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Andrew Beaumont, son of Isaiah and Fear (Alden) Beaumont, born Connecticut, 1791, died Wilkes-Barre, September 30, 1853, came to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1808, a youth of seventeen years, to obtain an education, and attended the Old Academy for several terms, pay- ing his way by his labor in the meantime. He soon became a teacher where he had before been a student, and for some time he and the late Hon. Garrick Mallery taught the old school. In Jan-
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uary, 1814, he was appointed by President Mad- ison collector of revenue, direct taxes and inter- nal duties for the Twentieth Collection District of Pennsylvania, which included Luzerne county. This office he held until 1816, when he was ap- pointed prothonotary and clerk of the courts of Luzerne county, which offices he held until 1819. In 1821 he was elected to the Legislature, and re- elected in 1822 ; in 1826 he was appointed post- master at Wilkes-Barre, holding the office until 1832. During the latter year he was a candidate for congress from the district composed of the counties of Luzerne and Columbia. The candi- dates were Mr. Beaumont, Dr. Thomas W. Miner and James McClintock, Mr. Miner being a Whig, the other two Democrats. This was a noted campaign and triangular fight, spirited and bit- ter, but Mr. Beaumont's plurality was eighty- eight votes. He was re-elected to his second term in 1834. During his service in congress the celebrated contest of President Jackson against the United States Bank occurred, and Mr. Beaumont was a distinguished figure in up- holding the hands of the President in this cele- brated contest of opposition to the support of private institutions by the general government. His constitutents warmly sustained him in this course. His course in congress brought him into the closest confidence with Presidents Jack- son, Van Buren and Polk, Vice-Presidents King and Lewis Cass. He declined a renomination, and in 1840 was tendered by President Van Bu- ren the appointment of treasurer of the United States Mint at Philadelphia, which he declined, believing that his services were more needed at home. In 1847 he was tendered the appointment by President Polk of commissioner of public buildings and grounds for the District of Colum- bia, at that time an office of great responsibility and requiring executive ability of a high order in the incumbent. He accepted this office,entering ac- tively on his duties, but his nomination was re- jected by the senate through the influence of Sen- ator Benton, of Missouri, who opposed him on personal grounds. During the year 1849 he suf- fered from protracted illness. However, during this year he was elected, against his will, to the
state legislature. Enfeebled as he was he re- paired to Harrisburg and entered upon the dis- charge of his duties, apparently with the vigor that characterized his former life. Mr. Beau- mont was the first man in the legislature to pro- pose the establishing of direct relations between the state and the general government, and through his exertions and arguments the committee on federal relations was finally created ; he was ap- pointed chairman, and made the first report ever presented to the Pennsylvania legislature on that subject-a state paper, so thoughtful, strong and suited to the time that it may appropriately be called a "landmark in the history of the law- making of the country."
"In early life it was Mr. Beaumont's desire to qualify himself for the practice of the law. At this period he had become a thorough classical scholar, and, quitting his school for a more lu- crative employment, he enrolled his name as a student in the law office of Judge Mallery, and devoted every moment of his leisure to the ac- quisition of that profession. At the termination of the usual period of study he was pronounced by a competent committee fully qualified for ad- mission to the bar, but the presiding judge de- clined to admit him, alleging as the reason that his reading had not been pursued for what he deemed a necessary period in the office of an in- structor. Mr. Beaumont and his friends always regarded this as a mere pretext, but it had the desired effect, and drove this bright young man from the profession." Mr. Beaumont was well known for a period of more than forty years in Pennsylvania as a political writer, and was recog- nized as a political economist of wide repute. "His writings-terse, energetic, and clear in style-would fill volumes. He wrote some poetry and one of his poems, 'Sons of Wyoming,' was very popular as a song when it was written, on the occasion of the departure from Wilkes-Barre of the 'Wyoming Artillerists' for the Mexican war." Mr. Beaumont became a member of Lodge 61, Free and Accepted Masons in 1816; was senior warden 1817-19, and worshipful mas- ter 1820, 1821, 1826, and again in 1844, upon the revival of the lodge. In 1831 he fitted up a lodge
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room in his own house, where during the period of suspension Masonic meetings were frequently held, and where in January, 1844, the lodge was revived and reconstituted.
