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William J. Beatty D.D.S |
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William J. Beatty, D. D. S. Prominent among the professional men of Butler is William J. Beatty, who has practiced dentistry for thirty-five years, twenty-nine years of which have been in this city. He is the son of Thomas S. and Jemima (Sutton) Beatty, and was born December 28, 1867, in Parkers Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. Thomas S. Beatty was born April 2, 1837, and died November 18, 1899. His wife was born February 15, 1839, and died February 4, 1924. Both Mr. and Mrs. Beatty are buried at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania. Mr. Beatty enlisted during the Civil war on February 26, 1864, in the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers. His two brothers, George W. and Reed Beatty, were also Civil War soldiers. Thomas S. Beatty followed farming and stock raising and was a prominent man in his community. To Thomas S. and Jemima (Sutton) Beatty eight children were born: (1) Emma, married C. E. McCracken, farmer and stockman, resides near Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania; (2) William J., the subject of this sketch; (3) J. F., with the Butler Water Company, Butler; (4) Elizabeth, married John Hines, resides in Elwood City, Pennsylvania; (5) Blanche, married C. P. Rhoades, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania; (6) Stella, married O. A. Hines, oil operator, Slippery Rock; (7) Effie, deceased; and (8) Thomas E., a farmer, lives near Slippery Rock. William J. Beatty attended the public schools of Butler County, and Slippery Rock State Normal School. He then entered Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, University of Maryland, and graduated with the class of 1892, with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. He first practiced his profession at Harmony, Pennsylvania, later removed to Williamstown, Pennsylvania, and in 1897 came to Butler, where he soon built up a splendid practice, which he has continued up to the present time. He is a member of the Butler County Dental Society and served as its president in 1906 and again in 1922, and also a member of the Pennsylvania State Dental Association, the American Dental Association and the Odontological Society of Western Pennsylvania. Doctor Beatty graduated in 1897 from the Haskell Post Graduate School of Prosthetic Dentistry, Chicago, and in 1918 from the Hancock Post Graduate School of Conductive Anaesthesia of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1922 from Roach Class Partial Denture Course School of Chicago, Illinois. In 1895 Doctor Beatty was married to Miss Rose Ziegler, a daughter of David M. and Elizabeth (Stauffer) Ziegler, natives of Harmony, Pennsylvania. He died May 1, 1924, and his widow died January 1, 1925. They are buried in Zelienople, Pennsylvania. David M. Ziegler, a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Jackson Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, of pioneer ancestry. His father was David Ziegler, a son of Abraham Ziegler, who came from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and purchased a large tract of land and engaged in farming and stock raising. The maternal grandfather, Henry Stauffer, purchased his land when he came to Butler County from Abraham Ziegler, and they lived as neighbors during their entire lives. There were six children in the Ziegler family, as follows: (1) Ira S., born July 4, 1866, in Jackson Township, Butler County. At the age of nineteen years he entered the offices of the P. & W. Railroad at Harmony and learned the telegrapher’s trade. In 1888 he was appointed agent for the company at Bakertown, Pennsylvania. In 1891 he engaged in the wholesale. coal business. Later served as bookkeeper for Gelbach Brothers, Patterson Lockwood Oil Company, and the Natural Gas Company. On August 21, 1896, he purchased the Connoquenessing Valley News from the firm of Young & Stoughon. In June, 1898, he purchased the “Globe,” a weekly paper at Evans City, Pennsylvania, and continued as editor until December 28, 1901, when he disposed of his newspapers and devoted his time to his oil interests. In January, 1907, he was elected president of the First National Bank of Zelienople. In 1890 he married Miss Clara Pennell. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge. He died in 1915. (2) Fred, a train dispatcher on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, died in 1923; (3) Miles, died in 1908, was a druggist; (4) Homer, manager of the Pittsburgh Oil Well Supply Company, resides in Charleston, West Virginia; (5) Sally, married F. E. Longwell, and she is deceased; and (6) Mrs. Beatty. To Doctor and Mrs. Beatty two sons have been born:
(1) Othello Z., born October 7, 1895, graduate of Butler High School,
Allegheny College, B. S. degree in 1920, and from the College of
Dentistry, University of Pittsburgh, in 1923, with second honors,
associated with his father in practice, is a member of the several dental
societies. He enlisted in the Ordnance Department of the army at Columbus,
Ohio, attended the Ordnance School at the University of Pittsburgh, and
was sent to Camp Hancock, Georgia; ended the war interned as a foreman in
U. S. Nitrate Plant No. 1, Sheffield, Alabama. Fraternally he is
affiliated with Delta Sigma Delta, Omicron Kappa Upsilon, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, and belongs to the
American Legion. (2) Homer M., born October 11, 1906, graduate of Butler
High School, Staunton Military Academy, is with the Packard Automobile
Company, Butler. .
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