BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Page 497.

A. WILLIAM BEATTY is the leading dealer in boots, shoes and gents' 
furnishing goods, of Flushing. Mr. Beatty is a son of William H. and Mary 
(Miller) Beatty, who are the parents of the following named children: 
Tecumseh S., a blacksmith by trade; A. William, Charles L., a professor in 
the New Orleans Commercial college; Dora, John O., Frank C. and Birdie. 
William H. Beatty came with his father's family to Ohio in 1835, his wife 
was a daughter of John and Mary Miller, Mary was born and raised in 
Harrison county, Ohio, while her parents were of German parentage. Mr. and 
Mrs. Beatty were members of the Presbyterian church of Stillwater, and Mr. 
Beatty was an elder in the same for many years, being one of the leading 
men in the church, but is now a member of the Nottingham Presbyterian 
church. His wife dying August 22, 1879, in her thirty-fourth year, Mr. 
Beatty some time after took to himself in marriage, Margaret McCleary, by 
whom he has had one child: Fannie. Mr. Beatty was for several terms trustee 
of Flushing township. He enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Eighty-
fifth Ohio volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Bell, and serving with the true 
purpose of a patriot he received his honorable discharge from service in 
June, 1865. He is a member of the Mitchell-Bethel post of the G. A. R. He 
has a farm of 120 acres in the highest state of cultivation, and is very 
successful in all his enterprises. A. William Beatty spent his boyhood on 
his father's farm, acquiring a good education, having graduated from the 
Delaware Business college at Delaware, Ohio, he taught for some time in the 
public schools. Receiving a call from the New Orleans Business college, he 
spent one year in that college as superintendent of the commercial and 
penmanship department, and assistant principal of the mathematical 
department. Retiring from the vocation of teacher, he returned home and 
engaged in the business in which he still continues, having met with the 
most gratifying success, being recognized as one of the leading business 
men of the county in his line. Mr. Beatty married Miss Laura Lafferty, July 
11, 1889. She was a daughter of Joseph and Mary Lafferty. The former was an 
old settler of Harrison county, he died March 29, 1886; the mother is still 
living. Mr. Beatty is a member of Morefield lodge of Knights of Pythias, 
also of the order of the Sons of Veterans, Camp No. 290.