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Emmet Beebe was the great-grandson of David Beebe, Sr., a pioneer settler of Ridgeville Township in Lorain County, Ohio. Emmet
was born in North Ridgeville in 1849 and spent his early life working on the family farm. In 1885 he married Mary Elizabeth
Bailus at Dover, Ohio. About 1887 they moved to a farm near Tustin, Michigan, where Emmet was also engaged in the lumbering
business. In the late 1920s the Beebes returned to North Ridgeville. The collection consists of diaries of Emmet and Mary
Beebe and Erma Beebe May, correspondence, genealogical materials, account books, business papers, school work, recipe books,
a tatting collection, clippings, and miscellaneous papers. Genealogical charts have been prepared and are found at the end
of the register as an appendix.
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