6th child and youngest child and son of Havilah and Rachel (Calhoun) Beardsley. Prior to the Civil War, he laid out the Beardsley Addition (real estate development) in Elkhart IN. When the Civil War broke out, he served honorably in the US Navy, participating in the captures of New Orleans LA and Vicksburg MS. For his service, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the US Consul in Jerusalem prior to the end of the war. He married Isabella Gowan, date and location unknown. There were three children born to this union: Isabella S.R. Beardsley (born 9 October 1869), Charles Clayton Beardsley (born 1870),and Frederick Beardsley (born 1874). In 1870, he was promoted to Consul General for the US to Cairo, where he died in January 1876 as a result of suffocation from a hemorrhage.
6th child and youngest child and son of Havilah and Rachel (Calhoun) Beardsley. Prior to the Civil War, he laid out the Beardsley Addition (real estate development) in Elkhart IN. When the Civil War broke out, he served honorably in the US Navy, participating in the captures of New Orleans LA and Vicksburg MS. For his service, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the US Consul in Jerusalem prior to the end of the war. He married Isabella Gowan, date and location unknown. There were three children born to this union: Isabella S.R. Beardsley (born 9 October 1869), Charles Clayton Beardsley (born 1870),and Frederick Beardsley (born 1874). In 1870, he was promoted to Consul General for the US to Cairo, where he died in January 1876 as a result of suffocation from a hemorrhage.
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