Beadle was born on November 21, 1808, in
Otsego, New York, the son of Henry and Susan Beadle. Beadle grew up in
Cooperstown. He studied medicine with Dr. Mitchell of
Norwich and his uncle Dr. Chauncey Beadle of
St. Catharines, Canada and graduated from
Pittsfield, Massachusetts. and formed a partnership as physicians and apothecaries with Erastus Curtiss under the firm name Curtiss & Beadle. They had a brick store in Cooperstown. The partnership dissolved in 1833. He also began running the Green Store with Elias Root in 1832, although that partnership dissolved in 1834. In 1835, Beadle moved to
Elmira and opened a drug store there. In 1849, he and Simeon Benjamin organized the Bank of Chemung. Around that time, he and Captain Samuel Partridge bought 400 acres of land known as the Robert Covell farm in
Southport. This land became the Fifth Ward of Elmira. He was an alternate delegate to the
1856 Republican National Convention. Beadle was originally a
Whig. In 1861, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a
Union Republican, representing
Chemung County. He served in the Assembly in
1862. He lost the 1862 reelection to the Assembly to
Democratic candidate
Charles Hulett. He served on a military committee for raising troops for the
American Civil War in 1863. Beadle was an active member of the First
Presbyterian Church. In 1833, he married Mary Worthington, daughter of Captain Ralph Worthington of Cooperstown. Their children were Ralph W., Henry, Chauncey M., and Anna B. His funeral was held in his house, with Rev. Dr. A. W. Cowles reading Scripture, his brother Rev. Dr. Elias R. Beadle of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia offering a prayer, and Rev. Dr. W. E. Knox giving a few remarks at both the funeral and the burial in
Woodlawn Cemetery. == References ==