Jacob Beam/Boehm (1756-1836)
Cyclopædia of Methodism. Embracing Sketches of its
Rise, Progress, and Present Condition with Biographical Notices,
Matthew Simpson, Editor, 1878, p. 290. BOEHM, JACOB, was one of
the eight children of MARTIN BOEHM, and the brother of HENRY BOEHM.
There is little known of him, and the usual historical sources of
early American Methodism record neither the dates of his birth nor of
his death. He may have been the eldest son of Martin Boehm, since he
was named after his grandfather and later was given charge of the
family farm so that Martin could travel more widely as a preacher.
Henry Boehm says that Jacob gave the ground for BOEHM'S CHAPEL but
the original deed reads, "From Martin Boehm to a Society of
Christians calling themselves Methodists." FRANCIS ASBURY
speaks well of Jacob Boehm in his Journal, stating in 1799 that Jacob
had "followed us nearly the space of twenty years,"
mentioning also that "God hath begun to bless the children of
his family." Henry Boehm spoke highly of a John Boehm, who he
said was his nephew. The boy was probably a son of Jacob. In 1812 and
again in 1813 Asbury records in his Journal that he not only visited
Jacob but preached at his house.
References: F. Asbury, Journal and Letters. 1958. Vol.
II, 200, 697, 740. H. Boehm, Reminiscences. 1875. Koontz
and Roush, The Bishops. 1950.
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