...from Past and Present of La Salle County, 1877 Bruce Township, page 538 W. W. Bean, Editor of Streator Monitor; born in Lisbon, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., April 13, 1845; removed while young to Ogdensburg, N. Y.; came to Peoria, Ill., in 1866; where he married Miss Martha J. Ross, of Lacon, Ill., removed to El Paso in 1868, and to Streator in 1869; served two years in Co. A, 16th N.Y. Vol. Inf., after which he lived in Washington, D.C., until the close of the Rebellion. ...from Ill. Sec of State's site: Mattie J. Ross and William W. Bean married Septeber 21, 1868 in Mercer County, Illinois. License # 2466 I beleive they had four children: Warren Ross Bean 1870 - 1945 William Dwight Bean 1879 - 1880 Fred Bean 1885 - 1885 (daughter)