Hiram Beecher ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   Other names for Hiram were Hyle Beacher, Hiram Becher and Hirman Beecher.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1850, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁸ In 1850 living in the South Ward of Pottsville is Jacob Bieger. Obviously the census taker was confused by his German pronounciation of his surname! Jacob Bieger, tailer, age 36, is living with wife Angeline, 35; William, 12; Jacob, 11; Hiram, 8; Benjamin, 6; George, 3; and Nathan, 8 months old when the census was recorded on 29 Aug 1850. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

• Census, 1860, New Castle Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. ¹¹ In 1860 living in the New Castle Township is Jacob Bucher, day laborer, age 48, living with wife Angeline, 45; William, day laborer, 21; Jacob, day laborer, 19; Hiram, day laborer, 17; B. Franklin, day laborer, 15; George, 12; and Nathan, 9; and Ann M., 7. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office is Broad Mountain.

• Census, 1870, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. ¹² Angelina Becker [sic], 55, is listed as the head of the household. Living with her: William, 31; Heiram [sic], 28; Benjamin, 26; George, 24; Nathan, 20; and Mary, 18. The men are all employed as miners. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office is Shenandosh.
[Note: the family shows up twice in the 1870 census in both Shenandoah and Broad Mountain in New Castle Township. Some members are in both locations, so the family either had two homes operating, or, moved in 1870 and happened to be counted in each location.]

• Census, 1880, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁶ Hiram Becher, coal miner, 38, was married to wife Henrietta, 31. Living with them: Lilly May, 12; Sarah Jane, 10; Edith, 7; and Willie, 5. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

• Census, 1900, Mount Carmel Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA. ¹ Hiram Beecher (age 57, born Jul 1843) is listed in the 1900 Census as a household head living on the west side of Oak Street in Mount Carmel Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. His wife is listed as Etta (51, born Sep 1848). Living with them is son Wilhelm J. (24, born May, 1876). Both father and son are employed as coal miners. Henrietta is listed as having given birth to 4 children, all of whom were living in 1900. Living in the same building as a boarder is Sadie Beecher, his daughter, born Feb 1874 and single, occupation servant.

• Occupation: miner and was mentioned in a report on mine accidents, 5 Jun 1908, , Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA. 5- June Beecher, Hiram- English, Miner, 64, M, Reliance, Eyesight destroyed. He was pushing a cartridge of powder into a hole with an iron drill, when it exploded.

• Census, 1910, Tulare, Tulare County, California, USA. ¹³ Renting at 373 King St: William J. Beecher, 33, was married for 9 years to wife Emma, 26. She had given birth to 11 children, 6 alive in 1910. Living with them: Anne, 7; Willie, 6; Arthur, 5; May, 3; John, 2; and William's father, Hiram, 68, widowed. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania. No one had an occupation.

• Census, 1920, Visalia, Tulare County, California, USA. ¹⁴ Hiram Beecher, age 76, widowed, is living in his daughter's household in the 1920 Census in Visalia Township, Tulare County, CA. The daughter, Edith, age 46, is married to Lewis Hilbert, 48. Living with them is son Lewis, 16; John S. 14; Elsia, 12; Nellie, 9; James, 8; Marg, 2 months. James and Marg were born in California, and everyone else in Pennsylvania.

• Book: History of the Beacher Family, 1970. ¹⁰ The following narrative was typewritten in 1970 by Hazel Horrox Miller, niece of Hiram Beecher: "Sarah Jane or Sallie Beacher [daughter of Benjamin F. Beacher Sr.] never married and lived with B.F. Beacher Sr.'s brother Hiram or Hyle Beacher most of her life in Mt. Carmel. Hyle or Hiram was married and in the 1930's Hyle and his 4 children - Lillian, Sadie, William and Edith, their husbands & children and Ma's sister Sallie all went to Fresno, Cal. They wrote to Ma [Emma Margaret Beacher, daughter of B.F. Sr.] for awhile but nothing has been heard from them in late years."

[Correction by Jonathan Beacher: From birth and census data we know Hiram went to California in 1909, not in the 1930's as Hazel states.]

Hiram married Henrietta Jacobs, daughter of William J. Jacobs and Mary Hood, in 1867 in , , Pennsylvania, USA.¹ (Henrietta Jacobs was born in Sep 1848 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA,^{1 6 7 15} died before 1910 and was buried in Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA.)