Santa Clara County
Biographies
FRANK PHILO BEVERLY
The standing of Frank Philo Beverly in the community around Mountainview is indicated by his position as justice of the peace almost continuously for sixteen years, by his association with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for many years, his representation of his lodge at the Grand Lodge, and by the esteem in which he is held by his liberal minded and progressive neighbors. He is the owner of a ten acre orchard under apricots and peaches. A visitor might find many valuable suggestions while visiting this property, for thoroughness and thrift and practicability are evidenced in its every department, and are responsible for the success of the self-made owner and manager.
Mr. Beverly started out on his own responsibility with better educational preparation than the majority of farm-reared youths, having had the advantages of the public schools, of Santa Clara College, and of Gates Academy and Institute of San Jose. His entire forty-nine years of life have been spent in the county he now lives in, for he was born in old Mountainview January 13, 1855, and is the only son and youngest child in a family of seven. His parents, Philo Lewis and Ruth Mayo (Higgins) Beverly, came from far-off Maine in 1852, after the long water journey around the Horn in the clipper ship Peerless, locating in San Francisco, where Mr. Beverly died in 1854, ere he had realized even a tithe of his expectations. He was a clergyman in the Unitarian Church, and looked forward to years of practical work as a Christian minister and humanitarian. His high sense of duty and fine regard for the rights of others is shared by his son, whose many fine traits of character render him one of the ablest as well as most influential members of the agricultural fraternity of Mountainview. Mr. Beverly married Carrie R. Hartwick, a native of New Jersey, and of this union one son and three daughters have been born, the order of their birth being as follows: Howard Franklin, Mabel Adelaide, Gladys May, and Eunice Anna. The Beverly household is a harmonious and hospitable one, pervaded by an air of culture and refinement, and noted for its simplicity and good cheer.
Transcribed
Joyce Rugeroni.
ญญญญSource: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Page 458. The Chapman Publishing
Co., Chicago, 1904.
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