>From "History of Venango County Pennsylvania Its Past and Present" Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1890 page 689-690 Jackson Township Pioneers It is a matter of definite tradition that ROBERT BEATTY was the first settler within the limits of this township and in the valley of Sugar creek from its mouth to Townville, Crawford County. Very little is known concerning his personal history. He came to this locality from one of the eastern counties of the state, probably as early as 1796, as his name occurs on the ledgers of both George Power and Edward Hale prior to 1800. At that point in the course of Sugar Creek where it is crossed by the southern line of Jackson township the valley of the stream is fully half a mile wide. The channel of the creek is near the bluffs on the east, leaving a level expanse of meadows with a gradual slope from the west. At an early date this was called the "the prairie." It was not covered with a dense forest like the surrounding country but merely with a thick growth of underbrush, and was readily reduced to cultivation. Here Robert Beatty made his settlement and lived to the end! of his life. He reared four sons: John, Francis, Samuel, and Robert; and seven daughters: Mary, Nancy, Sarah, Elizabeth, Isabel, Ann, and Lila. John was the father of the Reverend Robert Beatty, a well-known minister. In politics Mr. Beatty, Sr., was Democratic. Of Scotch extraction, he was Presbyterian in his church connection and gave the ground upon which Sugar Creek Church was built. He died May 16, 1823, in the sixty-third year of his age, and is buried under a clump of trees on the Shaw farm. On the previous day he had attended the funeral of Mrs. John Wilson and is said to have remarked that his own death was likely to occur soon. Its suddenness created a profound sensation. Page 1004 SAMUEL BEATTY, pumper and oil producer, was born in 1845, in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the son of William and Mary (English) Beatty, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. William Beatty was a member of a regiment that was raised in Pittsburgh to serve in the Mexican War, and was killed in one of its hardest battles. Our subject received his education in the public schools of his native city, and was employed in the iron mills there until March 29, 1864, when he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. He was wounded at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864, and on recovering was transferred to Company I, Sixteenth Reserves. After being mustered out he returned to Pittsburgh and engaged in farming in the vicinity of that city, subsequently removing to Lawrence county. In June, 1877, he came to Venango county, and engaged in coal mining for Findley Surrenna and afterwards worked for the Phillips Brothers, oil producers, with whom he remained four years. In 1882 he entered the employ of J. N. Hovis, with whom he has since remained, being interested in two producing wells. He was married in 1863 to Sarah B. Haslet, who died in 1873 leaving four children: William J.; Andrew S.; Samuel W., and Thomas J. In December, 1876, he was married to Mrs. Miranda E. Jacobs nee Surrenna, and by this union has on! e son, Edward E. Mr. Beatty is a Republican and a member of John M. Phipps Post, G. A. R. Page 1137 H. B. BEATTY, junior proprietor of Oakwood Rose Gardens, was born August 16, 1857, in Mercer county, son of E. S. and Agnes (Braham)Beatty. The father was born in 1824 in Butler county, near the Venango line, and his parents, Henry and Margaret Beatty, had the following children: Elizabeth; Jane; Ebenezer S.; Annie; Mahalah; Henry; David; John; Margaret; and Valentine. E. S. Beatty was the father of nine children: Melvina; Ralph; Mary; H. B.; Calvin; Viola; John; Agnes and Le Roy. H. B. Beatty was educated in the public schools of Rouseville, State Normal School at Edinboro, and Business University of Rochester, New York. He began for himself in producing oil. July 28, 1879 he was married to Miss May L., daughter of O. H. Strong, and has four children: Hollis S.; Minnie A.; Lorraine, and Eda Lois. Mr Beatty was once clerk of Cornplanter township, is a member of the Second Presbyterian church, and votes the Republican ticket. Laurel Baty, L252