Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Beatty, John Jr. September 14, 1826

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JOHN PEATTY, Jr., a prominent citizen, a leading school director and a
substantial and progressive farmer of Unity township, is a son of Hamilton and
Sarah (Anderson) Beatty and was born on the farm on which he now resides in
Unity township, Westmoreland county, Pa., September 14, 1826. The Beatty family
has long been resident in Ireland, from which Benjamin Beatty (grandfather)
emigated when a boy of not more than sixteen years of age. He came to the
eastern part of Pennsylvania. It is highly probable that he served as a soldier
in the Continental army as there is still indisputable evidence in existence of
his having helped guard British prisoners in Philadelphia during the
Revolutionary war. Ho came from Adams to Westmoreland county in 1810 and settled
on the farm now owned by the subject of this sketch, he died in 1831 at the age
of eighty-six years. Hamilton Beatty, (father) was a native of Adams county,
Pa., and came with his father to Washington county in 1809.    His father
purchased in the spring of 1810 a farm of three hundred acres in Unity township,
Westmoreland county, known as the “sportsman farm.” He immediately moved on it
and built the first bank barn in the township the following year. He served as a
soldier in the war of 1812 and helped to build Fort Meigs. This farm had been
patented by James Hunter in 1790. He with his brother John purchased the farm
from his father in 1824 and at their death the subject of this sketch became the
owner. Hamilton Beatty was an industrious man, a prosperous farmer, a strong
democrat and an elder in Unity Presbyterian church for fifty-six years. He was
respected as a citizen, served his township in various local offices and died at
Beatty station July 10, 1871, at the age of eightv-five years. He was married to
Sarah, eldest daughter of Col. Anderson, September 11, 1817, by whom be bad
seven children.

    John Beatty, Jr., was reared on the farm on which be now resides. He
received his education in the common schools and Elder’s Ridge academy, Indiana
county, Pa. He commenced life as a farmer and has continued successfully in
farming till the present time. He owns the old Beatty homestead near Beatty’s
station. It contains two hundred acres of land and is in a fine state of
cultivation. Mr. Beatty is a well-read agriculturalist as well as a practical
farmer and conducts his farming operations scientifically and successfully. He
is a democrat and has served for twenty years as a school director. He is a
member of Gravel Hill Grange, No. 849, Patrons of Husbandry; Latrobe Lodge, No.
30, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and Unity Presbyterian church, of which he
served a number of years as trustee, was an active member in the erection of the
new church in 1874 and spent time and labor in preparing the ground ! and laying
out the beautiful cemetery of Unity.

    June 20, 1855, he married Eliza Jane Chambers, only daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Leasure) Chambers and sister of Eli Chambers, treasurer of
Westmoreland county (see bis sketch). To their union have been born seven
children: Charles Albert, who was a graduate of Washington and Jefferson college
and a student of Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, Pa., at the time of
bis death, and died March 31, 1882, aged twenty-five years; Lizzie Leasure,
Jessie Quindora, who died March 15, 1863, aged one year and twenty-two days;
John Hamilton, Sara Stella, Lilian May and William Chambers.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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