Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Beattie, Joseph A. 1862 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOSEPH A. BEATTIE.

    Joseph A. Beattie, who resides on section 34, Center township, and is
filling the position of township trustee, was born in Winfield township. Lake
county, Indiana, July 5, 1862. His father was William Beattie, a native of
Ireland, in which country he was reared and married. His wife bore the maiden
name of Rebecca Ross and was also a native of the Emerald Isle. Crossing the
Atlantic, they became residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and thence
removed to Lake county, Indiana, locating in Winfield township, where Mr.
William Beattie carried on agricultural pursuits throughout his remaining days.
He passed away April 9, 1899, and his wife also died in Lake county, the date of
her death being June 1, 1899. In their family were nine children, three sons and
six daughters, of whom three died in infancy, while six reached years of
maturity and four are now living.

    Joseph A. Beattie, the eighth member of the family and the only surviving
son, was reared on the old family homestead and is indebted to the district
schools for the early educational privileges he enjoyed. He afterward attended
the high school at Crown Point, and when not engaged with the duties of the
schoolroom he gave his father the benefit of his services by assisting in the
cultivation and improvement of the home farm. He remained under the parental
roof until his marriage, which important event in his life occurred on the 27th
of November, 1890, the lady of his choice being Miss Gertrude C. Holton, a
daughter of Charles V. and Margaret Jane (Cochran) Holton, who were early
settlers of Lake county. Mrs. Beattie was born in this county and was here
reared and educated. At the time of his marriage Mr. Beattie became a resident
of Crown Point, but in 1891 he took charge of the Willow dale stock farm,
comprising four hundred and twenty acres. He has since remained as its
superintendent, filling the position for twelve years in a most acceptable
manner. This is the property of William J. Davis, of Chicago. In 1892, in
connection with Mr. Davis, Mr. Beattie purchased three hundred acres of land on
section 18, Center township, and this farm is also conducted by Mr. Beattie, it
being devoted to pasturage and to the raising of hay for the stock. He handles
about one hundred and fifty head of cattle and horses and feeds all of the grain
raised. There is a fine creamery upon the place and the cream is shipped
principally td the Wellington and the Stratford hotels and the Chicago & Alton
Railway for use on dining cars. Mr. Beattie is recognized as a most enterprising
and progressive business man, conducting his farming interests along modern
lines, and his capable direction of his business affairs and untiring energy
have brought to him a creditable and gratifying measure of success.

  In his political views Mr. Beattie is a stanch Republican, and in 1900 he was
elected upon that ticket to the position of township trustee of Center township
for a term of four years, receiving a majority of more than two hundred, and
received sixty-six more votes in the township than were cast for the
presidential ticket, a fact which indicates his personal popularity among the
people with whom he has been acquainted from early boyhood. He has been the
president of the Lake County Agricultural Society for six years and was
re-elected in 1903. His efforts as the head of this organization have been
effective in promoting the welfare of the farming class of this county. He has
taken an active part in all public measures contributing to the general good,
and is a most progressive and enterprising citizen. Fraternally he is connected
with the Independent Order of Foresters. He has never lived outside the borders
of Lake county, his interests centering here, and among the residents of this
portion of the state he has many warm friends. He is one of the leading and
popular men of Lake county. 


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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