Beatty family scrapbook, 1790-1850 (1849-1850).

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Beatty family scrapbook, 1790-1850 (1849-1850).

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A scrapbook, consisting primarily of newspaper clippings (ca. 1840s and 1850s) detailing the role of the Beatty family in the development of Cambridge, Ohio, and Guernsey County during the early nineteenth century. Many clippings provide a firsthand account of Zaccheus Beatty's expedition to California as one of the original delegates of the Cambridge California Mining Company. The scrapbook also includes John Beatty's financial records, ca. 1790s.

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7449425

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Beatty, Zaccheus A., 1774-1835.

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Beatty, John I. (John Imlay), 1806-1885

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Merchant, of Allentown, Monmouth County, New Jersey; married Sarah McKean (1805-1884) in 1829; conducted a general store as successor to McKean & Newell (a partnership of David McKean and Samuel C. Newell) from June 1831 to October 1833, when the store was resumed by David McKean; took over McKean's general store in 1846, the year of McKean's death, and continued it until at least 1868. From the description of Account books, 1826-1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155037708 ...

Cambridge California Mining Company.

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Beatty family.

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The Beatty family was one of the first families to settle in present day Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio. John Beatty emigrated to Cambridge from Loudoun County, Virginia in 1803. In 1809 he became Cambridge's first schoolmaster. His son, Zaccheus A. Beatty, was a landowner and was instrumental in settling Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio. Many family members held local, state, and federal public offices. Zaccheus Beatty headed the formation of the Cambridge California Mining Company, orga...