Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry 
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

JOHN J. BEATTY, hardware merchant and present Mayor, Beardstown; 
was born in Franklin County, Pa., Oct. 22, 1846, and came West in 
1855, with Jacob Rearick, who raised him, his parents having died 
when he was an infant.  After coming to this section, he learned 
the trade of tinsmith, and in 1866 he went to Marion County, Mo., 
and worked at his trade, at Hannibal, Palmyra and Canton; also in 
Quincy.  In 1874 he returned to Beardstown, and entered the old 
firm, buying a half interest therein, the style of which has since 
been Rearick & Beatty.  They originally dealt only in stoves and 
tinware, but, about 1877, they added hardware and agricultural 
implements.  Mr. Beatty was elected Mayor in 1881, and re-elected 
in 1882, and takes considerable interest in politics.  He was 
married in Missouri, in 1873, to Miss Mary F. Pickering, of 
Canton, that State.  They have two sons living.

Beatty Rearick Pickering
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Franklin-PA Marion-MO