Beil, Reuben H.

BEIL, STUKAS, CHRISTENSEN

Posted By: Debbie Clough Gerischer (email)
Date: 7/6/2026 at 02:28:38

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Debbie Clough Gerischer Bare67deb@aol.com July 4, 2005, 3:31 am

Author: A Narrative History of The People of Iowa

A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa

REUBEN H. BEIL, owner of the Beil Studio and Beil Photo Supply House at
Clinton, is a native son of that city and is one of its most active and public
spirited younger citizens.

He was born in Clinton April 26, 1885, son of Thomas A. and Clara (Stukas)
Beil. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Illinois, and
the former came to Iowa when a young man. Reuben H. Beil was educated in the
Clinton grade schools. When he was sixteen years of age he was working as a
clerk in a grocery store. After a year he entered the rug business, which he
followed for eight years.

Since then he has been a photographer, and since 1912 the Beil Studio has
enjoyed a reputation and a business that ranks it among the leading studios of
the Mississippi Valley. The Beil Photo Supply House is a general retail
business well known in the Clinton trade territory. Mr. Beil's studio is
located at the corner of Second street and Second Avenue, South.

He married, July 20, 1909, Hansine Christensen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Christen Christensen. Her father came from Denmark when a young man and for
many years worked as a wagon maker in Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Beil have two
children, Edna and Mildred. Mr. Beil is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite
Mason, a member of the Woodmen, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Chamber of
Commerce and the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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