Education
Born in Montgomery County, Maryland, Beall graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1827.
Born in Montgomery County, Maryland, Beall graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1827.
In the 1840s he settled in Taycheedah. Between 1832 and 1856, Beall loaned the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians" delegations to Washington, District of Columbia some $3,000 for their expenses while they pursued claims against the federal government. Beall was a Democrat, and served as lieutenant governor for Nelson Dewey"s second term as governor, from 1850 until 1852.
During the American Civil War, he was a lieutenant-colonel in the 18th Wisconsin Infantry and was wounded in the Battle of Shiloh.
After recovering, he served as second-in-command of a prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, where the prisoners nicknamed him "old peg-leg" and accused him of a pattern of repeated cruelty and abuse. After briefly returning to Wisconsin after the war, Beall moved to Helena, Montana, where, on September 26, 1868, he was shot following an argument.
He is interred at Forestvale Cemetery, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, United States of America.
Beall served as a delegate to both the first and second Wisconsin Constitutional Conventions from Marquette County, one of only six men to do so (most members of the first convention declined to serve in the second).