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• Census: 1920, Dubuque, Iowa
• Census: 1930, Dubuque, Iowa
• Census: 1940, Dubuque, Iowa

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• Census: 1870, Dubuque, Iowa
• Graduation: 1889, MIT, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Dubuque, Iowa
• Census: 1920, Dubuque, Iowa
• Census: 1930, Dubuque, Iowa
• Census: 1940, Dubuque, Iowa

Notes:

He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1889 and joined his father’s firm of James Beach & Sons in the manufacture of soap.

Edward married Helen MacDuffee JUNKINS on 6 Apr 1909 in Stanford University, Stanford, Santa Clara, California. Helen (daughter of George Selby JUNKINS and Josephine Mary McDUFFEE) was born on 10 Jun 1877 in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts; died in 1963; was buried in Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1880, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1900, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Dubuque, Iowa
• Census: 1920, Dubuque, Iowa
• Census: 1930, Dubuque, Iowa
• Census: 1940, Dubuque, Iowa

Notes:

Helen graduated from Boston University Medical School (1903). She resided in Dubuque, Iowa in 1935 and furnished information on the family including a number of letters received by her mother in the early 1900’s.

Notes:

New England Medical Gazette, 1909
Dr. Helen M. Junkins, class of 1903, BUSM, is, to be married at Stanford University, California, on April 6th. to Mr. Edward James Beach, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. and Mrs. Beach will make their home at 1182 Locust Street, Dubuque, Iowa. The editor has receive with pleasure the annoucement of the marriage of Dr. Helen MacDuffee Junkins, B.U.S.M., ’03, to Mr. Edward James Beach in California, and etends to them his most sincere congratulations.

Source:
Family genealogy of Richard Beach as researched by Eugene H. Beach, Jr.

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• Census: 1870, Dubuque, Iowa
• Census: 1910, Dubuque, Iowa

Notes:

James joined his father in the manufacture of soap at Lawrence, Massachusetts, but at age 21 headed west to Chicago, and Aurora, Illinois, before finally settling in Dubuque, Iowa in 1856 were he purchased a half interest in a small soap factory. He later bought out his partners and expanded the business, with plants in St. Paul and St. Anthony, Minnesota.

Soapmaking had an interesting Dubuque run before being washed up
by Len Kruse

Beach family: Family does a good job of cleaning up
No one really knows when man first learned to make soap, but before people knew about it, they cleaned themselves with olive oil, plant ashes, bran and sand.In Colonial America, much of the soapmaking was done in the home. Housewives saved their fats and greases from cooking, put them in a large pot and boiled them with a lye made from wood ashes. The result was a useful, but strong, yellow soap. Dubuque’s first soap and candle factory was constructed in 1850 in a small wooden building located at South Locust and Dodge streets, called the F.M. Pleins & Company. In 1856, James Beach, of Dover, N.H., the son of a soap manufacturer, joined the firm by purchasing the interest of James P. Farley. Beach was just 21 years old.
 The candle product was dropped and the company’s name was changed to Pleins & Beach Soap Factory. Pleins sold out to Beach a year later. Twelve years after that, Beach’s eldest son, Edward, joined the company and the name became James Beach & Son.
 Young Beach had graduated from a chemical course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor of arts degree and had a good knowledge of the soapmaking business. To supply the ever-increasing demand for washing and toilet soaps, the company in 1891 built a large three-story brick building on the site and doubled its capacity. Business was very good, and 40 men were employed.Beach’s second son, Jim, came into the firm and the company’s name changed to James Beach & Sons.

 The demand for soap oils increased the use of many new agricultural products. Soap makers used coconut oil, sesame oil and soybean oil.In 1906, machinery was installed for the manufacture of a new product, soap powder. This was the first soap powder mill in the state. The company advertised heavily and presented samples of the new product to Dubuque housewives in order to familiarize them with it.
 Eight million pounds of soap was turned out annually. Six huge kettles were used for cooking the soap, where it was steamed and boiled for six days.Various oils from Ceylon and corn oil were used to scent the finer toilet soaps.By 1910, the factory manufactured several different laundry and toilet soaps. The most popular laundry brand was named “Peosta” and its glycerin hand soap was another favorite. Other kinds made included White Castile and Key City soap powder.
 Although the soap from the Dubuque factory was sold across the country, its principal market was the Midwest.
 In February 1918, James Beach Sr. was accidentally thrown from a horse-drawn sleigh and died. He had been active in civic affairs.
 The soap industry changed. The development of continuous processes for making soap was only one of many steps taken to produce more at less cost.
 Now, synthetic detergents account for about 90 percent of packaged washing products manufactured in the country. New detergents are used to make liquid cleansers and toilet bars for home and industry.

