Beale family

Biographical Note

Thomas Truxtun (1755-1822)

• 1755, Feb. 17: Born, near Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y.
• 1794: Appointed captain, U.S. Navy
• 1802: Resigned from U.S. Navy
• 1816 - 1819 : Sheriff, Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1822, May 5: Died, Philadelphia, Pa.

Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822-1893)

• 1822, Feb. 22: Born, Washington, D.C.
• 1842 - 1851 : Naval officer, U.S. Navy
• 1849: Married Mary Edwards
• 1851: Resigned from U.S. Navy
• 1853 - 1856 : Appointed superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and Nevada
• 1861: Appointed surveyor general of California and Nevada
• 1872: Purchased the Decatur House, Washington, D.C.
• 1876: Appointed minister to Austria-Hungary
• 1893, Apr. 22: Died, Washington, D.C.

Truxtun Beale (1856-1936)

• 1856, Mar. 6: Born, San Francisco, Calif.
• 1891: Appointed ambassador to Persia
• 1892: Appointed ambassador to Greece, Romania, and Serbia.
• 1894: Married Harriet S. Blaine (divorced 1896)
• 1903: Married Marie Oge
• 1936, June 2: Died, Annapolis, Md.

Marie Oge Beale (1880-1956)

• 1880: Born, California
• 1903: Married Truxtun Beale
• 1956: Bequeathed Decatur House to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C.
• 1956, June 12: Died, Zurich, Switzerland

From the guide to the Beale Family Papers from the Decatur House, 1794-1957, (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)