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)

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."