War of 1812 Veteran
George Beatty was born January 4, 1781, at Ballykeel-Ednagonnel, Hillsborough Parish, County Down, Ireland. He received a good early education in the Latin-school of John Downey, and learned the watch and clock-making trade 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 Captain 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 a burgess of the borough, 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 efforts 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;
m. first, May 18, 1815, by Reverend George Lochman, D. D., Eliza White, daughter of William White, b. January 20, 1797; d. September 10, 1817
m. secondly, November 22, 1820, by Reverend George Lochman, D. D., Sarah Smith Shrom, daughter of Casper Shrom and Catharine Van Gundy, b. January 15, 1796, at York, Pa.; d. August 25, 1828
m. thirdly, September 21, 1830, by Rev. Eliphalet Reed, Catharine Shrom, b. December 26, 1807, at York, Pa.; d. August 11, 1891, at Harrisburg, Pa.
Source: Pennsylvania Genealogies, Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (1881).
George Beatty was born January 4, 1781, at Ballykeel-Ednagonnel, Hillsborough Parish, County Down, Ireland. He received a good early education in the Latin-school of John Downey, and learned the watch and clock-making trade 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 Captain 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 a burgess of the borough, 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 efforts 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;
m. first, May 18, 1815, by Reverend George Lochman, D. D., Eliza White, daughter of William White, b. January 20, 1797; d. September 10, 1817
m. secondly, November 22, 1820, by Reverend George Lochman, D. D., Sarah Smith Shrom, daughter of Casper Shrom and Catharine Van Gundy, b. January 15, 1796, at York, Pa.; d. August 25, 1828
m. thirdly, September 21, 1830, by Rev. Eliphalet Reed, Catharine Shrom, b. December 26, 1807, at York, Pa.; d. August 11, 1891, at Harrisburg, Pa.
Source: Pennsylvania Genealogies, Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (1881).
War of 1812 Veteran
George Beatty was born January 4, 1781, at Ballykeel-Ednagonnel, Hillsborough Parish, County Down, Ireland. He received a good early education in the Latin-school of John Downey, and learned the watch and clock-making trade 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 Captain 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 a burgess of the borough, 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 efforts 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;
m. first, May 18, 1815, by Reverend George Lochman, D. D., Eliza White, daughter of William White, b. January 20, 1797; d. September 10, 1817
m. secondly, November 22, 1820, by Reverend George Lochman, D. D., Sarah Smith Shrom, daughter of Casper Shrom and Catharine Van Gundy, b. January 15, 1796, at York, Pa.; d. August 25, 1828
m. thirdly, September 21, 1830, by Rev. Eliphalet Reed, Catharine Shrom, b. December 26, 1807, at York, Pa.; d. August 11, 1891, at Harrisburg, Pa.
Source: Pennsylvania Genealogies, Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (1881).
George Beatty was born January 4, 1781, at Ballykeel-Ednagonnel, Hillsborough Parish, County Down, Ireland. He received a good early education in the Latin-school of John Downey, and learned the watch and clock-making trade 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 Captain 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 a burgess of the borough, 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 efforts 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;
m. first, May 18, 1815, by Reverend George Lochman, D. D., Eliza White, daughter of William White, b. January 20, 1797; d. September 10, 1817
m. secondly, November 22, 1820, by Reverend George Lochman, D. D., Sarah Smith Shrom, daughter of Casper Shrom and Catharine Van Gundy, b. January 15, 1796, at York, Pa.; d. August 25, 1828
m. thirdly, September 21, 1830, by Rev. Eliphalet Reed, Catharine Shrom, b. December 26, 1807, at York, Pa.; d. August 11, 1891, at Harrisburg, Pa.
Source: Pennsylvania Genealogies, Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (1881).
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