The Acolhuans: A narrative of sojourn and adventure among the mound builders of the Ohio Valley : being a free translation from the Norraena of the memoirs of Ivarr Bartholdsson
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John Beatty was an American banker and politician from Sandusky, Ohio, who served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Background
John Beatty was born on December 16, 1828, near Sandusky, Ohio, the son of James and Elizabeth (Williams) Beatty. His grandfather, John Beatty, born in Ireland, located in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1796, later moving to New London. In 1815 he led a group from Connecticut into the Western Reserve, settling near the present site of Sandusky, Ohio.
Education
Young John received a fair education in the common schools.
Career
John Beatty moved to Cardington in 1854, where he and his brother William opened Beatty Brothers' Bank, conducting the business under that name until 1863, when it was incorporated as the First National Bank. Beatty took an active interest in public affairs, but though more or less identified with local politics, did not hold office until 1860. From his grandfather, who was an Ohio leader of the antebellum schism in the Methodist Church and a staunch antislavery man of the James G. Birney school, young Beatty acquired his first political tenets and adhered to them through life. In 1852 he supported John P. Hale for the presidency; in 1856 he cast his vote for John C. Fremont. In 1860 he was the Republican presidential elector for the 13th (Ohio) congressional district.
In April 1861 Beatty organized a company, led it to Camp Dennison at Columbus, and when it was incorporated in the 3rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry became its captain. On April 27, 1861, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. After a short period of training he accompanied his command to western Virginia where he served in the forces under Gen. McClellan. In November 1861, Beatty, with his regiment, was transferred to Kentucky and on February 12, 1862, was made colonel. In the spring of 1862 the regiment became a part of the command of Gen. O. M. Mitchell and participated in an extended raid into Tennessee and northern Alabama.
When Bragg began his movement through Kentucky in the summer of 1862, Beatty's regiment marched with Buell's pursuing army and in October participated in the bloody battle of Perryville. On December 26, 1862, Beatty was assigned to a brigade command and was engaged in the four-day battle at Murfreesboro, December 29, 1862-January 2, 1863, during which he had two horses shot under him. On March 12, 1863, he was promoted to brigadier-general, to rank from November 29, 1862, in recognition of his gallant conduct at Murfreesboro. Leading his brigade during the Tullahoma, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga campaigns, he commanded the first of Thomas's corps to cross Lookout Mountain. Following Grant's defeat of Bragg at Missionary Ridge, Beatty's command accompanied Sherman on his march to Knoxville, Tennessee, for the relief of Burnside's besieged command.
On January 28, 1864, Beatty resigned from the army and returned to his banking business in Cardington so as to allow his brother William to enter the army. He continued in the banking business and in the management of his large farm until in 1868 he was elected to the Fortieth Congress from the 8th Ohio district in place of Cornelius S. Hamilton, deceased. He took his seat on February 5, 1868; was reelected to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses; and served until March 13, 1873. He was first a member of the committee on invalid pensions, then chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds, and finally chairman of the committee on public printing. At the close of his second full term, though strongly solicited to be again a candidate for reelection, he declined.
Some of Beatty’s army friends in Columbus had urged him to come there and open a bank. This he did, organizing the Citizens' Saving Bank, which opened for business July 1, 1873. Beatty was elected president and served until July 1, 1903, when his bank was consolidated with the Citizens' Trust and Savings Bank. He retired from active business to devote his time to writing, but did not lose contact with public affairs. In 1884 he was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the nomination for governor against J. B. Foraker and later was one of the Republican presidential electors-at-large for Ohio; in 1886-1887 he served as Republican member of the state board of charities; and from 1891 to 1895 was president of the Ohio Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park Commission.
During his war service Beatty had kept a diary which he published in 1879 under the title The Citizen Soldier. Emboldened by its success, and following a natural inclination, he wrote The Belle o' Becket's Lane (1883), the scene of which is laid near his birthplace, and McLean, A Romance of the War (1904), both of them historical novels. In 1902 appeared The Acolhuans, a prehistoric novel dealing with the mound builders of Ohio. In 1894 High or Low Tariff, Which? was printed and in 1896, during the silver controversy, Beatty published his Answer to "Coin's Financial School. " John Beatty died at the age 86 in Columbus.
John Beatty was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 8th district (1868-1873); a member of the committee on invalid pensions; a chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds; a chairman of the committee on public printing; a member of the state board of charities (1886-1887); president of the Ohio Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park Commission (1891 to 1895).
Connections
John Beatty was married to Lucy Tupper of Cleveland.