Woodbury County IA Archives Biographies.....Beaty, Robert I. August 18, 1872 - 
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Author: NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION

NORTHWESTERN
IOWA
ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION
VOLUME II
1804-1926
R. I. Beaty

The law of compensation holds good throughout the world. Industry and 
tenacity of purpose win success when intelligently directed, while strength of 
character commands uniform regard. Both of these Robert I. Beaty has won and 
for more than twenty years his name has been closely and prominently associated 
with building operations in Sioux City. He was born August 18, 1872, in Clinton 
county, Missouri, and in both the paternal and maternal lines is of Scotch and 
Irish descent. His parents were Robert H. and Mary B. (Slemons) Beaty, the 
former a native of Kentucky and the latter a Virginian.

Mr. Beaty was educated in the public schools of Clinton county and remained 
in his native state until he reached the age of twenty-eight years, working his 
way steadily upward in the business world. He was made superintendent of the 
Northern Building Company of Minneapolis and in 1900 arrived in Orange City, 
Iowa. He had charge of several large construction jobs and remained with that 
corporation until 1903. He supervised the building of the Sioux county court 
house at Orange City, devoting one and a half years to that task, and in 1904 
moved to Sioux City, becoming a member of the Haakinson & Beaty Company. The 
business was incorporated in 1904 and has since been conducted under the 
style of the Haakinson-Beaty Company, of which Carl E. Haakinson is the 
president.
 
Mr. Beaty acts as secretary and treasurer of the company and his broad 
experience and detailed knowledge of the business have been essential to its 
success. The corporation specialies in fabricated steel and ornamental iron 
work and in construction circles of this part of the state the firm name has 
long been synonymous with enterprise and reliability. The company has furnished 
the material for many of the finest buildings in this part of the country and 
since its inception the business has made rapid strides.

In 1904 Mr. Beaty was married in Orange City, Iowa, to Miss Marie Oggel, 
whose father is the publisher of Volks Vriend, a widely read journal of that 
city. Helen M., the only child of this union, is nineteen years of age and a 
student at the State University in Iowa City. Mr. Beaty belongs to the Chamber 
of Commerce and is also a Rotarian. He is a consistent member of the First 
Baptist church and a good citizen whose influence is always on the side of 
reform, progress and improvement.



Debbie Clough Gerischer
Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County
http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/
IAGENWEB: Special History Project:
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Gerischer Family Web Site:
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