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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 George Beatty], in Egle, William Henry. Genealogical record of the families of Beatty, Egle, Müller, Murray, Orth and Thomas. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1984)
Page 8, 1886. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 George Beatty, in Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.
pages 205-206, Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Company, 1896.
BEATTY, GEORGE, youngest son of Capt. James Beatty, was born January 4, 1781, at Ballykeel-Ednagonnel, county of Down, Ireland. He received a good early education in the Latin school of John Downey, and learned watch and clock-making with his brother-in-law, Samuel Hill, whose clocks are more or less celebrated to this day. In 1808 Mr. Beatty established himself in business, which he continued uninterruptedly for upwards of forty years. He was an ingenious mechanician and constructed several clocks of peculiar and rare invention. In 1814 he was orderly sergeant of Capt. Thomas Walker's company, the Harrisburg Volunteers, which marched to the defense of the city of Baltimore. Mr. Beatty in early life took a prominent part in local affairs, and as a consequence, was frequently solicited to become a candidate for office, but he almost invariably declined. He, nevertheless, served a term as director of the poor, and also as county auditor. He was elected burgess of the borough on three several occasions and was a member of the town council several years, and, while serving in the latter capacity was one of the prime movers in the effort to supply the borough with water. Had his suggestions, however, been carried out, the water-works and reservoir would have been located above the present city limits. Mr. Beatty retired from a successful business life about 1850. He died at Harrisburg on the 10th of March, 1862, aged eighty-one years, and is interred in the Harrisburg cemetery. He was an active, enterprising and upright Christian gentleman. Mr. Beatty was thrice married; married, first, May 18, 1815, by Rev. George Lochman, D. D., Eliza White, daughter of William White, born January 20, 1797; died September 10, 1817.
Mr. Beatty, married, secondly, November 22, 1820, by Rev. George Lochman, D. D., Sarah Smith Shrom, daughter of Casper Shrom and Catharine Van Gundy, born January 15, 1796, at York, Pa.; died August 25, 1828.
Mr. Beatty married, thirdly, September 21, 1830, by Rev. Eliphalet Reed, Catharine Shrom, born December 26, 1807, at York, Pa.; died August 11, 1891, at Harrisburg, Pa.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sergeant George Beatty, in Egle, William Henry. Notes and Queries Historical and Genealogical Chiefly Relating To Interior Pennsylvania. (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company)
page 108, 1898.
In the company of Capt. Thomas Walker, John Roberts, first a private, and George Beatty were the sergeants. The first subsequently filled many positions of trust and responsibility, both military and civil. He was admitted to the Dauphin bar in 1812, and was the father of our venerable and esteemed fellow citizen, Mr. Alexander Roberts. Mr Beatty was the father of Messrs G. Irwin and Henry J. Beatty, and of Mrs. Beverly R. Waugh, Mrs. William H. Egle, and Miss Catharine Beatty.
Book gives the following account of the unit that Sergeant Beatty belonged and participated on the march from Pennsylvania to help defend Baltimore.
"First Brigade of Pennsylvania: Lawyers, doctors, clergymen, tradesmen, mechanics, and laborers vied each other in the discharge of duty, and on Friday the 16th day of September 1814, the First Brigade of Pennsylvania, under the command of General Forster, of Harrisburg, struck its tents and took up the line of for the relief of Baltimore. A resume of each day's march is appended. First day, a march of fourteen miles was made. It must be remembered that in those days there were few turnpike roads and fewer bridges. Saturday, the 17th, Stone Tavern was reached, a distance of twenty-two miles; Sunday, 18th, eight miles to Govan's Tavern Monday; the 19th, Camp Fairfield, about a mile of Baltimore was reached. Then a halt of a few days, and on Monday, the 26th, the brigade marched nine miles to Elk Ridge to meet the British on the Patuxent. Tuesday, the 27th, it encamped at Camp Springfield, adjoining Baltimore on its eastern boundary."
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