Beatty, Thomas

BEATTY

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/26/2019 at 22:47:20

Thomas Beatty

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.118, James Twp.)
Thomas Beatty, farmer, P. O. Hancock, was born in Fayette County, Penn., September 25, 1845, son of William and Charlotte (Gable) Beatty, he born in Fayette County, Penn., September 4, 1814, she in Preston County, Va., now West Virginia, July 4, 1821. They are farmers, and are living in James Township. They are the parents of nine children - four sons and five daughters. Our subject received his education in his native State, and also attended school some in Muscatine County, this State. He came to James Township in 1874, and purchased 120 acres of land, eighty acres of which cost $8 per acre, and the balance $15. He made improvements on the place, and sold it in 1875 at $20 per acre. In 1877, he bought 200 acres of improved land at $22.50 per acre. In 1880, he added eighty acres of prairie land, costing $10.50 per acre, which he uses as a pasture. He added forty acres of improved land at $25 per acre in 1882, and now has a good farm of 320 acres, which is a good proof of the wisdom of Greeley's advice - "Young man, go West." Our subject is not married. He is an Odd Fellow, Valley Lodge, No. 439, and also a member of the A. H. T. S. In politics, he is a Democrat.