Beanite Quakerism refers to the independent tradition of QuakerismSince its beginnings in England, Quakerism has spread to other countries, chiefly Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Kenya, Peru, and the United States. The total number of Quakers is relatively small (approximately 350,000 worldwide FWCC's map of quaker meetings and ...Quakerism started by Quaker ministers JoelJoel Bean (1825-1914) was a Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) minister whose name has been associated with a branch of Quakerism that some label “Beanite.” Bean was born in Alton, New Hampshire. His parents were John and Elizabeth (Hill) Bean. He attended Friends Boarding School in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to Iowa in 1853, where he taught school in West Branch. Bean met Hannah Elliot Shipley from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during a trip she took to Iowa. In 1859 they got married at the Orange Street Meeting House ...Joel and Hannah Bean in the western U.S. in the late 19th centuryThe 19th century (also written XIX century) lasted from 1801 through 1900 in the Gregorian calendar.19th century, and in a more specific sense refers to the three western yearly meetings that spring from that tradition.

The Beans were originally from the northeast, but had moved to IowaThe State of Iowa (IPA: /IPA chart for English|/) is a state in the midwestern region of the United States of America. It is the 29th state of the United States, having joined the Union on December 28, 1846. The state is named for the Native American Ioway people. It is known as the "Hawkeye State" or the "Tall Corn State".Iowa and joined [Iowa Yearly Meeting (IYM) in the late 1850s. They had not intended to start a new tradition of Quakerism, but in 1870s and 1880s, an evangelical "revival" movement spread to Iowa Quakers, who by degrees abandoned traditional Quaker beliefs and practices in favor of more charismaticCharisma is a rare personality trait usually encompassing leadership abilities, eloquence, charm, and persuasiveness. Charismatic people possess a unique personal charm, magnetism and presence which can be detected even by walking into a room. :See also: Charism Charisma may also refer to: * Charismatic authority, a sociology term coined by Max Weber * Charismatic movement, a subset of the Christian belief system * Charismatic, a Christian who believes that christians ...charismatic, ProtestantProtestantism encompasses the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated with the doctrines of the Reformation. The term is derived from the Protestatio delivered by a minority of delegates against the (1529) Diet of Speyer, which passed legislation opposed by the Lutherans. Since that time, the term has been used in many different senses, but not as the official title of any church until it was assumed in 1783 by the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, the ...Protestant ones. The Beans eventually became alarmed by this phenomenon, and argued against it, but they preferred to work within IYM rather than splitting off as other Quakers did (forming Iowa Conservative Yearly Meeting). But the new revivalist majority in IYM continued to press them, finally denouncing their views in the 1881 yearly session.

The Beans shortly moved to San Jose, CaliforniaSan Jose is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. San Jose is located in Silicon Valley, at the south end of San Francisco Bay. Once a small farming city, San Jose became a magnet for suburban newcomers in new housing developments between the 1960s and the 1990s, and is now the largest city in Northern California. The official United States Census Bureau population estimate ...San Jose, California and started a meeting there; still not wanting to break fellowship with their Yearly Meeting, they retained their membership and formed the meeting under the care of Iowa Yearly Meeting. But IYM sent two revivalist ministers to California after them, who cause a split in the meeting. The Beans and their supporters withdraw again to form another meeting, in a building they built themselves, and again applied for recognition by IYM. But IYM officially disbanded the Beans' meeting, after sending them a list of doctrinal questions to which the Beans' meeting did not give satisfactory answers, and over the next few years officially purged them as ministers and then as members.

Being forced by IYM to be on their own, the Beans thus became innovators. In 1889 they reorganized their local meeting as the College Park Association of Friends, which over the following decades became the hub of otherwise-unaffiliated Quaker meetings that appeared in the West, which later grew to be what are now known as Pacific Yearly Meeting, North Pacific Yearly Meeting, and Intermountain Yearly Meeting.