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Beattie, Elise – Beauchamp, James T

Beattie, Elise

author, poet, was born Feb. 27, 1858, in Newbury, Vt. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Echoes, which was published in 1873.

Beattie, Hamlin

manufacturer, banker, was born May 6, 1835, in Greenville, S. C. In 1859 he established the mercantile house of H. Beattie and Co.; and in 1872 organized and became the president of the National bank of Greenville, S. C.

Beattie, James Henry

civil engineer, state senator, was born Jan. 17, 1847, in Maidstone, Vt. He is a successful farmer and land surveyor of Brunswick, Vt. In 1872-74 he was a member of the Vermont house of representatives; and in 1896 was elected to the state senate.

Beattie, John

contractor, was born June 18, 1824, in Scotland. In 1855 he purchased the Harrison quarry at Fall River; and a year later opened another quarry at Niantic, Conn. Among the most notable structures he has built are the stone towers for the suspension bridge across the Kentucky river; bridges on the Wabash railroad in Indiana; and the great bridge across the Ohio, between Cincinnati and Covington.

Beatty, John

physician, congressman. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1783 to 1785; and a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1793 to 1795. He died April 30, 1826, in Trenton.

Beatty, John

banker, general, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1828, in Sandusky city, Ohio. He entered the third Ohio infantry and became brigadier-general in the civil war. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortieth congress to fill a vacancy, and was reelected to the forty-first congress.

Beatty, Martin

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1833 to 1835.

Beatty, Robert Muir

attorneygeneral, was born March 4, 1850, in Mount Morris, Ill. In 1873 he moved to Eureka county, Nev., where he served as district attorney during 1887-88, and continued to reside there until his election to the office of attorney-general in 1894.

Beatty, Samuel

farmer, soldier, was born Dec. 16, 1820, in Mifflin county, Pa. He served nearly two years in the Mexican war as first lieutenant in the third Ohio volunteers. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, commanded a division in the pattle of Stone River, and was brevetted majorgeneral in 1865. He died May 26, 1885, in Jackson, Ohio.

Beatty, William

congressman, was born in Ireland. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1841.

Beatty, William Henry

lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 18, 1838, in Lucas county, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools of California and Kentucky; and attended the university of Virginia. During 1864-75 he was judge of the district court of Nevada; justice of the supreme court of Nevada during 1875-81; and since 1889 has been chief justice of the supreme court of California.

Beauchamp, James T

lawyer, was born March 13, 1864, in Morgantown, Ky.

He graduated from the Ogden college of Bowling Green, Ky., where he has attained eminence as an able lawyer, making a specialty of equity practice in federal and state courts. After graduation he taught school for awhile, and for two years was clerk of the quarterly court of Warrenton, Ky.