Bean, John

Bean, John a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Stratford, Vt., Sept. 23, 1817. He was converted at fourteen; removed to Illinois; commenced his itinerant life in Wisconsin in 1845; labored until he could do so no longer; retired in 1870; and died of apoplexy, near Baraboo, Wis. where he resided, May 1, 1880. He was an excellent revivalist, and preached with spiritual power; hundreds were converted under his ministry. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1880, p. 240.