Ebenezer Calvin Beatty and Barbara Ida Elizabeth Helm
Husband Ebenezer Calvin Beatty 1 2 3
Born: 10 Mar 1860 - Mercer Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: 1943 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
Father: Ebenezer S. Beatty (1822-1901) 1 3 5 6 Mother: Agnes Semple Braham (1825-1909) 1 3 5 6
Marriage: 22 Jan 1883 or 1884 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 3 4
Wife Barbara Ida Elizabeth Helm 3 4
Born: 19 Jul 1864 - near Tionesta, Forest Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: 1943 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
Father: William Helm (1842-1908) 3 4 Mother: Catherine Ellen Woods (1844-Aft 1919) 3 7
Children
1 M Elliott Braham Beatty 3 4
Born: 29 Nov 1884 3 4 Christened: Died: 1952 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
2 F Mabel Alicia Beatty 3 4
Born: 3 Jan 1886 3 Christened: Died: 19 Oct 1927 3 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
3 F Maude Irene Beatty 3 4
Born: 2 Dec 1888 3 4 Christened: Died: 1955 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
4 F Vina Marguerite Beatty 3 4
Born: 22 Sep 1895 3 4 Christened: Died: Buried:
5 F Clara Barbara Beatty 3 4
Born: 16 Apr 1898 3 4 Christened: Died: Buried:
6 F Eleanor Calvine Beatty 3
Born: 26 May 1901 3 Christened: Died: Jan 1903 3 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PASpouse: Did Not Marry
7 M Marshall Helm Beatty 3 7
Born: 29 Jun 1903 3 7 Christened: Died: Sep 1970 - ? Oil City, Venango Co, PA Buried:Spouse: Lois K. Weiser ( - ) Marr: 1936 - ? Venango Co, PA
8 M Robert Bruce Beatty 3 7
Born: 3 Aug 1904 3 7 Christened: Died: 1947 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA
General Notes: Husband - Ebenezer Calvin Beatty
He was born on his father’s farm in Mercer County, PA, in a log house standing near the Craig schoolhouse. He moved with his parents to Rouseville March 27, 1867, and received his education in the public schools of that borough. He began work in the oil fields at such an early age that he witnessed practically all of the development of the industry, which had hardly departed from the crude first methods in his boyhood. When twelve years old he worked in the power house on his father’s production, reversing the engine when it was used in “pulling” a well, a process done away with by the invention of the reverse action on steam engines, and he became familiar with all the ordinary duties about the wells within the next few years. In 1879 he was employed on the Quintuple tract near Song Bird, in the Bradford field, by the E. Strong Company. In 1884 he became a member of the Oil City Oil Exchange, upon which he operated profitably until the next year. But speculation in pipe line certificates had declined and he resumed activities as an operator, in which capacity he was thereafter most prominently associated with the oil business.
From 1884 he was in partnership with O. H. Strong and his brother H. B. Beatty under the firm name of H. B. Beatty & Company, having a tract of 150 acres at Tiona, in Warren County, where they brought in some very good wells, E. C. Beatty and his father-in-law, William Helm, eventually taking over this property, which they have worked as Beatty & Helm. Mr. Beatty was also interested with the firm known as the Helm, Meley Company in operations in Warren County. He was also engaged in gas production, but an unfortunate investment in that line at one time swept away his accumulations, leaving him to start life over again. However, his experience led him into profitable oil operations in which he more than retrieved his losses, his holdings in the shallow sand development in Oklahoma proving highly remunerative. He originally had eight hundred acres in that territory, near Nowata, but he sold gradually, retaining ninety acres in fee, with twenty-seven producing wells. For a number of years Mr. Beatty was manager of the Oakwood Farm & Garden Company, whose property in Cranberry Township, near Oil City, ranked with the leading horticultural establishments of the United States, its shipments of cut flowers reaching enormous proportions. He owned and managed a fine truck farm in Dorchester County, MD, on the “East Shore” near Chesapeake Bay, having acquired 180 acres in two pieces, all of which was under cultivation. There were fifty-five acres in wheat. He spent the summers there with his family. [CAB, 547]
The family lived in Oil City, PA, after 1888, and for a number of years have occupied a home at No. 517 West Third Street, in the Fourth ward, one of the most attractive residences in that desirable location. Mr. Beatty was a prominent Odd Fellow, having been a member of Oil City Lodge, No. 589, for over thirty years and treasurer of that body for several years. Politically he was a Republican.
General Notes: Wife - Barbara Ida Elizabeth Helm
As a resident of Oil City, the family home for many years, she took an active interest in the institutions of the community, its civic affairs and in public service through the organizations with which she was affiliated. She was a member of the Oil City Belles Lettres Club, the Oil City Federation and Allied Organizations, the Venango County Federation and Allied Organizations, Putnam King Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Victorian Circle of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. By virtue of her position in the life of northwest Pennsylvania, she was appointed to the board of the Polk State School for the Feeble-Minded, on which she served twelve years. She was a Republican in politics and a member of Trinity Methodist Church in Oil City.
1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1137.
2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 545.
3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 438.
4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 547.
5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 398.
6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 546.
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Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 548.
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