Mr. Beaumont was married in 1813, to Julia Colt, died Wilkes-Barre, October 13, 1872, sec- ond daughter of Arnold Colt, who was one of the most enterprising of Wyoming valley. Arnold Colt was born in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1870, and married Lucinda Yarrington, by whom he had seven chil- dren. He was a son of Harris and Elizabeth (Turner) Colt, a grandson of Benjamin and Mi- riam (Harris) Colt, who was a son of Harris, who was a son of Benjamin, who was a son of John, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1658. The last named was a son of John Colt, of Colchester, England. Nearly all the Colt families of Amer- ica are branches of this family. Mr. and Mrs. Beaumont had children : John Colt, born August 27, 1821, of whom later; William Henry, born November 27, 1825, of whom later ; Andrew B. : Eugene Beauharnais, born August 2, 1837, of whom later : Elizabeth Colt, married Samuel P. Collins ; Sarah Griswold, married George W. Leuffer ; Julia B., married Dr. Cyrus D. Glon- inger ; Eleanor B .; Hortense.
Admiral John Colt Beaumont, U. S. N., eld- est son of Hon. Andrew and Julia (Colt) Beau- mont, was born in Wilkes-Barre, August 27, 1821, and was appointed acting midshipman March 1, 1838. He served on the sloops-of- war "Ontario" and "Erie" 1838-40; and on the frigate "Constitution" during her cruise around the world, 1840-44. He was promoted to passed midshipman 1844. appointed to sloop-of-war "Jamestown," serving on the coast of Africa, and was acting master 1844-46. In the latter year he was sent to the ship-of-the-line "Ohio," West India Squadron, and was present at the bom- bardment and fall of Vera Cruz. He was made acting lieutenant 1847, and assigned to the fri- gate "Columbia." He was on duty at the Naval Observatory, Washington, in 1848. In 1849-50 he was on the razee "Independence," Mediter- ranean squadron, as master and acting lieutenant. He was promoted to lieutenant 1852, and was on
duty at the Naval Observatory again, 1852-54. He was on the U. S. steamer "San Jacinto," on the coast of Europe and the West Indies, 1854- 55; on frigate "Potomac," Home Squadron, 1856; on steam-frigate "Wabash," Home Squadron, 1857; receiving-ship at New York, 1857-58; steam-sloop "Hartford," East India Squadron, China Sea, 1859-60; sloop-of-war "John Adams," executive officer, 1860-61; 1862. promoted to lieutenant-commander, commanding U. S. steamer "Aroostook," North Atlantic Squadron, and was an active participant in the- engagements with the enemy's batteries in the James river and at Fort Darling in May, 1862. In the same year he was promoted to commander ; he commanded the steam-gunboat "Sebago" in. 1863, in various engagements in Charleston har- bor, and took a leading part in the capture of Fort Wagner. He commanded the U. S. steamer "Mackinaw" 1864-65, in the North and South Atlantic Squadrons, and participated in all the- attacks on Fort Fisher, where his vessel was. badly cut up by the enemy's shell, and though sig- nalled that he could retire from the action de- clined to do so; he participated in all the subse- quent engagements with the Confederate batter- ies on Cape Fear river. In 1866-67 he had the distinguished honor to command the famous. double-turreted monitor, "Miantonomah," and; took her safely to Europe and back, being every- where received with special honors. He was re- tired in 1868, and was restored to the active list in 1873 as captain, commanding U. S. steamer "Powhatan" on special service in 1873-74. He- was promoted to commodore 1874, and from 1875 to 1879 was chief signal officer of the navy. In November, 1881, he was promoted to rear-ad- miral, and was retired February 3, 1882, after serving a tour of duty as commandant at the Portsmouth navy yard. He died in Durham, New Hampshire, August 2, 1882. Admiral Beaumont was twice married. His first wife- was Fanny Dorrance, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- vania, daughter of Rev. John Dorrance. She was a woman of rare beauty and great intelligence. Many years after her death he married, in 1874, Fanny King, of Washington City, who survived"
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him. Three children were born of the latter marriage-Ethel Agnes, Ammen, and John, now living in Hagerstown, Maryland.
