GEORGE F. BEASLEY
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GEORGE F. BEASLEY
| Adina_Dyer (View posts) | Posted: 6 Feb 2002 8:19AM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Beasley, Emerson, Sheetz, Taylor, Truitt
My only connection to this family is through the wife of George Beasly - Mary V. Sheetz, a distant cousin.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp. 727-728
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888
GEORGE F. BEASLEY, physician and surgeon, Lafayette, was born in Montgomery County, this State, November 14, 1841, his parents being ALLEN D. and MILLIE E. (TRUITT) BEASLEY. His father was a native of Brown County, Ohio, where his grandfather, NATHANIEL, was an early settler, coming from Virginia. The latter was one of the first Government surgeons in that part of Ohio, and was intimately acquainted with those noted frontiersmen, DANIEL BOONE and SIMON KENTON.
MR. ALLEN D. BEASLEY served in the war of 1812, under General Hull, who was a Methodist minister, a business man and a school teacher. He moved to Hamilton County, Indiana, about 1830, and thence to Montgomery County, southern portion, where he taught school at first and subsequently opened a farm, but his income was small and he could readily find better situations. In 1852 he moved to Greencastle, Indiana, in the fall of 1854 to the southern part of Tippecanoe County, in 1856 to Texas, and in 1858 returned to this county. In 1863 he entered the army as Chaplain of the Fortieth Indiana Infantry, and while in the service, July 3, 1863, he died, at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The doctor's mother is yet living, in Lafayette.
DR. BEASLEY commenced his medical studies under the preceptorship of Dr. R. L. REA, of Chicago, in the fall of 1861, and graduated at Rush Medical College, in that city, in 1864; then served as assistant surgeon in the United States Navy until the autumn of 1865, on three different vessels in the Mississippi Squadron, and on detached service. He closed his term in the navy at Mound City, Illinois. After spending a few months at Greencastle, this State, he attended a course of lectures and clinics at the Bellevue Hospital, New York City, and since the autumn of 1866 he has been a practitioner of Lafayette. With the mind and physical constitution possessed by the doctor and the advantages he has had for education and practice in his profession, it is needless to add that he excels as a practitioner of the healing art. He has long been a member of the Tippecanoe Medical Society, in which he has been honored with all its official relations. He is also an adept in Freemasonry, being a member of the blue lodge, chapter and commandery; is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias, uniform rank, in which he has been for five years a participant in its prize drills, and is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, John A. Logan Post, No. 3, at Lafayette.
January 28, 1884, DR. BEASLEY married MISS MARY V. SHEETZ, a native of this county and a daughter of FREDERICK* and ELIZA CATHERINE (TAYLOR) SHEETZ. Her parents were natives of West Virginia, her father was born in 1804, and her mother in 1814; they were married in that State, December 21, 1831, and the next year emigrated by wagon to Lafayette; here he conducted the "Upper" mill, in the manufacture of flour and other bread stuffs; and after a time he also ran Holloway's mill, about five miles below town. Soon after arriving here he obtained several hundred acres of land about three miles west of Lafayette, and after milling a number of years he moved out upon his land and commence farming. He died there August 3, 1864, and MRS. SHEETZ died September 28, 1874, and they are buried in Hebron Cemetery, five miles northwest of Lafayette. They were members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Lafayette.
**Frederick SHEETZ was the son of Frederick SHEETZ and Nancy Emerson of Hampshire County, Virginia. Several members of these two families, along with the Parker family from Hampshire County, settled in Benton, Tippecanoe and White counties. Frederick SHEETZ Sr. and Nancy Emerson were my 5th gr. grandparents.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp. 727-728
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888
GEORGE F. BEASLEY, physician and surgeon, Lafayette, was born in Montgomery County, this State, November 14, 1841, his parents being ALLEN D. and MILLIE E. (TRUITT) BEASLEY. His father was a native of Brown County, Ohio, where his grandfather, NATHANIEL, was an early settler, coming from Virginia. The latter was one of the first Government surgeons in that part of Ohio, and was intimately acquainted with those noted frontiersmen, DANIEL BOONE and SIMON KENTON.
MR. ALLEN D. BEASLEY served in the war of 1812, under General Hull, who was a Methodist minister, a business man and a school teacher. He moved to Hamilton County, Indiana, about 1830, and thence to Montgomery County, southern portion, where he taught school at first and subsequently opened a farm, but his income was small and he could readily find better situations. In 1852 he moved to Greencastle, Indiana, in the fall of 1854 to the southern part of Tippecanoe County, in 1856 to Texas, and in 1858 returned to this county. In 1863 he entered the army as Chaplain of the Fortieth Indiana Infantry, and while in the service, July 3, 1863, he died, at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The doctor's mother is yet living, in Lafayette.
DR. BEASLEY commenced his medical studies under the preceptorship of Dr. R. L. REA, of Chicago, in the fall of 1861, and graduated at Rush Medical College, in that city, in 1864; then served as assistant surgeon in the United States Navy until the autumn of 1865, on three different vessels in the Mississippi Squadron, and on detached service. He closed his term in the navy at Mound City, Illinois. After spending a few months at Greencastle, this State, he attended a course of lectures and clinics at the Bellevue Hospital, New York City, and since the autumn of 1866 he has been a practitioner of Lafayette. With the mind and physical constitution possessed by the doctor and the advantages he has had for education and practice in his profession, it is needless to add that he excels as a practitioner of the healing art. He has long been a member of the Tippecanoe Medical Society, in which he has been honored with all its official relations. He is also an adept in Freemasonry, being a member of the blue lodge, chapter and commandery; is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias, uniform rank, in which he has been for five years a participant in its prize drills, and is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, John A. Logan Post, No. 3, at Lafayette.
January 28, 1884, DR. BEASLEY married MISS MARY V. SHEETZ, a native of this county and a daughter of FREDERICK* and ELIZA CATHERINE (TAYLOR) SHEETZ. Her parents were natives of West Virginia, her father was born in 1804, and her mother in 1814; they were married in that State, December 21, 1831, and the next year emigrated by wagon to Lafayette; here he conducted the "Upper" mill, in the manufacture of flour and other bread stuffs; and after a time he also ran Holloway's mill, about five miles below town. Soon after arriving here he obtained several hundred acres of land about three miles west of Lafayette, and after milling a number of years he moved out upon his land and commence farming. He died there August 3, 1864, and MRS. SHEETZ died September 28, 1874, and they are buried in Hebron Cemetery, five miles northwest of Lafayette. They were members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Lafayette.
**Frederick SHEETZ was the son of Frederick SHEETZ and Nancy Emerson of Hampshire County, Virginia. Several members of these two families, along with the Parker family from Hampshire County, settled in Benton, Tippecanoe and White counties. Frederick SHEETZ Sr. and Nancy Emerson were my 5th gr. grandparents.