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Memoriam Of Rev. Charles Clinton Beatty.....And Of His
Wife, Mrs. Hetty Elizabeth Beatty
THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY: A Bibliography & Price Guide, Compiled by
Paul E. Rieger, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1983, Pages 281-282:
New York, 1883. Press of J. J. Little & Co. Frontispiece with tissue guard,
149, plus 1 plate with tissue guard. Leather, all edges gilt. 9"x7-3/16".
Found in the Leon County Library, Tallahassee, Fl.: Transcribed by Lynn
Beatty (L132)
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Beatty (1800-82) was Presbyterian minister, serving his entire career at
Steubenville, beginning in 1823. (His predecessor ther was Obadiah Jennings) At the urging
of his wife (the second of three), Hetty, he opened the STEUBENVILLE FEMALE SEMINARY in
1829. A remarkable investor, starting only with his own ministerial salary, and giving
first one-tenth and then one-fourth of his annual income to charitable and religious
purposes, he was able to accumulate and donate nearly half a million dollars by the time
of his death. His biography here was written by Rev. James. I. Brownson and that of Hetty
(1802-76) by Rev. Alexander McCandless Reid (1827-1918), who came to Steubenville in 1856
as Beatty's associate in the Seminary, and who purchased the Seminary ten years later, at
a cost of $25,000. It may have been Rev. Beatty's age that prompted him to sell the
Seminary, or it may have been his need to raise cash, for in 1863 he had become a trustee
of Washington College, and it was his immediate offer of $50,000 if that college and
Jefferson College would unite that two years later led to the merger of WASHINGTON AND
JEFFERSON COLLEGE. Rev. Beatty's largest gift, however, was to Western Theological
Seminary, at Pittsburgh, and his Steubenville contemporaries long felt keenly disappointed
that he had not endowed upon his death - as they believed he had implied he would - the
Seminary there, which closed in 1898. However, both Rev. and Mrs. Beatty had made
contributions during their lifetime to the seminary at Pittsburgh, and in 1859
"Beatty Hall" in her honor had been built there (but it was razed the year after
her death).
Beatty's grandfather, Charles Beatty (1715-72), had come into the early west as a chaplain
in the colonial forces, and was the author of JOURNAL OF TWO MONTHS' TOUR, London, 1768.
His portrait and biography appear in Chapter III of OLD REDSTONE."
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