Beatty-Quisenberry family.

Born in Virginia in 1777, Adam Beatty immigrated to Mason County, Kentucky, around the turn of the nineteenth century. In Kentucky, Beatty was a circuit court judge and served at least one term in the state legislature. He also ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1838. Beatty was a prominent member of the Whig Party and was a close friend and political ally of Henry Clay. On his farm, "Prospect Hill," outside of Maysville, Beatty engaged in a number of agricultural pursuits. At different times, he raised sheep, tobacco, and hemp. He married Sarah Green (sometimes Greer) in the early nineteenth century. He died in 1858.

Ormond Beatty, the son of Adam and Sarah Beatty, was born in 1815. He studied at Yale in the mid-1830s and returned to Kentucky to take a position as a professor at Centre College. In the late 1850s, he became acting president of Centre and became permanent president shortly thereafter. He married Elizabeth O. Beatty (maiden name unknown) ca. 1839. He died in 1890.

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