BIOGRAPHY: James M. BEALE, Honey Grove, Tuscarora Twp, Juniata Co., PA
  
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  The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, 
  Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, 
  Pennsylvania.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, 
  Pages 870-871.
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    JAMES M. BEALE, Honey Grove, Tuscarora township, Juniata county,
  Pa., was born March 25, 1837. John Beale, the original ancestor of
  the family in America, was a native of England came to this country
  with the Penn family. He was a surveyor, and assisted in laying out
  the city of Philadelphia. His son, William Beale, was a farmer and a
  minister of the Society of Friends. David Beale, son of William
  Beale, and grandfather of James M. Beale, was a native of Chester
  county, Pa., and received a good education in Philadelphia. He came
  to the Tuscarora valley in company with Thomas, an older brother,
  about 1765. Thomas settled near Academia, Pa., and built a
  grist-mill. David took up a large tract of land on which he built a
  grist and saw-mill, the site of the historic Bealetown about 1773. In
  1814 he built a fine stone house, one of the first erected in the
  township; and here he died in 1828, aged eighty-three. He was married
  to Rachel McConnell, a native of Tuscarora valley, in 1776. They had
  ten children: Mary, born in 1777; William born in 1778; James, born
  in 1781, died in 1796; Mary born in 1783, wife of Thomas McConnell,
  Esq.; Ann, born in 1785, wife of Joseph McCoy; David, born in 1788;
  Joshua, born in 1791; Jesse, born in 1794; Rachel, born in 1796,
  married to Hon. Thomas J. Milliken; Edith, born in 1800, married
  Thomas Van Sweringen. His wife died in 1843, where her grandson,
  James M., now resides. Mr. Beale was a Democrat, filled the office of
  justice of the peace, and was associate judge of Mifflin county.
  Joshua Beale, father of James M. Beale, received a common school
  education. He was one of the largest stock dealers in the county. At
  the death of his father he took charge of the home farm, which
  contained about 200 acres, on which he planted an orchard, built a
  dwelling house and made other improvements. He died there in 1875,
  aged eighty-four years. He married Milly Milliken, a native of
  Juniata county, in 1834. They had five children: David J. Beale, D.
  D., born July 1, 1835, pastor of a Presbyterian church in
  Philadelphia, was serving the first Presbyterian church of Johnstown,
  Pa., during the flood of 1889; James M.; S. McConnell, born in 1838;
  R. Jennie, born in 1841, wife of Rev. I. Newton Ritner, post chaplain
  Ft. Keough, Mont.; and J. Frank, born in 1843, merchant of
  Philadelphia, Pa.
    James M. Beale received his education in the Tuscarora township
  school, and made farming his life occupation. He has remained on the
  homestead and made a comfortable home of his aged parents. November
  28, 1867, he was married to Tillie J. Randolph, a daughter of John
  and Hannah (Kepner) Randolph. Their children are: Anna Jennette, born
  September 10, 1868, died August 20, 1889; Millie Jane, born January
  26, 1870; Junia Mary, born April 1, 1873, wife of Stewart M.
  Milliken, East Waterford, Pa.; James Franklin, born October 6, 1875;
  Tillie Florence born February 14, 1878, died March 16, 1880; John
  Randolph, born July 6, 1881, died in October, 1883; and Lila May,
  born December 19, 1883. In his political views Mr. Beale is a
  Democrat, and has served as school director and as judge of
  elections. He has also frequently acted as executor of wills. His
  religious creed and form of worship are those of the Presbyterian
  church.