----- Original Message ----- From: "Maggie Stewart" <maggieohio@columbus.rr.com> To: <OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 6:17 AM Subject: Fw: Beattie Biographies from Ohio and related information > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Judith Weeks Ancell <jancell@micron.net> > To: <OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 2:22 PM > > > > Judith Weeks Ancell jancell@micron.net > 1810 Edgecliff Terrace > Boise, ID 83702-2911 > > Hello, > I have transcribed the following information for the Beatty/Beattie > Archives. I would also like to submit it to the US GenWeb Biographies as > several states are mentioned. I am not researching this family, although my > Beattie family is from Ashland/Richland Cos. Ohio. > The two volumes of this book are not indexed - I cannot do look-ups. > However, if it is all right with you I would be glad to submit > transcriptions from time to time. Please let me know it this is all right. > I ampasting below the recent transcriptions that I made. Feel free to > break them apart as you wish. > Judith > > I have a copy of: > Henry Howe LLD, Howes Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes, An > Encyclopedia of the State, Volume I, (Published by the State of Ohio; The > Laning Printing Co., Public Printers, Norwalk, OH (1896)). > Chapter: Ohio In The Civil War by Gen. John Beatty. > Page 150: "General John Beatty was born near, Sandusky, Ohio, December 16, > 1828. his education was obtained at the district school of a pioneer > settlement. His grandfather, John Beatty, was an anti-slavery man of the > James G. Birney school; from him the present John imbibed in boyhood his > first political tenets, and to these he has adhered somewhat obstinately > ever since. In 1852 he supported John P. Hale for the presidency. In 1856 > he cast his vote for John C. Fremont. In 1860 he was the Republican > presidentail elector for the district which sent John Sherman to Congress. > When the war broke out in 1861, he was the first to put his name to an > enlistment roll in Morrow county. he was elected to the captaincy of his > company, subsequently made lieutenant-colonel, then colonel of the Third > Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in 1862 advanced to the position of > brigadeir-general of volunteers. He was with McClellan and Rosecrans in > West Virginia, summer and fall 1861; with General O. M. Mitchel in his dash > through Southern Kentucky, Middle Tennessee and Northern Alabama in the > spring of 1862. Returning with General Buell to the Ohio river, he joined > in the pursuit of Bragg, and on October 8, 1862, fought at the head of his > regiment in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky. In the December following > he was assigned to the command of a brigade of Rousseau's division, and led > it through the our days' battle of Stone River, closing on the night of > January 3, 1863, with an assult on the enemy's barricade, on the left of the > Murfreesboro' turnpike, which he carried at the point of a bayonet. he was > with rosecrans on the Tullahoma campaign, and after the enemy evacuated > their stronghold, overtook thiem at Elk river, drove their rear guard from > the heights beyond, and led the column which pursued them to the summit of > the Cumberland. While the army rested at Winchester, Tennessee, he was > president of a board to examine applicants for commissions in colored > regiments, and continued in this service until the army crossed the > Tennessee river and entered on the Chattanooga campaign. In this advance > into Georgia his brigade had the honor of being the first of Thomas' corps > to cross Lookout mountain. He was with Brannan and Negley in the affair at > Rossville. At the re-organization of the Army of the Cumberland he was > assigned to the command of the second brigade of Davis' division Thomas' > corps, but was with Sherman at the battle of Mission Ridge; and when the > rebel line broke he led the column in pursuit of the retreating enemy, > overtook his rear guard near Graysvile, whee a short but sharp encounter > occurred, in which Gen. George Many, commanding the opposing force, was > wounded, and his troops compelled to retire in disorder. Subsequently he > accompanied Sherman in the expidition to Knoxville for the relief of > Burnside, and the close of his campaign ended his military service. > Gen. Beatty was elected to the Fortieth Congress from the Eighth Ohio > district, and re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty- second Congresses, > serving first as a member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, then as > Chairman of Committee on Public Printing. > In 1884 he was one of the Republican electors-at-large, and in 1886-7 a > member of the Baord of State Charities. He has since 1873 been engaged in > the business of banking in Columbus, Ohio."..... > Page 152: "Brigadier-Generals of Ohio Birth:.... John Beatty, Sandusky, > December 16, 1828." > > Page 153: "Brigadier Generals Resident in Ohio, but born elsewhere Those > having brevet rank of Major-General marked wit a cross (+)...... > Samuel Beatty, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1820." (+)..." > Roll Of Members Of The Ohio Commandery Military Order Of The Loyal Legion Of > The United States..... > > Page 156: Members Of Ohio Commandery, June, 1889: ..... > Beatty, John, Brig.