Source:
JAMES BEACH, of the firm of Pleins & Beach soap and candle manufacturers, corner of Dodge and Bluff streets, Dubuque; is a native of Dover, New Hampshire, and was born July 26, 1835; when 12 years of age he went to Lawrence, Mass., where he grew up to manhood; in 1856, he came to Chicago, and the following year came to Iowa, and located in Dubuque; he engaged in his present business with Mr. Pleins, and the firm of Pleins & Beach have carried on the business for twenty-three years, and built up a good trade; they are the oldest firm without change except one in the city. Mr. Beach has held the office of City Alderman. Mr. Beach was united in marriage to Miss Sadie Barr, from Springfield, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1873; they have three children: George, Edward and Charles. pg.764

James married Caroline J. WILSON on 14 Jan 1861 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Caroline (daughter of Wait B. WILSON and Caroline ------) was born on 12 Dec 1843 in Connecticut; died on 18 Feb 1872; was buried in Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1870, Dubuque, Iowa

Notes:

She was the daughter of Wait B. and Caroline J. Wilson.

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• Census: 1850, North Berwick, York, Maine
• Census: 1860, Lebanon, York, Maine
• Census: 1870, North Berwick, York, Maine
• Census: 1880, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1900, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

From Essex, Massachusetts Biographies, 1897.

GEORGE S. JUNKINS
 George S. Junkins, a former Mayor of Lawrence, was born in North Berwick, York, Me. May 10, 1846. A son of Daniel and Louisa (Weymouth) Junkins, he is of the fifth generation in America descended from his immigrant ancestor, who came from Scotland an settled in old York, Me. From York the family subsequently moved to Berwick, Me. Jotham Junkins, the grandfather of George S., born in 1791, was a farmer in North Berwick. He married a Miss Ingraham, of Portland, Me., who bore him one son and three daughters.
 Daniel Junkins, born in North Berwick in 1821, who as a meat dealer in South Berwick, died in his native town in 1893. His first wife, Louisa, also a native of North Berwick, died in 1855, aged thirty-seven. She was the mother of five children, namely : Mary Ellen, who died at the age of seventeen; Oscar W., who became a sea captain, and whose residence is in Lawrence; Daniel E., now a farmer of Buxton, Me. ; George S., the subject of this sketch ; and Sarah A., who became the wife of Charles H. Lindsay, and died without issue in 1895.

The maiden name of Daniel Junkins’s second wife, who came from Smithfield, was Olive Merrill. A most estimable lady, she has been a kind mother to the orphaned children. At present she is living in Somersworth, N.H. Her children by her late husband are : Louise, the wife of Alvin H. Stevens, of Dover, N.H. ; Mary, the wife of Frank Malory, of Somersworth, N.H. ; and Frank, a resident of Lebanon, Me.
 George S. Junkins acquired his early education in the common schools of South Berwick and Lebanon. At the age of sixteen he wen to work in a flannel factory in North Berwick, where he was employed for six years. He then opened a meat market in Lawrence in company with A. I. Mellen. Since that time the firm has established an extensive and prosperous business. Mr. Junkins has ranked prominently among the business menn of Lawrence for over thirty years. He is active and popular among the Lawrence Republicans. In 1890 he was in the Common Council, in 1891 and 1893 he was member of the Board of Aldermen, and since 1893 he has been serving on the Water Board, of which at present he is the President. Elected Mayor in 1896 an re-elected in 1897, he proved a progressive and able chief magistrate.
 Mr. Junkins was married April 2, 1870, to Josie M. McDuffee, of this city, a daughter of Charles and Sarah (Hopkinson) McDuffee. Some time ago, Mr. McDuffee, who was a carpenter and builder, fell from a building, and died one week after from the injuries he then received, aged fifty-nine years. His wife had died at the age of twenty-nine, leaving Josie M., her only child. Mr. and Mrs. Junkins have three children : Bertha L., an accomplished young lady, who, having completed the classical course in Boston University, graduated therefrom June 1, 1898 ; Helen M., who is a teacher in Dr. Sargent’s School of Physical Culture in Cambridge, Mass. ; and Marion W., now sixteen years of age, who graduated in June, 1898, from the Lawrence High School. Mr. Junkins is a steward and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church and a member of several fraternal organizations. The family resides in a handsome home at 6 Greene Street, which Mr. Junkins purchased in February, 1875.

Republicans Select George S. Junkins
 LAWRENCE, Nov 18 — The republican mayoralty and aldermanic conventions tonight made the following nominations: For mayer, George S. Junkins; for aldermen, ward 1, E. H. Humphrey; ward 2, George H. Goldsmith; ward 3, A. H. Robinson; ward 4, Ira D. Blandin; ward 5, S. Byron Bodwell; ward 6, John Haigh. (Source: Boston Daily Globe, Nov. 19, 1895).

