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Source for:   Richard Alexander Beatty,   23 FEB 1859 - 1920         Index

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Family Histories: Baird, Holcomb, Goddard, Adams, Lewis, McClurken, ..., (State of Illinois: Illinois Society, D.A.R. 1950). page 16

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Headstone of Rose indicates "Widow of Senator Richard A Beatty"

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Page:   Richard Beatty Rose McClurkin 6/15/1904

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Text:   February 23, 1859, on a farm near White Oak Springs, Butler County, Pa. The Biographical Annuls of Ohio 1906-7-8. page 393

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Text:   Hon. Richard Alexander Beatty was born at White Oak Springs, Butler county, Pa., Feb. 23, 1859.

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Text:   Richard Beatty

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Text:   "HON. RICHARD A. BEATTY of Bowling Green former state senator, is widely known in Northwest Ohio and in several other states on account of his prominent associations with the oil industry. Since early boyhood he has been identified in some way or other with oil operations, beginning back in Western Pennsylvania, where he was born.
Mr. Beatty was first elected a member of the State Senate in 1905, taking office January 5, 1906, and serving six years. He represented in the Senate the five counties of Wood, Henry, Fulton, Putnam and Hancock. During that time he distinguished himself by his leadership in the legislative program and especially by the constructive work he did in behalf of various state institutions and affairs and the capable manner in which he safeguarded the integrity of the state's fiscal management.
He was chairman of the banks and banking committee, member of the finance committee, chairman of the public works committee, and on the mining, fees and salaries, and during his second term was a member of seven committees, on five of which he had had a place during his first term. It was due to Senator Beatty that the bill was passed through the Senate abolishing the fee system and placing all county offices on a strictly salary basis. This eliminated one of the most pregnant sources of graft, and he introduced the graft resolution and was chairman of that committee, which investigated the state graft among officials and led to the indictment of three and conviction of two. Senator Beatty introduced the bill to establish the State Normal School at Bowling Green and one in the eastern pa of the state. This bill was No. 8 on the Senate calendar during the first session, and encountered almost constant opposition, but Senator Beatty succeeded in keeping it from oblivion and during the second session it was the last bill to be put through. He also secured the passage of the banks and banking bill known as the Thomas Bill. Mr. Beatty is an expert accountant, and his training and experience in that line served him well during his senatorial term. He uncovered many loose and inefficient systems in the conduct of state affairs, and his work was especially valuable in placing the banking institutions of the state on a sound basis and ridding the business of some unscrupulous characters.
For years Senator Beatty has figured as a leader in the temperance and, prohibition movement both in his home state and in the nation at large. He concerned himself actively with the temperance program in the Senate, and had much to do with securing the passage of the Atkins and Rose bills. Another measure for which he deserves credit is the passing of the bill appropriating $30,000 for the construction of the Fort Meigs Monument and the purchase of Camp Perry, considered one of the finest rifle ranges in the world. Another was the bill providing for the reorganization of the state militia and the appropriation for the Sixth Regiment Armory at Bowling Green. Throughout his six years in the State Senate Mr. Beatty was continually busy with something that was important and connected directly with the welfare of the state and its larger institutions. He also served in the Constitutional Convention, and there impressed his ability upon some of the articles which are written into the fundamental law of the state.
Mr. Beatty is a man of collegiate education and is also what might be called a man of large affairs. He was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1859, and practically grew up in the oil business. He had considerable experience in the oil fields of Western Pennsylvania before he came to Bowling Green in 1895. He arrived in Northwest Ohio when the oil producing industry was at its height. He was himself active in the production side of the business and for many years has conducted a successful oil brokerage business. It would be a conservative estimate to place the deals which he has handled at a value of $15,000,000. As an oil man his reputation is by no means confined to Ohio. He has taken an active part in the development of some of the pioneer oil fields of Kentucky, owning an interest in the Irving and the Knox County pools in that state. The better to look after his oil interests outside of Ohio, he maintains an office at Winchester, Kentucky, and another at Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Formerly he owned a large amount of oil property in Oklahoma.
His father, William A. Beatty, was a successful oil operator in Butler County, Pennsylvania. William A. Beatty was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1822 and was of prominent Scotch ancestry. He was liberally educated in Edinburgh College, and studied law at London. Grandfather Richard Beatty was a gallant soldier of the English Empire, fought under the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, where he commanded a division as a major general. During his army service he lost an arm and a leg, and was subsequently granted by the King of England an estate at Belfast, Ireland, where he lived for many years and where he died in 1830, when past fifty. Many of his descendants and kinsmen were English soldiers. A son and a son-in-law lost their lives at Lucknow during the Indian rebellion.
When a boy, William A. Beatty came to America, locating first at Quebec. He afterwards moved to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was a man of high scholastic attainments and is said to have compiled an arithmetic for use in the Irish schools. In Pittsburg he married Mary Ann Coulter, who was born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1826 and was of a long line of Irish merchants. She came to the United States when a young woman. After their marriage William A. Beatty and wife located on a farm at White Oak Springs in Butler County, not far from the City of Franklin. Their home was a fine one and among other features it possessed eleven springs. William A. Beatty and wife lived there for many years, and after oil was discovered he did considerable development work. He never lost his zest for travel and in later years he went to nearly every corner of the earth and his death occurred in South Africa about 1884.
Senator Beatty married his first wife in Pennsylvania, Minerva Cassidy. She was a native of Pennsylvania. She and her husband lived some years at Bradford, that state, and she died four months after they came to Bowling Green. She was then thirty-eight years of age. The one child of this union is Ada M., who was educated in the Bowling Green High School and studied music in Oberlin College and for three years was under the instruction of the noted Professor Sherwood of Chicago. She is now the wife of E. M. Rose of Cleveland and they have a son, Edward.
Mr. Beatty married his second wife at Princeton, Indiana. Her maiden name was Rose McClurkin. She was born at Princeton, Indiana, was educated there, in the Woman's College at Oxford, Ohio, and also at Weston. She took her final degree in the University of Michigan. Mrs. Beatty is a woman of thorough culture, of wide reading and acquaintance with the world's best works of art and literature. For some years before her marriage she was a teacher of languages and ancient history at Madison, Wisconsin, and Princeton, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Beatty have one daughter, Gene Virginia, now seven years of age. Through inheritance and under capable training she has manifested some remarkable intellectual talents. She is already a student of the languages and history and quite well informed on current events and has a library of her own consisting of 100 volumes or more.
Bowling Green is a city of beautiful homes, and among them one of the best in point of architectural design and solid comforts is that of Mr. and Mrs. Beatty. It is a large brick residence on an elevation on North Grove Street and adds much to the distinction of that locality as a residence center. Mr. Beatty has filled all the offices in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is prominent in Masonry and was eminent grand commander six years of the Knights of St. John and Malta being a delegate to the World's Grand Lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Beatty are prominent members of the Presbyterian Church. She is chairman of the King's Daughters of Wood County, is active in the local suffrage movement and more recently has given much of her time and social leadership to the American Red Cross.