-Gen. U. S. V., Columbus, O. > Beatty, W. G., Maj. O. V. I., Cardington, O." > > > > Erie County OH [was formed in 1838 from Huron and Sandusky Counties] > Page: 581 - 582: > "The original owner of the land on which Milan stands was John Beatty, a > native of the north of Ireland. he was the largest landowner in the > Fire-Lands and the grandfather of General John Beatty, whos has favored us > with this sketch of him, accompanied with some racy anecdotes: Among the > more prominent of the ealy settlers of Erie county was John Beatty, formerly > of New London, Connecticut. His first visit t o Ohio was made in 1810, at > which time he bought some 40,000 acres within the present limits of Erie and > Huron, of what were then known as the "Fireland-Lands." In 1815 he removed > with his family to this wilderness and built his first residence five miles > south of Sandusky, on what is still known to the older residents of that > section as the "stone-house place." When the township of Perkins was > organized Mr. Beatty was made its first clerk. Susbequently he was > appointed postmaster, and for many years thereafter he served the pioneers > as justice of the peace. About 1828 he removed to Sandusky, and in 1833 was > elected mayor of that city. he died in 1845, and is still remembered as an > upright, intelligent, warm-hearted, hospitable gentleman. The cuhrch > edifice nowstanding on the public square of Sandusky, and occupied at this > date by the Lutherans, was built at his cost and donated by him to the > Weseyan Methodist. Society. > John Beattie was a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and > from 1815 to 1819 on almost every Sabbath met the pioneers in their log > school-houses or at their homes and addressed them very acceptably on > religious subjects. he was, however, a hot-tempered, impulsive, generaous, > obstinate Irishman, who never succeeded in reaching that degree of > perfection which enable him to live his enemies and offer the left cheek to > an adversary who had smitten him on the right. > An Accommodating Postmaster -- In 1816, or thereabouts, a post-office > was established and Beatty appointed postmaster. The ear of cheap > transportation and of cheap postage had not arrived. The settlers were > poor; few of them could raise the shilling with which to pay the postage of > a letter, but it was hard to have it withheld simply because they were poor > and had no money. The new postmaster proved equal to the occasion; he gave > them their letters and never made returns to the department. When called > upon to do so he replied that he had received no money from the office, and > therefore had none to return, and instead of being indebted to the > government, the latter was in fact indebted to him. This sort of logic, > however satisfactory to the settlers, was by no means pleasing to the > Post-Office Department, and so the government in 1819 discontinued the > office, and thus afforded Mr. Beatty greater liesure to look after th > spiritual welfare of his neighbors. > He was the original propietor of theland on which the town of Milan now > stands; the site on the banks of the Huron river was naturally a very pretty > one. Frederick Deucke, a Moravian missionary, had, in 1804, establlished a > mission there and called the Place Petquoting -- a very handsome name by the > way and one which the people should never have abbandoned. In 1814 Mr. > Ebenezer merry, having bought the place, laid out a villiage, and in honor > of the first owner called it Beatty. > An Audacious Seizure -- Among the first vessel built in what is now > Erie county, was one built by Abijah Jewitt, Eleazer Bell and a man named > Montgomery on the bay shore a few miles southeast of Sandusky. In one of > its first voyages it brought to Sandusky a cargo comprising a stock of > general merchandise for Mr. Beatty, and among other things a cask of brandy > which had not been entered at the custom house. The vessel was consequently > seized and subsequently confiscated. Mr. Beatty's merchandise was put under > lock and guard and the case reported to the department. The mails moved > slowly in those days; time passed, and conscious of no fault on his part > respecting the matter, Beatty grew impatient, and finally called his friends > about him, drove his tems onto the wharf, put revenue officers and their > employ'es aside, broke open the doors of the warehouse, and carried off his > merchandise. All this was not difficult to do; the troublesome part of this > affair came afterward, and resulted not from the cask of smuggled brandy, > but from the violent and unwarrantable manner in which he had regained > possession of his goods. The United States government was a big thing, even > then, and no single citizen could afford to defy it, as Mr. Beatty > discovered some years afterward, when compelled to pay the costs and > penalties growing out of this unfortunate transaction. > The Candle Story -- While a resident of New London, Connecticut, a boy > stole from Mr. Beatty a box of candles; the thief was promptly arresed and > arraigned before a magistrate; a witness appeared who testified that the boy > was guilty as charged, and Beatty being called to prove the value of the > property, swore that "the candles were worth, four dollars, every penny of > it." Under the law respecting petty offence at that time in force in > Connecticut, when the property stolen was worth from four dollars, and > upward, the penalty was whipping at the post! The magistrate was about to > pass sentence, when Beatty realized for the first time the terrible nature > of the punishment; his anger had by this time cooled, and a feeling of pity > for the boy supplanting every other emotion, he took the wittness stand > again and said: "if it please your honor I desire to correct my testimony. > I swore that the candles were worth four dollars, but I ommited to add that > thatwas the retail price; as the boy took a whole box I'll put them to him > at three dollars and thrity-three cents." The boy was not whipped. > Jay Cooke's Start __ Mr. Pitt Cooke once told me how his brother Jay > happened to get into the banking business, and as nearly as I can recollect > it was as follows: The Cookes were living in a house on Columbus avenue > (Sandusky) near the present site of the Second National Bank. One day, when > the family were seated at the dinner table, Eleutheros Cooke, the father, > said in a spirit of pleasantry: "Well boys, you must look out for > yourselves. I have sold this house to "Squire Beatty, and we have no home > now." Jay was the only one who took the matter seriously. he obtained a > situation in a store tht afternoon, subsequently accompanied his employer to > Philadelphia, and this opened the way for him to the position of clerk in a > banking house, and from this humble start in life he became the financial > agent of the United States." >