Personal Life
Henry M. Beardsley married his wife Marietta(Davis) in 1882. They were the parents of three children: Eleanor M.(born 1884), George D. (born 1887), and Henry S. (born 1895). In 1940 Henry S. Beardsley ran for 1st District United States Representative but was defeated. Henry Beardsley's grandson, Melville W. Beardsley, was an inventor and aeronautical engineer who contributed much to Hovercraft technology. On April 19, 1938 Henry Mahan Beardsley suffered a fatal heart attack in his Kansas City home.
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