Legislator Details
Portrait of Adam Beattie scanned from Beakes (W) p.265
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Married Miss Mary E. Hand, a native of Yates county, New York, and a daughter of George and Rachel (DeKamp) Hand.
Number of Children: 0
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Biographical Sketch:
Adam Beattie acquired a good education in the best schools of Seneca county and after putting aside his textbooks he went to the south, where he engaged in teaching school for several years, or until the outbreak of the Civil war. He then returned to Seneca county and in I86I, responding to the county's call for aid, enlisted at Geneva, New York, as a member of the Twenty-sixth New York Battery. He participated in a number of important engagements but was never wounded. He was, however, taken ill with smallpox and remained in a hospital at New Orleans for several months, receiving an honorable discharge in New Orelans at the close of the war. When hostilities had ceased he returned to the county of his birth, where he remained for a short time but in I866 came to Michigan, establishing his home at Ovid, Clinton county. He purchased a farm near that town and for several years thereafter gave his time and energies to general agricultural pursuits. He later sold the property, however, and entered into partnership with a Mr. Potter, of Ovid, in conjunction with whom he purchased a saw mill eighteen miles north of the town and for several years was engaged in the lumber business there. The firm also engaged in the buying of wheat and wool at Ovid for many years and this was one of the strong business combinations of the town. Mr. Beattie also became interested in the dry-goods business in Ovid and for a number of years conducted his store with gratifying success. By a former marriage Mr. Beattie had two children. Mr. Beattie was made postmaster of Ovid under appointment of Grover Cleveland although he was a republican in his political views. He acted as postmaster for two years and then on account of ill health gave up the position and lived retired to the time of his death. He voted with the republican party. In I872 he was elected to represent his district in the state senate at Lansing and was re-elected and served for two terms. A valued representative of several fraternal organizations, he exemplified in his life the beneficent spirit of the Masonic lodge and also maintained pleasant relations with his old army comrades through his membership in the Grand Army Post at Ovid. He passed away June 26, I893.
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