People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — GEN. E. F. BEALE DEAD. [ARTICLE]

GEN. E. F. BEALE DEAD.

Succumbs to a Complication of Diseases at His Washington Home. WASHINGTON, April 24.— Gen. Edward Fitzgerald Beale died at his residence in this city Saturday from a complication of diseases. [He served with distinction in the Mexican war and in 1861 was commissioned surveyor general for California by President Lincoln, but declined the position in order that he might actively serve in the federal army during the civil war. In 1876 he was appointed United States minister to Austria by President Grant, but resigned after a year’s service and devoted himself to superintending his large sheep and cattle ranch in southern California, and to other interests. He had lived for many years in this city at the house in Lafayette square, where he died. Gen. Beale was one of Gen. Grant’s warmest friends, and it was at Gen. Beale's house that Gen. Grant made his home when visiting this city after his trip around the world.]