BIO: George BEATTY, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 205-206.
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  BEATTY, GEORGE, youngest son of Capt. James Beatty, was born January 
4, 1781, at Ballykeel-Ednagonnel, county of Down, Ireland.  He received 
a good early education in the Latin school of John Downey, and learned 
watch and clock-making with his brother-in-law, Samuel Hill, whose 
clocks are more or less celebrated to this day.  In 1808 Mr. Beatty 
established himself in business, which he continued uninterruptedly for 
upwards of forty years.  He was an ingenious mechanician and 
constructed several clocks of peculiar and rare invention.  In 1814 he 
was orderly sergeant of Capt. Thomas Walker's company, the Harrisburg 
Volunteers, which marched to the defense of the city of Baltimore.  Mr. 
Beatty in early life took a prominent part in local affairs, and as a 
consequence, was frequently solicited to become a candidate for office, 
but he almost invariably declined.  He, nevertheless, served a term as 
director of the poor, and also as county auditor.  He was elected 
burgess of the borough on three several occasions and was a member of 
the town council several years, and, while serving in the latter 
capacity was one of the prime movers in the effort to supply the 
borough with water.  Had his suggestions, however, been carried out, 
the water-works and reservoir would have been located above the present 
city limits.  Mr. Beatty retired from a successful business life about 
1850.  He died at Harrisburg on the 10th of March, 1862, aged eighty-
one years, and is interred in the Harrisburg cemetery.  He was an 
active, enterprising and upright Christian gentleman.  Mr. Beatty was 
thrice married; married, first, May 18, 1815, by Rev. George Lochman, 
D. D., Eliza White, daughter of William White, born January 20, 1797; 
died September 10, 1817.
  Mr. Beatty, married, secondly, November 22, 1820, by Rev. George 
Lochman, D. D., Sarah Smith Shrom, daughter of Casper Shrom and 
Catharine Van Gundy, born January 15, 1796, at York, Pa.; died August 
25, 1828.
  Mr. Beatty married, thirdly, September 21, 1830, by Rev. Eliphalet 
Reed, Catharine Shrom, born December 26, 1807, at York, Pa.; died 
August 11, 1891, at Harrisburg, Pa.