George Hopler Beatty

NJGenWeb ~ Morris County, New Jersey

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

One of the rising men in a young community, the wide-awake, progressive town of Mount Arlington, is George Hopler BEATTY, a member of a family for many years associated with New Jersey state, where they made their home and plied, for at least three generations, the trade of carpentry and building. His paternal grandparents were Jacob and Eva BEATTY, who lived for many years in Warren county, and there he carried on successfully his business of millwright up to the time of his death. Jacob BEATTY Jr., father of George H. BEATTY, was born in Warren county, at the home of his parents, and here he lived most of life of seventy-three years. He was a carpenter and builder and followed his trade until the year of his death. He married Mary HOPLER, daughter of Isaac HOPLER, who carried on a prosperous farm in Morris county on Schooleys Mountain, one of the most picturesque regions in that most picturesque country, northern New Jersey. Jacob BEATTY’s death occurred November 18, 1910, that of Mrs. BEATTY in July, 1913. To them were born seven children as follows:

Ida, now Mrs. John HANKERSON, of Hackettstown, New Jersey;
Emma, now Mrs. Miller CURL, also of Hackettstown;
George Hopler, of whom further;
Charles, who married Flora HOFFMAN, and is employed as a carpenter in Saw Mill Foundry; Harry, employed by the Notion Store at Hackettstown, New Jersey;
Alvin, who has a position as a clerk in the store at Luxemburg;
Stella, who now resides with her brother, George H. BEATTY.

George Hopler BEATTY was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, but passed his childhood and early youth in Warren county, the home county of his family for many years, and here also he obtained his education, attending the local public schools. He found employment on a farm and was engaged in this occupation up to the commencement of his apprenticeship as carpenter and builder. This trade he learned with Cyrus E. COOK, who eventually took him into partnership and gave him his daughter to wife. In the spring of 1888 Mr. BEATTY removed to Mount Arlington, Morris county, New Jersey, and here it was that he met Mr. COOK and entered into that association with him which has lasted so long and proved mutually advantageous. Mr. COOK’s reputation was already firmly established in the town, he had built the Hotel Breslin but the year before, and had the largest business of the kind thereabouts. Mr. BEATTY soon rendered himself invaluable to his employer, who in 1904 took him into partnership. Since Mr. COOK’s retirement from active business, Mr. BEATTY has carried on the concern on his own account, and has done a large proportion of the building accomplished on the lake in that period. It seems probable that the large measure of success that has been Mr. COOK’s in the past will remain with Mr. BEATTY in the future. Mr. BEATTY is a Republican in politics and prominent in the local organization of the party. He takes a great interest in public affairs and is at present a member of the board of elections.

Mr. BEATTY was a young man when he first came to the locality on the shore of Lake Hopatcong which has since become the borough of Mount Arlington, but young as he was, the town is still younger and Mr. BEATTY has had the opportunity to witness almost the entire growth of the place during the time of its extraordinary development. He is one of those whose business acumen enabled him to foresee this development and to realize that, unlike many such rapid growths, this one represented a substantial prosperity, based as it was upon the deserved popularity of the beautiful lake upon which the town borders. There are few more beautiful spots to be found than those afforded by the bold yet gracious shores of Lake Hopatcong, whose broad waters are broken in innumerable bays and channels of charming variety. In this attractive locality Mr. BEATTY has become a man of distinction, and has made for himself a position of wealth and happiness, which there is every reason to believe he will increase for himself in the future, as well as his usefulness to the community at large.

Mr. BEATTY married, in 1893, Georgia A. COOK, eldest daughter of Cyrus E. and Lydia COOK, of Mount Arlington.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)