Bios: BEATTY, Samuel : Venango Co, PA

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History of Venango County, Pennsylvania,  Brown, Runk & Co. 1890, p 1004

Samuel BEATTY, pumper and oil producer, was born in 1845, in the city of 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is a son of William and Mary (English) Beatty, 
of Scotch-Irish ancestry.  William Beatty was a member of a regiment that was 
raised in Pittsburgh to serve in the Mexican war and was killed in one of its 
hardest battles.  Our subject received his education in the public schools of 
his native city, and was employed in the iron mills there until March 29, 
1864, when he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixteenth Volunteers, 
and served until the close of the war.  He was wounded at Cold Harbor June 3, 
1864, and on recovering was transferred to Company I, Sixteenth Reserves.  
After being mustered out he returned to Pittsburgh and engaged in farming in 
the vicinity of that city, subsequently removing to Lawrence county.  In 
June, 1877, he came to Venango county, and engaged in coal mining for Findley 
Surrenna, and afterward worked for the Phillips Brothers, oil producers, with 
whom he remained four years.  In 1882 he entered the employ of J. N. Hovis, 
with whom he has since remained, being interested in two producing wells.  He 
was married in 1863 to Sarah B. Haslet, who died in 1872 leaving four 
children:  William J.; Andrew S.; Samuel W., and Thomas J.  In December, 
1876, he was married to Mrs. Miranda E. Jacobs nee Surrenna and by this union 
has one son, Edward E.  Mr. Beatty is a Republican and a member of John M. 
Phipps Post, G. A. R.