The Boards of Trade, General Arbitrations Act and Rules of the Toronto Chamber of Arbitration: With Notes and Suggestions as to the Conduct of a Reference (Classic Reprint)
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William Henry Beatty was an American jurist and judge.
Background
William Henry Beatty was born on February 18, 1838, at Monclova, Lucas County, Ohio. His parents (Henry Oscar and Margaret Boone Beatty) were Kentuckians and soon after William Henry's birth went back to Kentucky where they remained until the boy was fifteen. They then joined the movement to California and, journeying by way of the Isthmus, reached Sacramento in 1853.
Education
When Beatty was 17 years old, he went East for his education and studied at the University of Virginia for two years, but did not receive a degree.
Career
In 1858 William returned to California to join his father, whose career had been his source of inspiration, in his practise of law. In 1863, the silver excitement drew him to Nevada, where he was appointed the first city attorney of Austin. Less than a year later, upon the admission of Nevada, he became judge of the district court of Lander County. This office he held in Lander and White Pine Counties until 1875, when he became associate justice of the supreme court of Nevada. Three years later he was made chief justice and served in this capacity for two years.
Beatty then returned to Sacramento to resume his private practise. In 1888, because of his recognized ability and experience, he was called upon to assume the position of chief justice of the State of California, left vacant by the death of Chief Justice Morrison. At the close of this term, in 1890, he was elected chief justice for the full term of twelve years and in 1902 was reelected for a second term but did not live to serve out the entire time. He died at his home in San Francisco on August 4, 1914.
During his long years of service as chief justice William Beatty had won for himself an outstanding place in the development of California jurisprudence, not only because of the clarity and soundness of his decisions, but also because of his high ideals of justice and his unswerving loyalty to the best traditions of his office.
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Personality
The more personal records of Beatty's life show him to have been a man of extremely lovable disposition and irreproachable character. Throughout his long life he knew but one fear, and that was the fear of doing an injustice to his fellow man
Connections
William Beatty was married in 1874 to Elizabeth M. , daughter of Robert Carter Love of Salisbury, North Carolina.