.William Henry Beaumont, second son of An- drew and Julia A. (Colt) Beaumont, was born Wilkes-Barre, November 27, 1825, died there June 19, 1874. He read law with Charles Denison and was admitted to the bar of Luzerne county, April 8, 1851. He served throughout the whole Mexican war, and was first sergeant, Company I, First Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. In 1852, in association with M. P. Barnum, he established in Wilkes-Barre the True Democrat, which, as its name indicates, was an orthodox organ of democracy, but which unfortunately suspended publication at the end of about one year. Mr. Beaumont was a great reader, had a splendid memory, and was one of the wittiest and most popular men in Wilkes-Barre. His humor was bright and sparkling, his powers of mimicry ad- mirable, and his hearty laugh was contagious.
Lieut. Col. Eugene Beauharnais Beaumont, U. S. A., youngest son of Hon. Andrew and Julia A. (Colt) Beaumont, born Wilkes-Barre, Penn- sylvania, August 2, 1837, graduated at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and commissioned second lieutenant First U. S. Cav- alry, May 6, 1861, and was detailed to drill vol- unteers at Washington, D. C. At the first battle of Bull Run he was aide-de-camp to General Burnside, and was highly complimented by that officer in his official report. He was commissioned first lieutenant September 14, 1861. He served during 1861 and in 1862 as aide on the staff of General Sedgwick, on the upper Potomac, in the Shenandoah valley, and on the Peninsula, but, afflicted with typhoid fever, he was obliged to quit the field. In the winter of 1862-1863 he was aide-de-camp to Major-General Halleck. In May, 1853, he was commissioned captain U. S. volunteers, and was ordered to duty with Major- General Sedgwick, commanding Sixth Corps, as aide-de-camp : served in the Gettysburg cam- paign, and participated in the battles of Rappa- hannock Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spott- sylvania Court House and Cold Harbor. After
Sedgwick's death Beaumont was ordered by Gen- eral Grant to report to Gen. J. H. Wilson, com- manding Third Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac, and was in all the battles and operations of the division around Richmond, in the raid and destruction of the Danville & Southside Railroad, and the campaign against Early in the Shenandoah Valley. In October, 1864, he accompanied Gen. J. H. Wilson to Nashville, having been commissioned major and assistant adjutant general and served as such with the cavalry corps of the military division of the Mississippi, and was compli- mented for efficient services in the organization of the corps. He participated in the battle of Nashville and the pursuit of Hood ; the fight at Hollow Tree Gap, Richland Creek, Little River, Pulaski, and in various skirmishes was with his corps on its march through Alabama and Geor- gia, taking part in the battles of Montevallo, Ebenezer Church, storming of Selma, capture of Montgomery, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia. He received Jefferson Davis at Macon on his arrival as a prisoner after capture, and remained on duty at Macon until November, 1864. He was mustered out of the volunteer service March 19, 1866. He was commissioned captain Fourth Cavalry, July 25, 1865. He was several times brevetted : captain, November 7, 1863, for gal- lant and meritorious service in the battle of Rap- pahannock Station, Virginia ; major, April 2, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the capture of Selma, Alabama ; lieutenant-colonel of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service during the war in Tennessee ; and colonel of volunteers, April 2, 1865, for gal- lant and distinguished service in the battle of Selma. He was awarded the congressional medal of honor, March 30, 1898, for most dis- tinguished gallantry in action at the Harpeth river, Tennessee, December 17, 1864, where he led the attack upon a battery. and captured the guns ; and at Selma, Alabama, April 2, 1865, when he charged with his regiment into the en- emy's works, while major and assistant adjutant general of volunteers, serving with the cavalry corps, army of the Mississippi. In April, 1866,
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he took command of Troop A, Fourth Cavalry, ginia ; brevet brigadier-general volunteers March at San Antonio, Texas, and commanded a battal- ion of four troops in the fight at Palo Dura Canon, September 28, 1874, Red River, which re- sulted in the defeat of the Comanches, the de- struction of their camps, and the capture of 1,700 horses and mules. He was promoted to major November 12, 1879, and lieutenant-colonel Third Cavalry, January 14, 1892. He was re- tired May 6. 1892. He is a member of the Penn- sylvania Commandery. Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; the Society of the Army of the Potomac; the Society of the Sixth Corps ; the Grand Army of the Republic : the Pennsyl- vania Society, Sons of the Revolution; the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, and the Westmoreland Club of Wilkes-Barre.
