Samuel Beall

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Samuel W. Beall
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John E. Holmes
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Personal details
Born
Samuel Wootton Beall

(1807-06-16)June 16, 1807
18th Reg. Wis. Vol. Infantry
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

Samuel Wootton Beall (June 16, 1807 – September 26, 1868) was an

lieutenant governor of Wisconsin (1850–1852) and lost his leg at the Battle of Shiloh, as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War
.

Early life

Born in Montgomery County, Maryland, Beall graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York, in 1827.

Career

Beall moved to what is now Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1835, where he made a fortune in land speculation, and was admitted to the bar and practiced law. In the 1840s, he settled in Taycheedah.

Between 1832 and 1856, Beall loaned the

Stockbridge and Munsee Indians' delegations to Washington, D.C. some $3,000 for their expenses while they pursued claims against the federal government. He was promised one third of whatever they recovered, but when they won their case, he claimed and recovered only his actual expenditures.[1]

Beall was a delegate to both the first and second Wisconsin

constitutional conventions from Marquette County, one of only six men to do so, as most members of the first convention declined to serve in the second.[2]

Beall was a Democrat and was lieutenant governor for Nelson Dewey's second term as governor, from 1850 until 1852.[3]

During the American Civil War, he was commissioned as a

prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, where the prisoners nicknamed him "old peg-leg" and accused him of a pattern of repeated cruelty and abuse.[4]

Death

After briefly returning to Wisconsin after the war, Beall moved to Helena, Montana, where, on September 26, 1868, he was shot following an argument with a newspaper editor.[5] He was re-interred in 1907 at Forestvale Cemetery in Helena.[6]

Family life

The son of Lewis and Eliza Beall, in 1829, he married Elizabeth Fenimore Cooper, a niece of James Fenimore Cooper, and they had seven children.[citation needed] His eldest daughter, Mary Morris Beall, was the second wife of Levi Hubbell, a prominent Wisconsin lawyer, judge and Democratic politician in early Wisconsin.[7]

Electoral history

Wisconsin Lieutenant Gubernatorial Election, 1849[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
General Election, November 6, 1849
Democratic Samuel Beall 16,355 52.59% -5.11%
Whig Timothy O. Howe 10,757 34.59% -7.71%
Free Soil John Bannister 3,985 12.81%
Plurality 5,598 18.00% +2.60%
Total votes 31,097 100.0% -8.37%
Democratic hold

References

  1. ^ Viola, Herman J. Diplomats in Buckskins: A History of Indian Delegations in Washington City, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995; p. 57
  2. ^ Smith, William R. The History of Wisconsin. In Three Parts, Historical, Documentary and Descriptive. Madison: Beriah Brown, Printer, 1854. Part II. - Documentary. Vol. III; p. 302.
  3. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ Gray, Michael P. The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2001; pp. 125-126
  5. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
    - Beall, Samuel Wooton[?] 1807 - 1868
    . Wisconsin Historical Society.
  6. Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  7. ^ Hubbell, Walter (1915). History of the Hubbell Family. New York City: The Scientific Press. p. 122. Retrieved June 9, 2021 – via Google Books.
  8. Newspapers.com
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Preceded by Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
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