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OB'fc »# - Dv» C- C. Beatty.The people were sfeocfced Monday after-ooon be the annoum*ayiot that Kev, Dr.C C BmUt. oitf erf i *ew-ing dtiaena and lb* olfeat Presbyterian minister in this section, bad departed this Hfe at half past three o’clock. The_ deceased b««*» i» health for some lime’ but hi* hardy constitution and strong yital power* (fare hope that he would yet be sometime among us. Only week before last he attended the meeting of the Ohio Synod of the Presbyterian Church at Co!umbos, but his condition after be came home soon tare evidence that hie natural powers were greatly enfeebled It was only yesterday however, that any very alarming phases were developed, but be continued to grow won* during the day and all night, until death th» afternoon came to end a long life.Dr Beatty's ancestor* were resident* of the north of Ireland, although hU father, Col. E Beatty, was a resident of New Jersey being during the years 1,88, s. and ’88 paymaster to the U. S. army, com tug westward, and making the only sketch of old Fort Steuben occupying the site of thus city, which is in existence. He died *eb-ruarv 23 1823.Of his* three children, Charles Clinton Beatty, the subject of out sketch, was born near Princeton, N, J., on January 4, 1800.In earlv life he was very delicate, hut had all the educational advantages the country then afforded, both at the Princeton Academy and with private tutors. He entered the Sophomore claw of Princeton College in 1816. In 1817 he began to experience strong religions convictions, and during the summer session of that year he made a public profession and was examined for admission to the Presbyterian Church with two of his ciaasmsiee, Johu Breckinridge and Thus.C Kennedy, He graduated without honor* on September 86, 1818,being small of hi* age, slender and delicate. He had two sister*, Susan, who died in the winter of 1817-18, and Mary, married to Kcv. B. Wilbur, who, moving to Davtou, O, her husband died the same year The arrangement was that Charles should spend a year with his sister before entering hie professional studies, and although her husband’s death deferred this tor a while, he finally went to Dayton where he taught school for four months, when ill health caused him to desist. He started on horae-babk to Detroit, and then to Niagara Falla, but fell ill of miasmatic fever and ague, near Buffalo. He finally reached the residence of Rev. Mr. BarnarJ, at Lima, from where, after a few days nursing, be went to Albany, and thence home by water. He entered Princeton Theological Seminary the following November, where he remained three years, and at one time contemplated going as a missionary to the heathen on the Columbia river. He was ordained on October 2. 1822, at Cranberry, a little over aixty years ago, and started as a missionary to the Wabash Valley, then the far west. He reached Pittsburgh the third Sunday out, Wheeling the fourth and then begun his work on the Wabash, organiiiug several churches, and learning of the death of his father he came back to Pittsburgh. Here he was invited to come down and preach to the Bteuben-ville Presbyterian Church, then yacant, which resulted in a call at a salary ot $500 a year. It was accepted, and on October 21,1823, he was installed as pastor of this church. He continued pastor of this congregation, then located on the site of the Old Presbyterian Church, for about thirteen year* and a half, performing constant and arduous labor.SitAdlt;1BettheotCfeIasiinswitjterterthere*Hiae:SUIMle*tnanfeiatwiT,DaofDWlellwlaelUlOloftwflt!lirc
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Steubenville Weekly Herald
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Fri, Nov 03, 1882
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