He. married (first) Wilkes-Barre, September 8, 1861, Margaret Rutter, who died April 2, 1879, daughter of Nathaniel Rutter. (See Rutter family.) He married (second), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 20, 1883, Maria Linds- ley Orton, who died at Wilkes-Barre. She was daughter of Dr. Milton Pardee Orton, of Law- renceville, Pennsylvania, a graduate of Yale Col- lege, and a surgeon U. S. V., dying while in charge of Hatteras Inlet. He married (third) September 28. 1905, Mrs. Stella Shoemaker (Orton ) Rusling, sister of his second wife.
Colonel Beaumont had children only by his first marriage, viz. :
I. Natalie Sedgwick Beaumont, married Gen. George Forsythe, U. S. A., April 24, 1885, and had Alexander Beaumont, born August 5, 1888, died 1890; and George Beaumont, born July 5, 1894, died in infancy. General Forsythe is one of the most gallant officers who ever adorned the army. He made a splendid record during the Civil war, and in subsequent service against the Indians. He was born in Pennsyl- vania. He was private Chicago (Illinois) Dra- goons, April 19-August 18, 1861 ; first lieutenant Eighth Illinois Cavalry, September 18, 1861 ; captain, February 12, 1862; major, Sep- tember 1, 1863; brevet colonel volunteers Oc- tober 19, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services battles Opequan and Middletown, Vir-
13, 1865, for distinguished services and conspic- uous gallantry ; mustered out February 1, 1866. Appointed major Ninth United States Cavalry July 28. 1866 ; brevet lieutenant-colonel March 2. 1867, for gallant and meritorious service, battle Dinwiddie C. H., Virginia ; brevet colonel same date for same, battle Five Forks, Virginia ; brevet brigadier-general September 17, 1868, for gallant conduct and meritorious service in engagement with hostile Indians, Arickaree Fork of Republi- can river, that year : lieutenant-colonel and mili- tary secretary to Lieutenant-General Sheridan, November 13. 1869: relieved March 17, 1873; lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp April 9, 1878 ; lieutenant-colonel Fourth U. S. Cavalry June 26, 1881 ; retired for disability March 25, 1890.
2. Hortense Darling Beaumont, of whom later.
3. Eugene Beauharnais Beaumont. farmer and editor, Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, born Octo- ber 2. 1868; married. June, 1896. Josephine F. White, of Philadelphia. They had Eugene B. Jr.
4. Andre Alden Beaumont, born August 4, 1870: married, April 20, 1899, Elsie Butler. daughter of Edwin Griffin Butler, Esq. (See Butler family). They had Andre Alden. Mr. Beaumont is a member of the Pennsylvania So- ciety, Sons of the Revolution.
