"Portrait and Biographical Record of Hunterdon and Warren counties, New Jersey"
Chapman Publishing Company, New York and Chicago, 1898
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LEWIS C. BEATTY, a prominent business
man of Hope, Warren County, comes from
one of the respected old families of the county.
Here the happy days of his youth were passed,
and here, after he has spent many of the years of
his prime in the busy outside world, he has returned to quietly pass the remainder of his life.
He is unassuming in manner and not ambitious
for official distinction, preferring to attend strictly
to his own affairs, though not to the neglect of his
duties as a citizen.
The father of our subject was the late Judge
George H. Beatty, who was born near this village
in 1812. His whole life was spent in Warren
County and for several years he was the proprietor of what is now the Union Inn in Hope. Later
he settled on a farm adjacent to the town, and in
addition to cultivating the place he dealt to some
extent in cattle and livestock. He had made his
start in a financial way, in his younger days, by
his dealing in western livestock. In his political
faith he was a strong Democrat, and his first step
over the threshold of public life was during the
'40s, when his friends and neighbors elected him
to represent them in the state assembly. He
served them for one term and in 1879 he was
elected state senator for a term of three years.
About 1882 he was honored by being elected
judge of the Warren County courts, and, in short,
he was distinctively a leader in the ranks of his
party and in his time. He lived to the ripe age
of eighty-two years, dying in 1894. His father,
whose Christian name was also George, was likewise a native of this county. Judge G. H. Beatty
married a daughter of Charles Swasey, and of their
six children, four are still living, viz.: Josephine;
Marcella, wife of Joseph E. Kirk; George W., of
Pennsylvania; and Lewis C. The mother died at
the age of eighty-one years.
The birth of Lewis C. Beatty took place November 27, 1851, in the town of Hope, and here, with
his brothers and sisters, he grew to maturity, his
education being gained in the public schools. He
made several trips to the west, buying stock, and
being associated with his father in that business
for a few years in his early manhood. When he
was Hearing his majority he graduated from
Kingston Business College, where he had pursued
a practical commercial course. Afterward he obtained a position in the office of the auditor of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company in Pittsburg,
and kept that position as long as he cared to do
so, some three years. In 1S83 he was appointed
deputy in the state prison in Trenton, N. J., and
was an official in that institution for eleven
years, faithfully meeting all the requirements of
the place, and giving entire satisfaction to his
superiors. In 1S94 he returned to this, his old
home, and opened a general store in partnership
with Jacob Albert, the style of the firm being
Beatty & Albert. They keep a full line of supplies commonly found in an establishment of this
kind, and have built up a good patronage among
the people of this vicinity by their fair dealing.
Mr. Beatty uses his ballot on behalf of the nominees of the Democracy, but is not a politician in
the ordinary sense. He owns a good farm near
this town and is the executor of his father's estate.
His family were Episcopalians, but he is not
identified with the church.
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