Claud beelman biography for kids

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Carriage painter, D.L. Beelman Carriage Shop, Lima, OH, c. 1900. Claud's artistic inclinations were put to use in the family carriage-making shop, with him painting carriages produced there.

Architect, Lima, OH, c. 1906. (See R.L. Polk and Company’s Lima City Directory, 1906, p. 130.) In the city directory's classified section, five architectural firms were listed as operating in Lima, OH, in 1906, and it is possible Beelman worked for one of them. They included: J.A. Chapin, (located in Room #404 of the Holland Block), Dawson and McLaughlin, (Room #14 of the Central Building), Leech and Leech, (Rooms #609 of the Badeau Block), B.F. Mathews, (Rooms #34-35 of the Cincinnati Block) and F.J. Sonderman (at 518 West Wayne Street). (See Lima, Ohio, City Directory, 1906, p. 509.)

Designer, Mills, Rhines, Bellman and Nordhoff, Architects, Toledo, OH, 1913. This firm had an office in Room #1234 of the Ohio Building. Beelman likely relocated to Toledo to work in the office of