Hortense Darling Beaumont, daughter of Col. Eugene B. and Margaret (Rutter) Beau- mont, married Capt. Charles Pinckney Elliott, U. S. A., born Beaufort, South Carolina, March '5, 1860, son of General Stephen Elliott, Jr., C. S. A., and his wife, Charlotte Stuart, and grand- son of Rev. Stephen Elliott, Protestant Episco- pal Church, Georgia, and his wife, Anna Hutson Habersham, daughter of Major John Haber -. sham, member Continental Congress from Geor- gia. Rev. Stephen Elliott was son of William Elliott, of William, of Thomas, an early settler of Georgia. General Stephen Elliott Jr., C. S. A. entered the Confederate States Army as captain, and rose to the rank of brigadier-general, May, 1864. He died at Aikens, South Carolina, Feb- ruary 21, 1866, of wounds received at Peters- burg, Virginia, 1864.
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Captain Elliott was educated at West Point Military Academy ; cadet, July 1, 1878; second lieutenant, Thirteenth Infantry, January 13, 1882 ; transferred to Fourth U. S. Cavalry, June 7, 1883 ; first lieutenant, October, 1888; retired with rank of captain. July 9. 1898. He joined Thirteenth Infantry in the field at Fort Seldon, New Mexico, September, 1882, transferred to Fourthi Cavalry, engaged in campaign against Apache Indians ; at camp at Richmond, Arizona, in June, 1883 ; at Fort Cummings, New Mexico ; in the field during winter of 1883-84; at Fort Bayard. New Mexico, until June, 1884: trans- ferred to Arizona with regiment, remaining at Fort Lowell for one month: reported to Capt. Emmet Crawford for duty as provost marshal of San Carlos, Indian Reservation, and for duty with Indian scouts, July, 1884; remained on duty with Indians, participating in Apache campaign in New Mexico, Arizona and Old Mexico, where he was attacked, captured and imprisoned by Mexican troops, August 23, 1885. He was highly complimented by Captain Crawford for conduct in that affair. He was relieved at his own re- quest to take command of Troop H, October, 1885, joined in Guadaloupe Canon, Mexico, where he remained until forced by sickness to leave for treatment, April, 1886. Joined at Huachuca, Arizona, October, 1886; transferred to Fort Myer, Virginia, January 1, 1888; to Co- lumbia, South Carolina, October, 1888, to Fort Myer Virginia, March, 1889; Fort Sherman, Idaho, November, 1890; Fort Walla Walla, Washington, April, 1891 : absent sick November, 1891. to July, 1893; joined at Vancouver bar- racks and participated in rescue of hunters lost in Bitter Root mountains, Idaho, November and December, 1893 ; complimentary order from post commander, letter from General Carlin, and order from War Department. Was engaged in explor- ation and survey in Bitter Root mountains, and summer and autumn of 1894; exploration and survey of Mount St. Helens, Washington, sum- mer and autumn 1896; absent sick since October 19, 1896. He was complimented in person by Capt. Emmet Crawford for conduct under fire in affair of August 23, 1885, near San Buena-
ventura, Chihuahua, Mexico; and received hon- orable mention by Brig .- Gen. George Crook, in report of Apache campaign of 1885-86, and in orders of War Department covering same cam- paign.
Capt. Charles P. and Hortense B. Elliott have eight children : Margaret Rutter, born Oc- tober 7. 1887; Stephen, born August 23, 1889; Charlotte Stuart. born September 19, 1891; Eugene Beaumont, born August 29, 1893 : Isabel Stuart, born August 1. 1895; Nathaniel Rutter, born July 15. 1897 ; Charles Pinckney, born Sep- tember 22, 1901 ; John Beaumont, born January 2, 1904. H. E. H.
DENISON FAMILY. The Denisons of the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania are direct lin- eal descendants of William Denison (George I, George 2, Joseph 3, Nathan 4, Colonel Nathan 5), who was born in England about 1580, came to America in 1630 in the "Lion," and settled in the Roxbury plantation in the colony of Massa- chusetts. With the immigrant came his wife Margaret, his three sons-Daniel, Edward, and George, and also Rev. John Eliot, who seems to have been a tutor in his family, and who after- ward gained wide celebrity as a missionary worker among the Indians of New England and New York, and who in his special field of re- ligious labor translated the Bible into the Indian language.