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Page:   Richard A Beatty 13 January, 1920

Text:   SENATOR BEATTY DIED IN THE WEST
Popular Bowling Green Oil Broker and Producer Passed Away Monday Afternoon at San Diego, Calif.
Earl D. Bloom today received a telegram from Mrs. R. A. Beatty from San Diego, Calif., stating that her husband, former. Senator R. A. Beatty, of this city, had died there Monday afternoon. The cause of his death was not stated; but it is presumed to have been due to bronchial pneumonia. Mr Bloom received word a few days ago that the Senator was suffering from that trouble and that his heart action had not been right since he went to California for the benefit of his health about the middle of December. His journey thirther, had come after several months of illness at his home on North Grove street, this city.
Mrs. Beatty will wire Mr. Bloom later regarding funeral arrangements.
Richard Alexander Beatty was born February 20 1S590, at Harrisville, Pa., being in the 61st year at the time of his death, and received his education in the high school there. He was married in 1878 to Miss Minerva Cassiday, who preceded him to the grave. leaving him a daughter, Addie, who is the wife of Edward M. Rose, of Cleveland. His second wife was Miss Rose M. McClurkin, who, with their little daughter, Jean, survives him.
Senator Beatty got into the oil business; early in life both as a broker and a producer. He possessed shrewdness and judgment regarding oil properties and, enjoying the merited confidence of the public, he was especially successful in the brokerage business. He came to this city more than twenty years ago and his energy and judgment soon made him one of the leading oil men of the community. The largest oil deals of past years in this vicinity were made through him. Later he operated he in the Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma fields, and for the past three years he had been engaged in the business in Kentucky where success continued to shine upon him.
While a citizen of Bowling Green, he identified himself with its commercial interests. he was for many years a director in the Old First National Bank. In getting the Normal College located here he was a very active factor. Politically he was a Democrat; but he was so popular; that he was given a large vote for state senator of this district. As senator in 1905-l1, he took a leading position in the legislature, championing school-book reform, prohibition, and other good measures. At one time he was mentioned prominently in connection with the governorship of the state. He was one of the two Wood county representatives in the State Constitutional Convention of l9l2. He was a member of the Elks' 1odge here and of the Presbyterian church.
Senator Beatty numbered his friends by the hundreds. He was possessed of a warmth of affection and kindliness of manner which won and held such. They have grieved over his illness; and they will sympathize with his bereaved family as only those can sympathize who have a deep sense of personal loss.

