Ebenezer S. Beatty and Agnes Semple Braham

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Husband Ebenezer S. Beatty ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 8 Dec 1822 - the area of Harrisville, Mercer Twp, Butler Co, PA 2 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Oct 1901 - Grove City, Mercer Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Grove City, Mercer Co, PA

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         Father: Henry Beatty (Bef 1794-Bef 1883) 2
         Mother: Margaret Steintorf (      -      ) 2 3

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       Marriage: 1847 3

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Wife Agnes Semple Braham ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 18 Oct 1825 - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA 3
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           Died: 8 Aug 1909 3
         Buried:  - Grove City, Mercer Co, PA

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         Father: Samuel Braham (1789-1874) 3 5 6
         Mother: Mary Ann Patton (      -      ) 3 5

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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Sample (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Melvina Beatty ^{2 3}

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2 M Ralph S. Beatty ^{2 3}

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           Died: Bef 1919
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3 F Mary Beatty ^{2 3}

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           Died: Bef 1919
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         Spouse: Dr. James Palmer (      -      ) 3

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4 F Viola Beatty ^{2 3}

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           Died: in infancy
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5 M Henry Bruce Beatty ^{2 3}

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           Born: 16 Aug 1857 - Mercer Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: 1938
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Lucinda May Strong (1857-1914) 2 3
           Marr: 28 Jul 1879 2

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6 M Ebenezer Calvin Beatty ^{2 4 7}

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           Born: 10 Mar 1860 - Mercer Co, PA 8
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           Died: 1943
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Barbara Ida Elizabeth Helm (1864-1943) 4 8
           Marr: 22 Jan 1883 or 1884 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 4 8

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7 M John Beatty ^{2 3}

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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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8 F Agnes Beatty ^{2 3}

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         Spouse: W. I. Womer (      -      ) 3

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9 M Leroy B. Beatty ^{2 3}

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         Spouse: Mneatha Strong (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Ebenezer S. Beatty

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He was born in 1824. [HVC 1890, 1137]
He was born on the old Beatty farm near Harrisville, Butler County, PA, where he was reared. Being well educated for the times he taught school during his young manhood, from 1845 until 1851, out of school seasons occupying himself with farm work and as a cattle drover, taking stock over the old pike to Philadelphia, and fattening them in Berks County just before turning them into the market. He was in this business until 1865, and meantime, in the early sixties, became interested in a mercantile establishment at Plumer, Venango County, on Cherry run, during the erection of the Humboldt refinery, continuing to own and operate the business until 1876. The Humboldt was one of the earliest refineries in this locality, and the first pipe line ran to it, from the Miller Farm. In March, 1867, he removed his home to Venango County and became engaged in the production of oil in the vicinity of Rouseville, where the family resided, continuing to operate in that territory until 1886, in which year he returned to Butler County. From that time until his retirement in 1900 he carried on a hardware business at Harrisville, not far from the old Beatty homestead, and the closing years of his life were spent at Grove City. A man of strong character and irreproachable integrity, he filled an influential place among his fellow men, and for twenty-five years held the office of justice of the peace, serving both at Rouseville and Harrisville. He was successful in his oil ventures, which began soon after the discovery of oil in the region, acquiring his first interest in that line in the early sixties, in a production where development was started before the famous Drake well was brought in. The drilling was done by the spring-pole method, and the tubing, which was all of copper, was brought from New York. [CAB, 546]
He and his wife were members of the U. P. Church, which he served officially, and in political principle he was a Republican.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 398.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1137.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 546.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 438.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 398, 402.

6 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1063.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 545.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 547.