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                   BEALS' OF DISTINCTION


Most of the descendants of Abel Beals were quite ordinary
people. However, there were a few who were noteworthy for
their extraordinary accomplishments.


ZEPHANIAH CHARLES BEALS  (1861 - 1946)
Charles was born in Clementsport, Nova Scotia, the sixth
child and fourth son of John (Elijah, Abel) and Lucy B.
(Beals)(Stephen,Abel) Beals. At the age of thirteen he went
to sea as a sailor but in 1883 he began his training as a
missionary at the New York Mission Institute. He began his
mission work at the East Baptist Church there and in 1883
took charge of a publishing house. In June of that year he
married Susie Hunter of Glasgow, Scotland. Two years later
they moved to Boston where he started a publishing house
under the name of Beals, Bainton and Co.

In March 1892 Charles and his wife and son, Warren, were
sent to China by the Christian and Missionary Alliance.     
His wife died six months later and his son was sent back to
New York where he died two years later. In 1894 he married
Lizzie Cassidy the widow of Dr William Cassidy also a
missionary. A year later he was appointed Local
Superintendent and Treasurer of the Central China Alliance
and took charge of a large Missionary Training Home in Wuhu
with fourty-five missionaries under him. In 1900 he
resigned and took a position as secretary to Lord Li and
tutor to his son but still had time to carry on with
missionary work.

Charles and his wife came back to America in 1912 where he
served as the Secretary-Treasurer of the American Advent
Mission Society for three years before returning to China in
1915. His second wife died a year later. His third marriage
was in 1917 in Yokohama, Japan to Effie Pinkham of Pasadena,
California. During the next fifteen years they made three
trips home and returned from China for the final time in
1932. Soon after this he received the honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity from Aurora College. He died in 1946
leaving his wife, Effie, and one son Victor.

During Charles Beals' 40 year missionary career in China he
established eleven churches, built the Wuhu Academy (out of
his own funds) which later became the first co-educational
high school in China and was instrumental in establishing a
hospital. For his services to the Chinese people he was
decorated with the Order of the Striped Tiger which gave him
one of the highest positions in the Chinese government. He
also found time for archaeology, discovering and excavating
ancient Chinese tombs. Artifacts found there were placed in
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
 









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CARLYLE SMITH BEALS  (1899 - 1979)
Carlyle Beals was born at Canso, Nova Scotia, the son of
Francis Harris Parker (James, Andrew, Abel) and Annie
Florence N. (Smith) Beals. His father was a Baptist
Minister.

After graduating from Acadia University in 1919, Carlyle
earned an M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1923, Ph.D.
from Imperial College of Science and Technology in London in
1926 and D.Sc. from London University in 1934. In 1927 he
joined the staff of the Dominion astrphysical observatory at
Victoria, B.C. and became the Dominion Astronomer in Ottawa
in 1947.

The specialty study of Dr. Beals concerned the physical
nature of the stars. His ten year research project on the
Wolf Rayet group of stars revealed that they were the
hottest discovered up to that time. Another project was the
study of inter-stellar matter, or the gaseous matter in the
space between the stars. He pioneered spectral techniques
for the study of this material. He was also the first to
conduct a systematic survey of the Canadian Shield for
craters like those on the moon. This lead to establishing
Canada as the leading authority in such studies, which grew
in importance with the exploration of space and trips to the
moon.

Dr. Beals was awarded many honours for his work. He received
honorary D.Sc. from Acadia and the University of New
Brunswick and in 1969 was made a Companion of the Order of
Canada. He received the highest award of the Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada in 1952, the Gold Metal of
the Royal Society of Canada in 1957, the Gold Metal of the
Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada and
the Leonard Metal of the Meteorical Society in 1966. He was
the only Canadian to serve as president of the American
Astronomical Society (1962-64).

Carlyle Beals died July 2, 1979 in Ottawa, leaving his wife
Miriam White Bancroft of Round Hill, Annapolis Co. and an
adopted daughter Janitza Hitchen.





















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HELEN DOROTHY BEALS  (1898 - 1991)
Helen Beals (Carlyle's sister) was born in Canso, N.S., the
daughter of Rev. Francis Harris Parker (James, Andrew, Abel)
and Annie Florence N. (Smith) Beals.

Helen graduated from Acadia University in 1919 with a B.A.
degree and the following year studied for the Certificate in
Library Science at Simmons College in Boston. On completion
of that course she became librarian at the Episcopal
Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., a position she held
for five years. In 1926 she returned to Nova Scotia and for
the next 18 years was the assistant librarian at Acadia. She
spent the academic year 1944-45 at the University of Toronto
persuing graduate studies in art and archaeology. In 1945
she was appointed head of the Department of Art at Acadia
and held that post until she retired in 1963.

Helen Beals was a gifted artist (her mother was also an
artist) and an excellent teacher. In recognition of her
exceptional contribution to the advancement of art in the
Annapolis Valley and throught the Maritimes, the government
of Nova Scotia presented her with a Cultural Life Award in
1981. In 1987 she gave almost 200 of her water colours to
the Acadia Art Gallery.

Helen Beals died April 17, 1991. She did not marry.












VAUGHN LEROY BEALS  (1928 -     )
Vaughn Beals was born in Cambridge, Mass., the son of Vaughn
Leroy (J. Howard, Nehemiah, Isaac, Abel) and Pearluela
(Wilmarth) Beals. Vaughn was (1981)(and still is ?) Chairman
of Harley-Davidson Motor Co., Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In 1951 Vaughn married Eleanore May Woods and they have two
daughters, Susan Lynn Sonju and Laurie Jean Sandberg.
















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DOUGLAS BEALS MACCORKLE  (ca 1907 -      )
Douglas MacCorkle was born in Boston, Mass., the son of John
and Laura E. (Beals) (George Fletcher, John, Elijah, Abel)
MacCorkle. 

Douglas was educated at the New England School of Art,
Boston Museum of Art, Washington School of Art, Gordon
College (A.B. 1944), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.
1947) (Th.D. 1961). Between 1942 and 1957 his pastoral
ministries were at Goffstown, N.H., Paris, Texas, Newton,
Mass., and Dallas, Texas. He was Professor and Academic Dean
at Washington Bible College, Washington, D.C. (1957-63),
Professor, President and then Chancellor, Philadelphia
College of Bible (1963-79) and President, American
Association of Bible Colleges. He also wrote or co-authored
several books of a religious nature.

Douglas MacCorkle married Jeanette Astle of Houlton, Maine
and they have two children, David Lee MacCorkle and Judy A.
Naugle.










HAROLD G. DEWOLF  (1903 -      )
Harold DeWolf was born in Bedford, N.S., the son of Harry G.
and Kattie Armistad (Fitzmaurice) DeWolf. Katie was the
daughter of James A. and Hannah (Beals) (Henry, Elijah,
Abel) Fitzmaurice.

H.G. DeWolf's career was with the Canadian Navy where he
attained the rank of Vice-Admiral CBE, DSO, DSC, CD, RCN. In
the later part of World War II he was Commander of HMCS
Haida. This ship is now permanently docked at Ontario Place
in Toronto harbour.