William Denison was a deacon of the Rox- bury church, and gave careful attention to the education of his children. He died in Roxbury in 1653. George (1) son of William, was born 1618; married (first) 1640, Bridget Thompson, daughter of John Thompson, gentleman, of Pres- ton, Northamptonshire, England, whose widow Alice had come to America and settled in Rox- bury. Bridget died 1643. George then returned to England, served under Cromwell in the army of the parliament, won distinction, was wounded at Naseby, was nursed at the house of John Boro- dell (1), Cork, Ireland, by his daughter Ann, married her, returned to America, visited the Roxbury plantation, and afterward joined the colony at Stonington, Connecticut. He died in
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Hartford, Connecticut, October 23, 1694, while there on a business errand. His wife Ann died September 6, 1712.
Capt. George Denison has been described by historians as "the Myles Standish of the settle- ment" at Stonington. Miss Calkins in her "His- tory of New London," says of him: "Our early history presents no character of bolder and more active spirit than Capt. George Denison." After leaving Roxbury in 1651 with his wife and four children, he went first to the Pequot settlement on the west bank of the Thames (New London), where a house lot was given him by the town. This he occupied until 1654, then sold out, re- moved to Stonington and settled on lands which have been in possession of some generation of his descendants from that to the present time. He accumulated a vast estate in lands in Ston- ington, in Norwich, in Windham, and also in Rhode Island, much of which was voted to him in consideration of his valorous deeds during the wars with the Indians. He was representative from Stonington to the general court at Hart- ford between 1671 and 1694 ; was magistrate; se- lectman, and indeed, held almost every important office in the town. But it was as a soldier and Indian fighter that he was most renowned, in which respect he is ranked by historians with John Mason.
George Denison (2), fourth child of Captain George and Ann ( Borodell) Denison, was born 1653 : married Mercy Gorham, daughter of Capt. John Gorham, and his wife Desire Howland, daughter of John Howland, of the "Mayflower." She was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, Jan- uary 20. 1658, died September 24, 1725. George died December 27, 1711. They had nine chil- dren, of whom Joseph (3) was the second.
Joseph Denison (3) was baptized November 14, 1683 ; married February 17, 1707, Prudence Minor, daughter of Dr. Joseph Minor. Joseph died February 18. 1725; his wife died May 26, 1726. They had nine children, of whom Nathan (4) was the fifth.
Nathan Denison (4) born February 20. 1716; married, 1736, Ann Carey, daughter of Eleazer Carey of Windham, Connecticut. She died May~
16, 1776. She was a descendant in the fourth generation of John Carey (originally spelled Carew), who came from Somersetshire, near Bristol, England, about 1634 and joined the Plymouth colony. His name is among the orig- nal proprietors and first settlers of Duxbury and Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and occurs in the original grant and subsequent deed made by Ousamequin, the chief sachem of the Pocko- nocket Indians in 1639. John Carey was con- stable in Duxbury in 1639; the first town clerk and served until 1681. He was deacon in the church, and a man of consequence in early town affairs. Tradition says he taught the first Latin class in the colony. Nathan Denison married (second) March 15, 1778, Hannah Fuller, and about 1800 removed to Kingston, Pennsylvania, where he died March 10, 1803. His children, all by his first wife, were: 1. Joseph, born Novem- ber 2, 1738 ; was a clergyman. 2. Colonel Nathan, born January 25. 1740: married Elizabeth Sill. 3. Ann, born November 19, 1742; married Solo- mon Huntington. 4. Eleazer, born December 24, 1744 : married Susanna Elderkin. 5. Lydia, born April 27, 1747; married Joshua B. Elderkin. 6. Amos, born May 31, 1749; died young.
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