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Page:   83rd General Assembly, Regular Session

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Page:   Richard A Beatty
Artie Romero Email. 6/11/2011

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Page:   6/13/1961, page 1

Text:   Mrs. Rose Beatty Still Active After Retirement
By BETTY KETCHEN
Staff Writer
Although now an octogenarian who has formally retired after spending most of her lifetime in public service, Mrs. Rose McClurkin Beatty, 84, still actively serves the public by visiting shut-in persons and participating in various local civic organizations.
Mrs. Beatty is also an avid supporter of showing respect and honor for the dead, especially for those men and women who died while fighting for our country.
She regrets very much not hearing of any local church or civic services whatsoever held here on Memorial Day this year in honor of our dead servicemen, and stated that her mother, who had been a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, was the person who first promoted a more dedicated observance of Decoration Day in Princeton.
Mrs. Amanda Howe McClurkin, Mrs. Beatty's mother, worked in a Louisville hospital for veterans during the Civil War, and was the first northern woman to step on land at Vicksburg after the surrender there, having gone there from Louisville on a hospital ship after the surrender, Mrs. Beatty stated. Mrs. Beatty's mother died of pneumonia when Rose was 7 years old.
Mrs. Beatty went on to say that when she was a child, Memorial Day was observed much more formally in Princeton than it is at the present time.
The Sunday preceding Memorial Day, she stated, a sacred service was always held in one of the local churches. Then on Memorial Day, all local school children at that time, dressed in their Sunday best and led by the Princeton City Band, would assemble in their respective rooms and then march to the Oddfellows and Warnock cemeteries (the largest cemeteries in existence here then) to pay tribute to Princeton's deceased servicemen. All living war veterans, sporting their complete uniforms, would accompany the children, she related, and each child would carry a bouquet of flowers to place on a grave, and a miniature American flag. G.A.R. members would place a flag on each grave preceding the ceremony. Following the grave decorating ceremony, "Taps" was sounded over the graves, and everyone would then 'march to either the courthouse lawn or Euterpoe Hall, a local opera house located upstairs in a building just south of the present Gilbert-Stephens store, to hear prominent speakers. She related that empty chairs were placed on the stage of the opera house in honor of deceased G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) members, and little girls would then go forth and place bouquets on each chair in memoriam. Her father, J. C. McClurkin. was a Civil War veteran, and she always made it a practice to return to Princeton each Memorial Day to pay respect to her deceased parents from the years 1904-1947 when she resided away from here,' Mrs. Beatty said.
Mrs. Beatty was born April 19, 1877, about four miles southwest of Princeton in what was then called the White Church Community, now Columbia.
She attended the old Marsh Creek school and the Seminary which was located where the city's present high school now stands. The Seminary, she related, was Princeton's only school at that time.
In 1892, she and her sister, the late Elizabeth McClurkin Bahrenburg, entered the Western Female Seminary in Oxford, Ohio, and Mrs. Beatty graduated from there in 1897 when the institution became known as the Western College. She received her bachelor of arts degree in 1900 from the University of Michigan, and then taught history for a year in Covington, Ind., before going to Racine, Wisc., where she also taught school until 1902 when she returned to Princeton. She taught history and English here from 1902 until 1904 at the local high school which was then located in the present Lowell grade school building.
In June, 1904, she left Princeton to reside in Bowling Green, Ohio, after her marriage to Richard A. Beatty who had been here dealing as an oil producer and broker. Their daughter, Jean Beatty, now supervisor of program planning in a foods establishment at New Orleans, was born in 1909. After Mr. Beatty died in 1920 in San Diego, Calif., his widow began to travel all over the country.
She first lived in Kentucky where she settled her late husband's oil business, and then engaged in selling copies of an eight-volume series of the Bible called 'The Book of Life." Later she worked as assistant manager for a Pittsburgh firm selling "The World Book Encyclopedia," and then went to Los Angeles where she also worked as manager of a book firm and trained other salespeople.
After managing a tea room in Bowling Green, Ohio, for about nine months, she moved to Columbus, 0., where she resided for about three years before accepting employment from Ginn & Co. school book publishers for whom she traveled and sold commencement invitations to schools. She later sold invitations in Cleveland and drove all over Ohio as a traveling saleswoman.
In 1932 she was appointed Superintendent of the Girls Industrial School, a state training school for delinquent girls in Delaware, Ohio, after qualifying highest on that state's civil service exam for the position. She served as Superintendent of the institution for approximately nine years, and reported that during that time, 86 per cent of the girls returned to society "made good." This was the 'highest record attained by any such training school in the United States at that time. She also related that during her nine years as supervisor there, she never once received a bit of impudence from any of the girls.
When she retired, the institution housed 550 delinquent girls and 130 employes, Mrs. Beatty said. The housing limit there now is 300 girls whose ages range from 12 to 18. Mrs. Beatty related that an academic school and a hospital with three graduate nurses was available and every year a class of girls graduated from high school there. A physician always came when needed and twice a week regularly. No limitations were made as to their length of stay at the institution, and the judge who sent a girl there could have nothing to say about her care or her dismissal from the school after she was once committed to the State of Ohio, Mrs. Beatty added. Seventeen buildings, including a farm complete with horses and chickens were available for use during Mrs. Beatty's supervision at the school. Alter leaving Delaware, Mrs. Beatty went to Cleveland for a six months' rest before going its Tullahoma, Tenn., where she served as principal and librarian of the academic school for approximately 3 years. After resigning there, she took her granddaughter and went to Boston where she enrolled the child in an Episcopal school. She then worked in the Women's Reformatory at Framingham, Mass for a year about the end of the war. After working at the reformatory, she returned to Tennessee and worked as principal of the academic school there again, before retiring formally from teaching in 1947 when she returned to Princeton to live permanently after several months' vacation in Florida.
For three or four years after her return to Princeton, she was district manager of sales of the "World Book Encyclopedia" from here, operating in 22 counties, and also hired and trained other salespeople for the firm.
Since that time she has been of great service to her community by visiting shut-in persons, and has accomplished distinguished work as historian for the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is also active in the local Coterie literary club and in various organizations connected with the First Presbyterian Church.
At the recent 50th anniversary celebration of the local DAR chapter, Mrs. Beatty was presented with a lovely patriotic emblem pin and a carnation corsage for her outstanding accomplishments as historian of the chapter.
Mrs. Beatty has served as historian of the local organization for approximately four years, and also holds the honor of being the eldest member.
She stated that she has no prejudice whatsoever concerning political parties, and considers herself a "Mugwump." After having worked in three states for both the Democrat and Republican parties, Mrs. Beatty concluded that she considers one politician no different from another.

