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 his 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 1/2 acres, besides
which he now owns sixty acres in one lot above here, 100 acres on Hatch
Run, etc., making more than 500 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 Northumberland county, Pa., June 25, 1772; came
to where Meadville 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.
History of Warren County:
With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent
Men and Pioneers, J. S. Schenck, Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887.
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