Bio: Beattie, James W. (1881)

 
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Surnames: Beattie, Babcock

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, pages 1210-1211

JAMES W. BEATTIE, warehouseman, Marshfield. Was born in Clayton, Winnebago Co., Wis., April 28, 1853; lived there ever since, until December, 1880, when he came to Marshfield. Has followed farming and well-drilling, and is now preparing to engage in general warehouse business at Marshfield, with N. Blau. Was married, Oct. 18, 1876, to Miss Loraine Babcock, of Clayton, Wis. They have two children, Jessie O. and Florence E. His father, Isaac Beattie, came to Clayton in 1844, and was one of the first settlers there. He died Nov. 4, 1872. Mother still lives on the old homestead.