This day book for the partnership of brothers Joshua and Jesse Beale records entries for building the mill, buying mill stones, putting on the roof, and paying an expert, Godfrey House, "for making oil & larning us how to make oil" in 1829. They bought flax to make linseed oil and milled other grains. The volume also contains the names of their hired workers, and purchases and barters for goods.
In Historical Collections and Labor Archives, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (#2008-0093H/HCVF)
Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Dan Casavant Rare Books, 2008.
Biographical or Historical Sketch
Brothers Joshua and Jesse Beale established a grist mill and in March 1828 a flax oil mill in Lack Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania. Joshua Beale, born 26 Nov. 1791, in Cumberland County, Pa., married Emelia Milliken, 10 June 1834, and served as a register and recorder in 1830 and 1867; he died 27 Nov. 1875 in Juniata County. Jesse Beale, born 25 April 1794 in Tuscarora Valley, Mifflin County, Pa., married Elizabeth McConnell Morrow on 30 Mar. 1836, and served as the first postmaster in Beale's Mills in 1839; he died 12 Nov. 1847, in Juniata County.
Binding notes
Housed in ShareBox 002. boxShare002 GST/P/1/1 c.1 (Archival/Manuscript Material) bound in ShareBox 002
Endowment Note
A. Howry and Erma Espenshade Memorial Libraries Endowment
