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.