having been the third in order of birth. Loui is a
resident engineer for the Southern Pacific Railway Company and
resides at Stockton, California; Guy is a prosperous farmer near
Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois; Mrs. Birdie DINWIDDIE resides at
Stockton, California; Mrs. Maude B. HALE is a widow and resides at
Bloomfield, Illinois, her husband having been a physician by
profession; Mrs. H. O. WILLIAMS resides at Centralia, Illinois, and
her husband is a specialist in the treatment of the diseases of the
eye and ear, besides being physician in charge of the Hailey
Infirmary at Centralia.

In the public schools of his native county Senator Beauman received
a rudimentary education, and he has never found it possible to pursue
high academic studies, though it may consistently be said that under
the preceptorship of that wisest of all head-masters, Experience, he
has acquired a liberal education, with concomitant broadness of
mental ken and with marked maturity of judgement. At the age of
sixteen years the senator went from Illinois to Texas, where he
became identified with construction operations on the line of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. Later he was similarly engaged
in the Republic of Mexico, for a period of three years, and in 1902
he established his residence at Lampasas, Texas, where he was engaged
in the manufacturing of ice for the long period of eleven years,
during six years of which time he served as police judge in the city.
It will thus be noted that his very experience from youth onward have
vitally conserved his progress along both intellectual and practical
lines.

In 1912 Senator Beauman disposed of his interest in the Lone Star
State and established a home at Waurika, Oklahoma, where he erected
and equipped a fine modern plant for the manufacturing of ice, the
establishment which he now owns and operates being one of the largest
in that section of the state and his enterprise and progressiveness
having enabled him to develop a large and substantial business, the
while he is known and honored as one of the most progressive and
public-spirited citizens of the city and county of his adoption.

In 1910, two years prior to his arrival in Oklahoma, Senator
Beauman, without premeditation or desire, was brought into prominence
in connection with political affairs in the State of Texas, where
Hon. O. B. COLQUITT chose him as the most eligible and resourceful
person to manage the Colquitt first gubernatorial campaign. Through
his marked circumspection and ability in directing this campaign
Senator Beauman gained a statewide reputation in political circles
and so definite was his influence that when Governor Colquitt became
a candidate for re-election, in 1912, he called Senator Beauman back
from Oklahoma to assist him in his campaign.

In 1914, after a residence of only two years in the state, Mr.
Beauman was elected to represent the Seventeenth District in the
Oklahoma Senate, and in his spirited and effective campaign in the
district he attained to such popular favor that he carried the town
and the county in which his opponent lived. He was elected by a most
gratifying majority, and in the Fifth Legislative Assembly he
accounted admirably for himself, to his constituency and the state.
He was made chairman of the Senate Committee on Municipal
Corporations and was assigned also to membership on the following
committees: Public Service Corporations, Fees and Salaries, Banks and
Banking, Public Buildings, Public Health, and Commerce and Labor.
These assignments in themselves indicate how distinctive was the
influence he wielded in the Upper House of the Legislature and how
strong his hold upon the confidence of his colleagues. Senator
Beauman interested himself specially in measures pertaining to public
highways and to those tending to bring about consistent economy in
the administration of all departments of the state government. He was
the author of a bill requiring all county officers either to
personally discharge all the duties of their respective offices or to
make requisition, under oath, to the county commissioners for the
assistance needed. The well defined convictions of Senator Beauman
concerning matters of economic and governmental policy brought him
into special prominence and favor in his constituent district, where
his staunch friends have already launched for him a campaign for the
office of lieutenant-governor of the state in 1918.

Senator Beauman and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and are popular factors in the
representative social activities of their home city, as well as those
of the capital city of the state. The ancient-craft Masonic
affiliation of the senator is with Waurika Lodge, No. 315, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons, and in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
he is affiliated with the Consistory, No. 1, at Guthrie, besides
being identified with India Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Oklahoma City, and with the camp of
the Woodmen of the World at Lampasas, Texas. He is an alert and loyal
member of the Waurika Chamber of Commerce and is actively and
influentially identified with the Oklahoma Ice Dealer's Association.

At Rexton, Texas, in 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Senator
Beauman to Miss Theresa MANESS, whose father drove from Mississippi
to Texas before the construction of the railway lines and became one
of the pioneer physicians and surgeons of Northern Texas. Senator and
Mrs. Beauman have one child, Avis, a winsome little daughter who was
born in 1906. Mrs. Beauman takes a great interest in club work,
having organized a ladies club in Waurika, and has been president of
same since it's organization; she is also interested in civic work,
as well as library work; she also organized a public library the
first year of her residence in Waurika, and has had personal charge
of same since its organization; takes a great interest in politics,
an in this way managed her husband's campaign for the state Senate.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Susan Bradford, November 19, 1998.