Beattie, Charles J.

Born: 1824-XX-XX New York

Died: 1911-12-29 Chicago, Illinois

Charles J. Beattie was a notary public, lawyer, district attorney, and active Republican. In 1854, he married Eliza B. Card, with whom he eventually had at least two children. In 1857, he received appointment as a notary public for La Salle County, Illinois. He and his family eventually settled in Pontiac, Illinois, and, in June 1858, he served as one of Livingston County's delegates to the 1858 Illinois Republican Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln as the party's candidate for the U.S. Senate. In April 1859, Lincoln endorsed a letter recommending Beattie to Illinois Governor William H. Bissell for prosecuting attorney for the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, a position Beattie received later that month. By 1860, Beattie owned $8,000 in real estate and another $3,675 in personal property. He lived in Pontiac through the end of the Civil War.

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, La Salle County, 7 February 1854, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 26 January 1857, 2:2; 17 June 1858, 2:3; 16 April 1859, 3:1; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Pontiac, Livingston County, IL, 126; Illinois, U.S., State Census Collection, 1825-1865, 3 July 1865, Pontiac, Livingston County, 46 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2008); Illinois Statewide Death Index, Cook County, 29 December 1910, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Gravestone, Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL.