John Jacob Beacher ^{1 2 3 4}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Wastehouse Run Dam for twenty years. ³

• Census, 1900, Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁵ In the 1900 Census in Mahanoy Township (and indexed incorrectly in the census as William Beesher) is William Beecher, age 63, born Aug 1846, day laborer. He is living with wife Priscilla, 47, born Jan 1853. She was married to him for 17 years, had born 10 children, 8 still alive in 1900 (some by her first marriage). With them are son Nathan, July 1885, 14, day laborer; son John, July 1888, 11; son Alfred, Jan 1892, 8; daughter Laura, Aug 1894, 5. William is renting the home.

• School, 1900. ^{3 6} When William Beacher died, his children were eligible to be sent to schools for fatherless boys because he was a Civil War solider.

The children of William Beacher listed in the state report:

Beacher, John J., b. Nov. 17 1889, admitted to school Feb. 16 1901, School: I, Father: Dead, Mother: Living, Soldier: William Beacher, Rank: Pvt., Company: C 194th Pa., Application By: Pricilla Beacher, Shenandoah

Beacher, Alford, b. Jan. 21 1892, admitted to school Feb. 16 1901, School: CS, Father: Dead, Mother: Living, Soldier: William Beacher, Rank: Pvt., Company: C 194th Pa., Application by: Pricilla Beacher, Shenandoah

Beacher, Laura, b. Sep. 23 1894, Admitted to school: Nov. 16 1903, School: CS, Father: Dead, Mother: Dead, Soldier: William Beacher Pvt. C 194th Pa., Application by: Wm. H. Derrick, Shenandoah

The schools were:
I = S. O. Industrial School in Scotland, Franklin County, PA
CS = Chester Springs School in Chester County, PA.

• Letter: from Mae C. Beacher to Bruce Beacher, 1978. ⁴ "I am the daughter of John J. Beacher. My grandfather was William Beacher. I also have a sister in Shenandoah. Her name is Anna Beacher Zagorski. She also has two children and eight grandchildren. My father died when I was six years old. He was only 29 when he died. My brother was three and my sister was eleven months. ... I had two uncles Nathan and Alfred also an aunt Laura Beacher Parsons. I can remember when I was very small, my father would take me to Beacher's candy store. I do not know how he was related to my father but I do remember his name was Benjamin Beacher."

John married Anna Sverha, daughter of George Sverha and Dora. (Anna Sverha was born in Jun 1893 in , , Pennsylvania, USA ⁷.)