1755, Feb. 17Born, near Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y.1794Appointed captain, U.S. Navy1802Resigned from U.S. Navy18161819Sheriff, Philadelphia, Pa.1822, May 5Died, Philadelphia, Pa.
Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822-1893)
1822, Feb. 22Born, Washington, D.C.18421851Naval officer, U.S. Navy1849Married Mary Edwards1851Resigned from U.S. Navy18531856Appointed superintendent of Indian Affairs for California
and Nevada1861Appointed surveyor general of California and Nevada1872Purchased the Decatur House, Washington, D.C.1876Appointed minister to Austria-Hungary1893, Apr. 22Died, Washington, D.C.
Truxtun Beale (1856-1936)
1856, Mar. 6Born, San Francisco, Calif.1891Appointed ambassador to Persia 1892Appointed ambassador to Greece, Romania, and Serbia.
1894Married Harriet S. Blaine (divorced 1896)1903Married Marie Oge1936, June 2Died, Annapolis, Md.
Marie Oge Beale (1880-1956)
1880Born, California1903Married Truxtun Beale1956Bequeathed Decatur House to the National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Washington, D.C.1956, June 12Died, Zurich, SwitzerlandFrom the guide to the Beale Family Papers from the Decatur House, 1794-1957, (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)