Bios: BEATTY, E. Calvin : Oil City, Venango Co, PA

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     E. Calvin Beatty, of Oil City, has devoted his business life to 
operations in the Pennsylvania and Mid-Continent oil fields, and his 
extensive holdings and prestige indicate that he possesses the high character 
and substantial qualities for which all the members of his family have been 
distinguished, as well as the discernment necessary to the efficient 
administration of his various properties.  The Beattys, father and sons, have 
contributed materially to progress in the conduct of the oil industry no less 
than to its expansion, their operations representing an appreciable share in 
its continued growth...
    E. Calvin Beatty was born March 10, 1860, on his father's farm in Mercer 
county, Pa., in a log house standing near the Craig school house.  He moved 
with his parents to Rouseville March 27, 1867, and received his education in 
the public schools of that borough.  He began work in the oil fields at such 
an early age that he witnessed practically all of the development of the 
industry, which had hardly departed from the crude first methods in his 
boyhood.  When twelve years old he worked in the power house on his father's 
production reversing the engine when it was used in "pulling" a well, a 
process done away with by the invention of the reverse action on steam 
engines, and he became familiar with all the ordinary duties about the wells 
within the next few years.  In 1879 he was emplooyed on the Quintuple tract 
near Song Bird, in the Bradford field, by the E. Strong Company.  In 1884 he 
became a member of the Oil City Oil Exchange, upon which he operated 
profitable until the next year.  But speculation  in pipe line certificates 
had declined and he resumed activities as an operator, in which capacity he 
has since been most prominently associatied with the oil business.  From 1884 
he was in partnership with O. H. Stron and his brother H. B. Beatty under the 
firm name of H. B. Beatty & Company, having a tract of 150 acres at Tiona, in 
Warren count, where they brought in some very good wells, E. C. Beatty and 
his father-in-law, William Helm, eventually taking over this property, which 
they have worked as Beatty & Helm.  Mr. Beatty has also been interested with 
the firm known as the Helm, Meley Company in operations in Warren county.  He 
has also been engaged in gas production, but an unfortunate investment in 
that line a few years ago swept away his accumulations, leaving him to start 
life over again.  However, his experience led him into profitable oil 
operations in which he has more than retrieved his losses, his holdings in 
the shallow sand development in Oklahoma proving highly remunerative.  He 
originally had eight hundred acres in that territory, near Nowata, but he has 
been selling gradually, still retaining ninety acres in fee, with 
twenty-seven producing wells.  For a number of hears Mr. Beatty was manager 
of the Oakwood Farm & Garden Company, whose property in Cranberry township, 
near Oil City, ranks with the leading horticultural establishments of the 
United States, its shipments of cut flowers reaching enormous proportions.  
He owns and manages a fine truck farm in Dorchester county, Md., on the "East 
Shore" near Chesapeake Bay, having acquired 180 acres in two pieces, all of 
which is under cultivation.  There are fifty-five acres in wheat.  He spends 
the summers there with his family.
     On Jan. 22, 1884, Mr. Beatty was married at Tidioute, Pa., to Barbara 
Ida Elizabeth Helm, who was born July 19, 1864, daughter of William Helm, and 
they are the parents of the following children:  
Elliott Braham, born Nov. 29, 1884,..; 
Mabel Alicia, born Jan. 3, 1886, ..; 
Maude Irene, born Dec. 2, 1888, ..; 
Vina Marguerite, born Sept, 22, 1895..; 
Clara Barbara, born April 16, 1898, ..; 
Marshall Helm, born June 29, 1903,..; 
Robert Bruce, born Aug. 3, 1904,.. 
The family have lived in Oil City since 1888, ...  Mr. Beatty is a 
prominent Odd Fellow, having been a member of Oil City Lodge, No. 589, for 
over thirty years and treasurer of that body for several years.  Politically 
he is a Republican.

Venango County, Pennsylvania Her Pioneers and People, p. 547