Bios: BEATY, David 1811 - >1887: Warren Co, PA

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  History of Warren County, Pennsylvania
  Edited by J. S. Schenck-Assisted by W. S. Rann
  Syracuse, N. Y. -D. Mason & Co., Publishers -1887
  
  Beaty, David, was born in Beaver county, Pa., on the 26th day of October,
  1811.  His paternal ancestry is derived from Scotland.  His grandfather,
  William Beaty, emigrated from Scotland to Newburg, on the Hudson, in New
  York State, and thence removed to Beaver county, in this state, nearly
  eighty years ago.  He had a family of three daughters and four sons, of the
  latter of whom William, Jr., the eldest, was the father of David Beaty.
  William, the younger, was born in Newburg, N. Y., in 1764;  could distinctly
  remember having seen Washington;  served in the War of 1812, being stationed
  at Erie to protect the country from an apprehended invasion of the enemy,
  and died at his home in Beaver county on the 5th of June, 1859.  He was a
  farmer by occupation, a Democrat of the old school, and a consistent member
  of the Presbyterian church.  His wife, Mary, had four brothers and three
  sisters, the children of David Clark, of Irish birth and parentage.  He was
  a giant in stature, measuring six feet two and one half inches in his
  stockings.  He died in Beaver county about the year 1822.  Mary (Clark)
  Beaty died in the summer of 1868, of palsy.
  William and Mary Beaty reared a family of seven sons and six daughters.  Of
  this family of thirteen children, David Beaty was the sixth.  Just previous
  to his nineteenth birthday David Beaty came to Chautauqua county, N. Y.,
  where he remained at work on farms for four years, removing, at the
  expiration of that time, to Tionesta, Warren county, Pa.  There he engaged
  in lumbering in the forests for a period of five years, when he went to West
  Hickory, near Tidioute, and was married November 16, 1843, to Abigail MEAD,
  youngest daughter of Joseph Mead;  uniting the labors of a farmer with those
  of a former vocation.  At the beginning of the oil excitement, more than
  twenty years ago, he commenced his operations in petroleum on Oil Creek,
  eight miles south of Titusville.  This occupation gradually assumed larger
  proportions, and in time absorbed Mr. Beaty's entire time and attention.
  The material result, however, has been most gratifying.  The boy who left
  home with one dollar and seventy-five cents in his pocket, and with
  venturesome daring, walked 130 miles to the destination which he had
  selected as the field for his labors, was bound to succeed, and has
  succeeded beyond his original calculations.  After erecting and furnishing
  the buildings in which he now lives, Mr. Beaty removed hither from West
  Hickory on the 11th of March, 1873.  His home farm consists of 170 * acres,
  besides which he now owns sixty acres in one lot above here, 100 acres on
  Hatch Run, etc., making more than five hundred acres that he owns in Warren
  county, and nearly four thousand acres in Dakota.  Mr. Beaty is a stalwart
  member of the Democratic party, and a member of the Presbyterian church of
  Warren.
  Joseph Mead was born in Northunberland county, Pa., June 25, 1772;  came to
  where Meadsville now stands, when it was a wilderness, with his eldest
  brother, David Mead.  Joseph was sixteen years old at that time.  They had
  some narrow escapes.  Their father, Darius Mead, was taken prisoner by the
  Indians and killed about thirty miles from Franklin.  Joseph remained there
  one year;  returned to Northumberland, and went to school;  acquired as good
  an education as he could possibly;  was married in 1794 to Hannah Boone, a
  relative of Daniel Boone, of Kentucky;  emigrated to near Youngsville,
  Warren county, in 1799 with his brother Darius, and their families.  They
  built the first grist and saw-mill in the county.  Joseph afterward came to
  reside three miles below Warren, on the Allegheny River, and died there in
  1846.
  The family of Mr. and Mrs. Beaty consists of three sons-O. W., David W., and
  Albert B., the last named of whom died on the 20th of September, 1851.  The
  other two are still residing in Warren county.