San Joaquin County Biographies


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SAMUEL C. BEANE.
 
        An experienced, progressive railroad man who is far more than a routine 
operator, is Samuel C. Beane, popular district freight and passenger agent of 
the Southern Pacific Railroad at Stockton. A native son and proud of his 
association with the Golden State, he was born in Tulare County, Cal., on 
February 26, 1869, the son of Samuel and Diana (Davies) Beane, the former a 
native of New Hampshire and the latter of Ohio. Mr. Beane came to California by 
way of Panama in 1862, and he died in 1875. The mother crossed the plains to 
California in 1862, and she passed away in Sacramento in August, 1921.
        Samuel C. Beane attended the public schools of Plymouth, in Amador 
County, and then he started to work in the quartz mill at the age of sixteen, 
having previously begun the study of telegraphy. He worked at odd jobs around 
the post office at Plymouth, while a boy, and at seventeen left home to go to 
Sacramento, where he worked for Weinstock & Lubin, receiving at first six 
dollars per week. Later, he was given a post with Messrs. Scott & Gilbert, the 
manufacturing chemists, at ten dollars per week.
        Hearing that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company were paying operators 
sixty dollars per month, he entered the employ of that company on May 15, 1889, 
as night operator at Chico, and ever since that date he has been in the service 
of that great concern. He next became relief agent and operator at Chico, 
Woodland, Red Bluff, Reno, Ventura, San Jose and other cities, and for ten years 
he was associated with the freight department at San Jose, where he rose to the 
position of assistant chief clerk, and he was one year in the general offices of 
the company in San Francisco as rate clerk.
        In August, 1902, he was transferred to Stockton as chief clerk, where he 
continued for a period of nine years. Then he was traveling and freight agent 
out of the district freight agent's office at Oakland, but made his residence in 
Stockton, and after four years he became commercial agent over the district 
between Florin and Tracy. On March 1, 1920, he was appointed district freight 
and passenger agent of the district from Florin on the north to Newman and 
Merced on the south and from Antioch on the west to the Southern Mines on the 
east. On May 15, 1921, he had been for thirty-two years in the continuous 
service of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
        When on June 5th, 1894, Mr. Beane was married at Sutter Creek, he chose 
for his life-companion, Miss Lillie Frances Higgins, a native of Pennsylvania; 
and they have had two children, one of whom is married. Ruth A. has become the 
wife of J. E. Duffy, and they have one son, J. E., Jr.; Chester Beane is a clerk 
in the Commercial and Savings Bank of Stockton. Mr. Beane belongs to Charity 
Lodge No. 6, I. O. O. F., and to Stockton Lodge No. 218 B. P. O. E., and also to 
Stockton Lodge No. 319 of the Loyal Order of Moose and to Stockton Parlor No. 7, 
N. S. G. W. He is a charter member of the Stockton Rotary Club, and has been 
secretary of that influential organization since its formation in August, 1913.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1264       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.