Short Bio of Lewis D. Beall and Obit of Louis Erwin Beall

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Taken from the West Virginia Heritage Volume 2, 1976 Richwood, WV. Page 328

Lewis D. Beall (1871) born in Uniontown, Fayette county, PA, and was educated
in the public schools of Uniontown, PA. Trinity Hall, Washington, PA. He
received the degree of B.L. from W. Va. University in 1895 and was admitted to
the bar in Morgantown that same year. In 1896, he was appointed U. S.
Commissioner for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He began practicing law
in Morgantown in 1902. In 1903-1904, he was City Solicitor for the City of
Morgantown. 

This is the obit for my Great grandfather.

                                            L. E. BEALL DIES
                                           AFTER ILLNESS OF
		                                LONG DURATION

	After an illness of several years Louis Erwin Beall, 68 years old and a
member of an old Colonial family died Wednesday morning at 6:20 o'clock at
"THE GABLES" his home in the National Pike, where he had been unconscious
since Friday. Deceased was one of the projectors and principal owners of the
Hygeia Company , the second ice and cold storage plant ever built in
Pennsylvania and until his health made further activities impossible, he had
been closely identified and largely responsible for this very successful
plant, which has just completed its first quarter century.
	Mr. Beall was a son of Louis D. and Isabella H. Frey Beall, natives of
Allegany County, Maryland, who had come to Pennsylvania and settled in the
early 40's. Born on November 21, 1848, his early years were spent in Uniontown
where he prepared for college and entered Washington and Jefferson where he
was a student for several years. In 1874, he received an appointment at
Denver, Colorado, under the late Thomas B. Searight at that time, Surveyor
General of the territory. Three years later, Mr. Beall was transferred to a
position in the Post Office Department at Washington under Postmaster General
David M. Key, and after six years in this office, was made acting chief of the
bureau of contracts and supplies in the Navy Department, vice the paymaster
general, which position he held until 1890 when he returned to Uniontown and
with the late Judge Nathaniel Ewing as a partner, erected the Hygeia plant of
which he was general manager.
	In December 1884, Mr. Beall married Miss Harriet Morgan Clark, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Clark of Brooklyn, the ceremony being the event of the
Washington season, and to them were born three children, Louis Erwin, Jr.,
Priscilla McKaig, and Edward Clark Beall. It will be recalled by many friends
of the family that today is the ninth anniversary of Thanksgiving Friday,
1907, on which it was announced that the elder son had lost his life while
canoeing in the Delaware river with classmates from Princeton. The young man,
who was a brilliant student, was expecting to graduate with honors the
following spring and his tragic death was the sorrow of his father's life.
	Mrs. Beall, Miss Priscilla, and Edward Beall and Mr. Beall's two sisters,
Mrs. Mary Gilmore of Uniontown, and Mrs. William Vance of New York, survived
deceased. The late Clarence H. Beall was a brother.
	The Beall family is one of the most noted in the history of Maryland, having
given officers to the American Revolution and founders to some of that state's
principal towns. Mr. Beall was a direct descendent of Thomas Beall, founder of
Cumberland, Md. and George Beall, founder of Georgetown, District of Columbia,
and was a member of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati. He was also a
member of the Maryland Society of the Metropolitan club of Washington, DC and
numbered among his intimate friends many of the men among the nation's heroes.
Although he had not lived in Washington for more than 25 years, the family
have spent many winters in the south and the old friendships were kept up.
	Mr. Beall  belonged to the Laurel and Country Clubs of Uniontown and he was
one of the first and most ardent supporters of the Uniontown Golf Club in
which he took great interest, first as an active member and later through the
playing of his wife and children whose success in the local tournaments as
well as those at Pinehurst, NC gave him much pleasure.
	While definite arrangements have not been made for his funeral, it is very
probable the services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in "The
Gables" with Rev. Albert Neilson Slayton, rector of St. Peter's church,
officiating. The interment which will be made in Oak Grove cemetery, will be
private.