This tiny building which once stood at
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Some Beaver families have lived here for generations, some for only a few years. Like others its size, Beaver has contributed to the growth of the great American West and Southwest, both in pioneer days and in the industrialization since World War 11. With less need for college trained people here, its young people graduate from college and settle in other parts of the country, but the population remains nearly constant.
Over the years, men and women who had experienced moments of great adventure in places far away and had sat high among their peers, returned to stay in the little village on the Ohio. A Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, a United States Senator and Congressional Medal of Honor winner, an engineer whose works span the globe, a veteran of the Charge of the Light Brigade, a physician who twice lived under the midnight sun of the South Pole. Medical missionaries travelled again and again to pest-ridden Ethiopia, or to the people of the South Pacific, nurses flew with bush pilots over the Alaska tundra, tended Eskimo mothers in their igloos and Navahos in their Pueblos, and the foremost ornithologist of the Western Hemisphere pursued his profession for the better part of a century and all called this home.
This tiny building which once stood at
Turnpike and Insurance
Streets was reputed to be the operating room for the Gibson
Hospital, which also stood at this site.