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Biography of Jerome's mother Nellie Griswold Beatty -
Every man, woman and child in the City of Lawrence, Kansas, knows Mrs. Nellie G. Beatty. Being a native daughter of Kansas and of Lawrence and having been during the last fifteen years in charge of the popular public library, her name is familiar in every home in the city.
Her parents were Dr. Jerome F. Griswold and Helen Mary (Hewitt) Griswold. They were among the early settlers of the free state town, and Doctor Griswold was one of the victims in the inhuman massacre of the Quantrell raid.
Nellie Griswold grew to womanhood in Lawrence and attended the public school, the high school and the state University. In college she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Down town she was connected with such organizations as the Friends in Council, the Congregational church and the Order of the Eastern Star.
She was married June 18, 1885, to W. H. Beatty. Their son, Jerome Griswold Beatty, has made an unusual success as a newspaper correspondent and short story writer. He is at present publicity director of the McClure Film Corporation. His wife was Dorothea Jane McKnight.
Source - A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918, transcribed by students from USD 508, Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter Springs, Kansas, September 7, 1999.
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Jerome Beatty was a motion picture film publicity writer, newspaper reporter, dramatic writer, and sports editor.
His career included positions with -
Essanay Film Corporation
Thanhouser Film Corporation
Player's Laskey Motion Picture Corporation - later Paramount
First National Pictures
McClure Picture Corporation
The American Magazine - Editor in 1942
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Journal
Hutchinson Gazette
New York Globe
World
Evening Mail
American Press Association
Los Angeles Express
New Orleans Statesman
New York Tribune - baseball writer
Assistant to Will H. Hays, head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), who monitored and regulated the motion picture industry after several scandals in 1920's.
He also contributed articles to Collier's, Munsey's, McClure's, Picture-Play, Photoplay, Reader's Digest.
His son, Jerome Beatty, Jr., wrote an article for The American Magazine in 1942.
Biography of Jerome's mother Nellie Griswold Beatty -
Every man, woman and child in the City of Lawrence, Kansas, knows Mrs. Nellie G. Beatty. Being a native daughter of Kansas and of Lawrence and having been during the last fifteen years in charge of the popular public library, her name is familiar in every home in the city.
Her parents were Dr. Jerome F. Griswold and Helen Mary (Hewitt) Griswold. They were among the early settlers of the free state town, and Doctor Griswold was one of the victims in the inhuman massacre of the Quantrell raid.
Nellie Griswold grew to womanhood in Lawrence and attended the public school, the high school and the state University. In college she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Down town she was connected with such organizations as the Friends in Council, the Congregational church and the Order of the Eastern Star.
She was married June 18, 1885, to W. H. Beatty. Their son, Jerome Griswold Beatty, has made an unusual success as a newspaper correspondent and short story writer. He is at present publicity director of the McClure Film Corporation. His wife was Dorothea Jane McKnight.
Source - A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918, transcribed by students from USD 508, Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter Springs, Kansas, September 7, 1999.
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Jerome Beatty was a motion picture film publicity writer, newspaper reporter, dramatic writer, and sports editor.
His career included positions with -
Essanay Film Corporation
Thanhouser Film Corporation
Player's Laskey Motion Picture Corporation - later Paramount
First National Pictures
McClure Picture Corporation
The American Magazine - Editor in 1942
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Journal
Hutchinson Gazette
New York Globe
World
Evening Mail
American Press Association
Los Angeles Express
New Orleans Statesman
New York Tribune - baseball writer
Assistant to Will H. Hays, head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), who monitored and regulated the motion picture industry after several scandals in 1920's.
He also contributed articles to Collier's, Munsey's, McClure's, Picture-Play, Photoplay, Reader's Digest.
His son, Jerome Beatty, Jr., wrote an article for The American Magazine in 1942.
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Biography of Jerome's mother Nellie Griswold Beatty -
Every man, woman and child in the City of Lawrence, Kansas, knows Mrs. Nellie G. Beatty. Being a native daughter of Kansas and of Lawrence and having been during the last fifteen years in charge of the popular public library, her name is familiar in every home in the city.
Her parents were Dr. Jerome F. Griswold and Helen Mary (Hewitt) Griswold. They were among the early settlers of the free state town, and Doctor Griswold was one of the victims in the inhuman massacre of the Quantrell raid.
Nellie Griswold grew to womanhood in Lawrence and attended the public school, the high school and the state University. In college she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Down town she was connected with such organizations as the Friends in Council, the Congregational church and the Order of the Eastern Star.
She was married June 18, 1885, to W. H. Beatty. Their son, Jerome Griswold Beatty, has made an unusual success as a newspaper correspondent and short story writer. He is at present publicity director of the McClure Film Corporation. His wife was Dorothea Jane McKnight.
Source - A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918, transcribed by students from USD 508, Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter Springs, Kansas, September 7, 1999.
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Jerome Beatty was a motion picture film publicity writer, newspaper reporter, dramatic writer, and sports editor.
His career included positions with -
Essanay Film Corporation
Thanhouser Film Corporation
Player's Laskey Motion Picture Corporation - later Paramount
First National Pictures
McClure Picture Corporation
The American Magazine - Editor in 1942
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Journal
Hutchinson Gazette
New York Globe
World
Evening Mail
American Press Association
Los Angeles Express
New Orleans Statesman
New York Tribune - baseball writer
Assistant to Will H. Hays, head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), who monitored and regulated the motion picture industry after several scandals in 1920's.
He also contributed articles to Collier's, Munsey's, McClure's, Picture-Play, Photoplay, Reader's Digest.
His son, Jerome Beatty, Jr., wrote an article for The American Magazine in 1942.
Biography of Jerome's mother Nellie Griswold Beatty -
Every man, woman and child in the City of Lawrence, Kansas, knows Mrs. Nellie G. Beatty. Being a native daughter of Kansas and of Lawrence and having been during the last fifteen years in charge of the popular public library, her name is familiar in every home in the city.
Her parents were Dr. Jerome F. Griswold and Helen Mary (Hewitt) Griswold. They were among the early settlers of the free state town, and Doctor Griswold was one of the victims in the inhuman massacre of the Quantrell raid.
Nellie Griswold grew to womanhood in Lawrence and attended the public school, the high school and the state University. In college she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
Down town she was connected with such organizations as the Friends in Council, the Congregational church and the Order of the Eastern Star.
She was married June 18, 1885, to W. H. Beatty. Their son, Jerome Griswold Beatty, has made an unusual success as a newspaper correspondent and short story writer. He is at present publicity director of the McClure Film Corporation. His wife was Dorothea Jane McKnight.
Source - A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918, transcribed by students from USD 508, Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter Springs, Kansas, September 7, 1999.
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Jerome Beatty was a motion picture film publicity writer, newspaper reporter, dramatic writer, and sports editor.
His career included positions with -
Essanay Film Corporation
Thanhouser Film Corporation
Player's Laskey Motion Picture Corporation - later Paramount
First National Pictures
McClure Picture Corporation
The American Magazine - Editor in 1942
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Journal
Hutchinson Gazette
New York Globe
World
Evening Mail
American Press Association
Los Angeles Express
New Orleans Statesman
New York Tribune - baseball writer
Assistant to Will H. Hays, head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), who monitored and regulated the motion picture industry after several scandals in 1920's.
He also contributed articles to Collier's, Munsey's, McClure's, Picture-Play, Photoplay, Reader's Digest.
His son, Jerome Beatty, Jr., wrote an article for The American Magazine in 1942.
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