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Page:   Richard A Beatty 13 January, 1920

Text:   SENATOR BEATTY DIED IN THE WEST
Popular Bowling Green Oil Broker and Producer Passed Away Monday Afternoon at San Diego, Calif.
Earl D. Bloom today received a telegram from Mrs. R. A. Beatty from San Diego, Calif., stating that her husband, former. Senator R. A. Beatty, of this city, had died there Monday afternoon. The cause of his death was not stated; but it is presumed to have been due to bronchial pneumonia. Mr Bloom received word a few days ago that the Senator was suffering from that trouble and that his heart action had not been right since he went to California for the benefit of his health about the middle of December. His journey thirther, had come after several months of illness at his home on North Grove street, this city.
Mrs. Beatty will wire Mr. Bloom later regarding funeral arrangements.
Richard Alexander Beatty was born February 20 1S590, at Harrisville, Pa., being in the 61st year at the time of his death, and received his education in the high school there. He was married in 1878 to Miss Minerva Cassiday, who preceded him to the grave. leaving him a daughter, Addie, who is the wife of Edward M. Rose, of Cleveland. His second wife was Miss Rose M. McClurkin, who, with their little daughter, Jean, survives him.
Senator Beatty got into the oil business; early in life both as a broker and a producer. He possessed shrewdness and judgment regarding oil properties and, enjoying the merited confidence of the public, he was especially successful in the brokerage business. He came to this city more than twenty years ago and his energy and judgment soon made him one of the leading oil men of the community. The largest oil deals of past years in this vicinity were made through him. Later he operated he in the Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma fields, and for the past three years he had been engaged in the business in Kentucky where success continued to shine upon him.
While a citizen of Bowling Green, he identified himself with its commercial interests. he was for many years a director in the Old First National Bank. In getting the Normal College located here he was a very active factor. Politically he was a Democrat; but he was so popular; that he was given a large vote for state senator of this district. As senator in 1905-l1, he took a leading position in the legislature, championing school-book reform, prohibition, and other good measures. At one time he was mentioned prominently in connection with the governorship of the state. He was one of the two Wood county representatives in the State Constitutional Convention of l9l2. He was a member of the Elks' 1odge here and of the Presbyterian church.
Senator Beatty numbered his friends by the hundreds. He was possessed of a warmth of affection and kindliness of manner which won and held such. They have grieved over his illness; and they will sympathize with his bereaved family as only those can sympathize who have a deep sense of personal loss.