George married Josephine Mary McDUFFEE on 2 Apr 1870 in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts. Josephine (daughter of Charles McDUFFEE and Sarah Clay HOPKINSON) was born on 2 Feb 1848 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire; died on 6 Aug 1913 in Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa; was buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1855, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1860, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1865, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1870, North Berwick, York, Maine
• Census: 1880, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1900, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1910, Mayfield, Santa Clara, California

Notes:

From The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 89, page 205 :
Mrs. Josephine Mcduffee Junkins.
DAR ID Number: 88646
Born in Rochester, N. H.
Wife of George S. Junkins.
Descendant of James McDuffee, Caleb Hopkinson, Solomon Lombard, and Calvin Lombard, as follows:
1. Charles McDuffee (1825-86) m. 1st 1846 Sarah C. Hopkinson (1827-54).
2. James McDuffee (1796-1868) m. 1821 Hannah Ham (1801-90); Moses Hopkinson (1796-1881) m. 1821 Elizabeth Hamlin (1796-1870).
3. Jacob McDuffee (1770-1848) m. 1794 Abigail Flagg (1774-1870); Stephen Hopkinson (b. 1771) m. Rachel Lombard (b. 1773).
4. James McDuffee m. 1762 Mercy Young; Caleb Hopkinson m. 1770 Sarah Clay Stafford (b. 1745); Calvin Lombard m. Martha Grant.
5. Solomon Lombard m. 1724 Sarah Purington.
— James McDuffee (1726-1804) served on the Committee of Safety from Rochester, N. H., where he was born and died.
— Caleb Hopkinson (1747-1841) served several enlistments and was one of Gates’ bodyguard at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was born in Bradford, Mass.; died in Lemington, Me.
— Solomon Lombard (1702-81) was chairman of the Committee of Safety, 1776, served in the General Court and as Judge of Cumberland County. He died in Gorham, Me.
— Calvin Lombard (1748-1808) served as a volunteer with the Gorham minute men. He was born in Truro, Mass.; died in Lemington, Me.

From The Kneeland Miscellany, Compiled by Bertha J. and Frank E. Kneeland, 1914-1917. Page 206.
George Selby and Mary Josephine (McDuffee) Junkins [were] born 10, 1846 and February 12, 1848, at South Berwick, Maine, and Rochester, New Hampshire, respectively. They were married at Lawrence, Mass., April 12, 1870 (4/2/70) and, with the exception of the first year of their married life during which Mr. Junkins was in charge of a woolen factory at North Berwick, Me., lived continuously in that city, of which he was twice Mayor, up to the time of his death on November 12, 1900. Some three years after his death and after her daughters Helen and Marian had graduated from the Boston University School of Medecine and Radcliffe College respectively in 1903 (1903), Mrs. Junkins removed with her daughter Helen to Lowell, Mass, where they resided upt to the time of the latter’s marriage to Edward J. Beach at her sister Marian’s home on the grounds of Leland Stanford, Jr. University at Palo Alto, California, in April 1909.
 Having previously sold her home on Tower Hill, Lawrence, (110 Bodwell street), Mrs. Junkins thereafter became a considerable traveller, making frequent visits to her daughters in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dubuque, Iowa, and Leland Stanford, Jr., University, California, taking occasion to see such natural wonders as The Yellowstone, The Yosemite, and The Grand Canyon of Arizona en route, a tour of Alaska in 1911, and one of Europe extending through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland and Belgium, in 1912. She last visited her eldest daughter at Brooklyn on her return from Europe in September, 1912, at which time she took the pictures of her grand-daughter Helen seated in her baby chairs and bath-tub on the roof of the apartment house at 128 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, with the tower of the Christian Science Church accross the way in the background, which appear in Helen’s baby album. Leaving for Dubuque on this occasion, Mrs. Junkins made the trip up the Hudson on one of the Day Line steamers and opined that, except for the castles, the real Rhine which she had traversed a few weeks previously had nothing on its American prototype! Shortly after her youngest daughter Marian’s third child (Carlton Skinner) was born at the hospital in Palo Alto, California, in April, 1913, Mrs. Junkins herself was forced to become a patient in the same hospital where she underwent two operations for the stomach trouble from which she had long been a sufferer! She rallied sufficiently to make the trip to Dubuque, Iowa, in the early Summer of 1913, but suffered a relapse shortly after her arrival and died in the hospital to which she had been removed in Dubuque on August 6, 1913. Both she and her husband sleep in the lot which he had provided in the Extension to Bellevue Cemetery at Lawrence, Mass. Prior to his election to the Mayoralty, Mr. Junkins had been in the Meat and Provision business. After his second term as Mayor had expired he became associated with the Stanley Grain Company of Lawrence as its Treasurer! It is now owned and conducted by George A. Stanley, whose father was the original founder of the business!

Wait married Caroline ------. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1840, North Berwick, York, Maine
• Census: 1850, North Berwick, York, Maine
• Census: 1860, Lebanon, York, Maine
• Census: 1870, Lebanon, York, Maine

Notes:

Before 1860 he moved to Lebanon, Maine where he was a farmer.

Daniel married Louisa Hartwell WEYMOUTH on 17 Mar 1838 in North Berwick, York, Maine. Louisa was born on 1 Feb 1817 in Maine; died on 25 May 1854 in North Berwick, York, Maine; was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, North Berwick, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, North Berwick, York, Maine

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• Census: 1855, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1860, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts
• Census: 1865, Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts

Charles married Sarah Clay HOPKINSON on 21 Dec 1846 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire. Sarah (daughter of Moses HOPKINSON and Elizabeth HAMLIN) was born on 23 Jul 1827 in Buxton, York, Maine; died on 4 Sep 1854 in Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire; was buried in 1854 in Old Cemetery, Rochester, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]