Edward Bean

 

Edward Bean


Twitter handle: @the_mke_bean

This image was taken of Edward Bean and a chimp named Chili. 

The character I am responsible for during the reenactment is Edward Bean who was a real person that worked at the Washington Park Zoo. Edward H. Bean was born on May 1st, 1874 in Westfield, Illinois to his parents Robert and Jane W. Bean. His father was a flour miller and owned flour mills at various places in the country. Edward Bean attended public schooling and finished his studies in Sullivan, Illinois where he learned the milling business with his father. He then went to work in Chicago under Carl Hagenbeck as a clerk and a buyer at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1892. There he developed a strong relationship with animals where he learned about their habitats and behaviors. After the exposition was over he returned home to Sullivan and worked under his father, learning the miller's trade which he continued to do for four years. Then he was appointed by the governor of Illinois at the time which was Governor Tanner to be the barn boss at the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Orphans home where he stayed for three years. In 1901 he went back to Chicago where he got married and his wife's name was Margaret A. Anderson on June 25th and they operated a restaurant for four months before Bean began his work at the Lincoln Park Zoo. At the zoo he worked as a laborer where he stayed for six years. After that he came to Milwaukee to take charge of the Zoological Garden of the city at the Washington Park Zoo and stayed there until 1926. Bean was very influential for the Washington Park Zoo because he helped purchase many animals for the zoo in order for it to grow and be the zoo it is today. When he first arrived there were only seventy-five animals and by the time he retired there were over 800 animals. 

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