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Text:   THIRTY-THIRD DISTRICT
Composed of the counties of Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Putnam and Wood.
RICHARD A. BEATTY was born February 23, 1859, on a farm near White Oak Springs, Butler County, Pa. He is of Scotch-Irish descent. He attended public schools until he was thirteen years old, and graduated from Harrisville High School at seventeen, married at 19. Left home without a dollar and worked in oil fields as a pumper at $60 per month for three months. Went to Big Shanty, McKean County, Pa., and engaged in grocery business with $10 capital. He built a cheap store room, and stocked up on credit In 1880. After being in this business for eighteen months he took an interest in an oil lease, and made money for two years. He then engaged in the drug business at Bradford, Pa., up to 1886, when he devoted all his time to oil interests until he sold his holdings in 1890.
He traveled extensively for one year when he made contract to sell goods on the road for a wholesale stationery house of Rochester, N. Y.
In 1893 he again entered the oil fields, operating in Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia, but was not successful, and lost all he had. In 1894 he moved to Bowling Green, where he now resides, and again made money in oil fields. In 1896 he went broke a second time and for three months had nothing. In 1897 he started again, this time as an oil broker and producer. In this he was most successful. Became a stock broker, and did business in all parts of the United States. Became a manufacturer of Safety Steel Derricks at Deshler, Ohio. Is now one of the directors of the First National Bank, of Bowling Green, Ohio. He promoted the L. E. and B. G. Electric Railway, and is one of its principal stockholders.
Mr. Beatty is a lifelong Democrat, casting his first vote for Grover Cleveland in 1884, and has voted for all Democrats since that time. Mr. Beatty was never a candidate for public office until 1905, when he was elected to the Ohio Senate from a Republican District. He has always been a generous contributor in political campaigns, even though not a candidate. His wife, one daughter and himself constitute his family. As Senator Mr. Beatty has had much to do with the important legislation enacted. He was chiefly instrumental in securing the repeal of the inheritance tax law.

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Text:   HON. RICHARD A. BEATTY,
The Senator from Wood county, who has the honor of representing in part the Thirty-third district, came to the Senate without any previous legislative experience, but in his first term impressed all with a high regard for his worth as a member of that body and a citizen. His record is above reproach, and during his service he stood sponsor to much excellent legislation.
Hon. Richard Alexander Beatty was born at White Oak Springs, Butler county, Pa., Feb. 23, 1859. His father was William Beatty, born in Scotland, who when but a few weeks old was taken to Belfast, Ireland, where he lived until he came to America in 1845, and settled in Butler county, Pa. His mother, Mary Jane Coulter, was a native of Dublin, Ireland, came to this country in 1844, and settled in Pittsburg, Pa.
Senator Beatty lived the life of a farmer's boy until he reached the age of 16 years, then going to the country and high schools and graduated at Harrisville, Pa. He afterward took a course in pharmacy at Buffalo, N. Y., and went into the drug business at Bradford, Pa. Soon after the oil business engaged his attention, and he began operations in that branch of industry, having been engaged in it ever since, a period of about thirty-two years. He is one of the most prominent oil operators in his section of the State, and has large interests in other parts of the country in the oil traffic.
He has been actively connected with the Democratic Party all of his life, but was never elected to an office until chosen Senator at the election in 1905. In 1878 he married Miss Minerva Cassiday, of Berkeyville, Pa., and one daughter was the result of that union. She is happily married and lives at Bowling Green, Ohio. Mrs. Beatty died in 1896, and in 1904 Senator Beatty married Miss Rose McClurkin, of Princeton, Ind.
Senator Beatty was chairman of the Committee of Banks and Savings Societies, and member of the Enrollment, Fees and Salaries, Insurance, Labor, Mines and Mining and Railroad and Telegraph, Municipal Corporations and Public Works Committees, as well as serving as one of the members of the Senate Committee charged with investigating the charges preferred by Senator Meck in relation to the Ohio public schools.
At the first session of the Assembly he introduced the bill repealing the inheritance tax law, and had it enacted into a law. In the second session he introduced the income tax bill. The law providing for the purchase of the rifle range for the Ohio National Guard at Port Clinton was the creation of Senator Beatty, and he also offered a bill providing for the filing of chattel mortgages in the office of the county recorder.