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BEATTY, John, soldier, was born near San- dusky city. Ohio. Sept. 16, l^iS. After attending the common .schools and acquiring a fair education he entered a banking liouse at Cardington. Though always more or less identified with local jx^litics. he did not hold office until 18(50, when he was made a jn-esidential elector. At the begin- ning of the civil war he entered the Union army as i^rivate in thelM Ohio infantry and won sjjeedy promotion from private to the ranks of captain, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and. in 1803, brigadier- general. He saw active service in the West Virginia. Kentucky. Tennes.see and Alabama camiviigns, and haened the fightirg at Chickamauga. In 1N(>4 he retired from the army. He was elected to a vacant seat as a representative from Ohio in the 40th Congre.ss, and was re-elected to the 41st and 42d, serving from Feb. 5, 1868, to March 13, 1871. He acted as presidential elector at large for the Republican party in 1884. He is the author of an autobiographical book entitled "The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volun- teer " (1879), and " The Belle o' Becket's Lane " (188-2).

BEATTY, Ormond, educator, was born in Mason county, Kentucky, Aug. 13, 1815 ; son of Adam and Sarah (Green) Beatty. He was grad- uated from Centre college in 1835, and after 8f>ending a year at Yale he returned to take the chair of natural and phy.sical science in the col- lege. In 1847 Centre college conferred upon him the degree of A.M., and in 1868 he received that of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey. From 1847 to 1852 he was profes.sor of mathematics. In 1870 he was elected president of the college and profe.ssor of metaphysics, and held that office until June 19. 1888. He died June 24, 1890.

BEATTY, Samuel, soldier, was born in Mifflin county, Pa.. Dec. 16, 1820, and received a com- mon scluMjl education in Jackson, Ohio. He served in the ^lexican war, was sheriff of his county in 1857 and 1859. He was made colonel of the 19th Ohio volunteers in 1861, brigadier- general in 1862, commanding a divi.sion at Stone River, Tenn., and attained the rank of brevet major-general in 1865. In 1866 he was retired, and -lied in Jackson, Ohio. May 26, 1885.

BEAUCHAMP, William, cirruit preacher, was »K>rri ia Kent county, Del., April 26, 1772, son of a Methrxlist preacher who removed to Virginia and .spttlwl on the Monongahela river in 1788. The son acquired a good education, and in 1790 taught school in Monongahela. The following year he began to preach, and in 1793 left his father's house and travelled the circuit with the presiding elder. In 1794 he joined the itinerancy, and travelled two years on the Allegliany circuit,

being ordained as deacon in 1796. He was after- wards in Pittsburg, New York, Boston, Province- town. Mass.. and in Nantucket. In 1807 he re- turned to Virginia and remained there until 1815, when he removed to Cliillicothe. Oliio, to become editor of the Western Christian Monitor, at that time the only existing Methodist periodical. In 1817 he removed to Illinois, wliere he founded a settlement, and V)uilt up tlie town of Mt. Carmel, and, .says a bioj>rapher, ".Showed him.self the truly great man in all tlie details of this new business, planning public measures and economi- cal arrangements, devising mechanical improve- ments, for which he had rare genius, directing the instruction of the youth and simplifying its modes, ministering as pastor to the congregation, and meanwiiiie advancing in his own personal studies and improvement." In 1822 he was at St. Louis, in the itinerant ministry, and in 1823 was made presiding elder of the Indiana district, which included eleven large circuits. As a preacher he was gifted with overjxjwering elo- quence, though his style was quite free from any element of the sensational, and he was designated the " Demosthenes of the West." He was the author of "Essays on the Truth of Christian Religion" (1811). He died Oct. 7, 1824.

BEAUMONT, John Q., naval officer, was born in Pennsylvania, Aug. 27, 1821. At the age of seventeen he became a midshipman in the U. S. navy, and after thirteen years of .service was pro- moted master. His next promotion occurred Aug. 29, 1855, when he was made lieutenant. He was promoted commander in 1862, and as such served on the Aroostook of the North Atlantic blockading squadron. He commanded a moni- tor in the attacks on the forts in Charleston harbor, S. C, and in' the reduction of Fort Wag- ner, and was connected with the North Atlantic squadron as commander of the Mackinaw in the two assaults on Fort Fisher. He was promoted captain in 1872. and died Aug. 2, 1882.

BEAUREGARD, Pierre Gustave Toutant, sol- dier, was b(jrii near New Orleans, La., May 28, 1818. He was graduated from West Point, July 1, 1838, was promoted 2d lieutenant 1st artillery, and transferred to the engineer corps, July 7, 1838. He was employed in construction service at Fort Adams, Barataria Bay and Fort McHenry \intil the breaking out of the Mexican war in 1845, when he was sent to superintend the construction of fortifications at Tampico, and was present at the siege of Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Chapulter)ec, and at the capture of the city of Mexico, where he was wounded while storming the "Causeway Battery," Sept. 13, 1847, For his gallantry in the.se actions he was brevetted major. He was promoted to a captaincy of engineers, March 3, 1853. At the close of the Mexican war