Background
Adam Beatty was born on May 10, 1777, at Hagerstown, Maryland, the son of an Englishman, William Beatty, and of Mary Grosh, daughter of a New York family of German extraction. In 1800 they moved to Lexington, Kentucky.
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Adam Beatty was born on May 10, 1777, at Hagerstown, Maryland, the son of an Englishman, William Beatty, and of Mary Grosh, daughter of a New York family of German extraction. In 1800 they moved to Lexington, Kentucky.
Adam studied law in Lexington with James Brown, brother-in-law of Henry Clay.
In 1802 Adam began the practise of law at Washington, Mason County, Kentucky, in 1804 married Sally Green, daughter of Capt. John Green of Mason County, and in 1811 was appointed circuit judge by Gov. Charles Scott, serving in that office until November 1823. He became a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1809 and was reelected several times. From 1836 to 1839 he was a state senator. In 1840 he served as a presidential elector, voting for Harrison. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1829 and in 1831.
From 1823 on Beatty made farming his principal business, and after the organization of the Kentucky State Agricultural Society in 1838 he was active in its affairs and became vice-president. He was greatly interested in the improvement of agriculture, studied the available American and foreign literature on the subject, and imported purebred livestock.
He was early a contributor to the agricultural press and for many years wrote often for the Kentucky Farmer and other papers. He was the author of many essays and letters on agricultural subjects, and for some of them received prizes from the Kentucky Society.
A considerable number of these essays and letters were assembled in a book first published in 1843 as Southern Agriculture, and in a revised edition as Essays on Practical Agriculture in 1844. This work includes a general article on the agriculture of Kentucky and special articles on corn, hemp, tobacco, a system of agriculture best adapted to Kentucky, rotation of crops, advantages of manufactures to agriculture, breeding horses for agricultural purposes, grass in woodlots, feeding cattle and sheep, wheat in rich vegetable soils, etc. It also contains letters to Thomas B. Stephenson on soils and grasses, and to Edmund Ruffin on soils. Beatty died at the age of eighty-one on his farm in Mason County.
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Adam Beatty was a vice-president of the Kentucky State Agricultural Society. He also became a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1809 and was reelected several times.
