Will County IL Archives Biographies.....BEATTIE, JAMES 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

JAMES C. BEATTIE, who is a leading business man of Elwood, was born in 

Winfield, Ill., April 9, 1856, a son of Robert and Margaret (Mcllrath) Beattie, 

natives of County Antrim, Ireland.  He was one of eight children, of whom two 

besides himself are now living, viz.: Jennie, who married Z. T. Blaine, of 

Kansas; and Robert, a carpenter in Joliet.  His father, who was born in 1815, 

grew to manhood on the home farm and for a number of years was employed as 

deliveryman for a bakery, in addition to his work as a farmer.  About 1850 he 

brought his family to America and settled in Illinois, where he was a sub 

contractor in railroad construction.  In 1858 he purchased a farm on the Rock 

Run in Troy Township, Will County, and there resided until 1880, when he 

retired from active labors and removed to Joliet.  His death occurred in this 

city in 1896.  In politics he was a stanch supporter of Republican principles, 

and in religion a Presbyterian.  Besides the advantages of the public schools, 

our subject took the regular commercial course in the Metropolitan Business 

College in Chicago, from which he graduated in 1875.  Afterward he became 

connected with Henry T.  Truby in the grain business, the two erecting an 

elevator in Wilmington Township, where the canal then had a feeder.  He had 

full charge of the business. In 1881 the elevator was built at Elwood and the 

business transferred to this point, where he has since resided, having full 

charge of the business at this place.  For a number of years he has served as 

township central committeeman, and he has also been a member of the village 

board. In politics he is a Republican.  Fraternally he is connected with 

Jackson Camp No. 3318, M. W. A., and Elwood Camp of Royal Brothers.

In religion he is a Presbyterian. September 15, 1881, Mr. Beattie married Miss

Elizabeth A. Truby, a sister of Henry T. Truby, whose sketch appears on another 

page.  They are the parents of three children, Alice Marie, Florence H. and 

James Truby.  Mr. Beattie has been a successful business man and as such has 

gained the good will of all who know him.


Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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