Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Edward Fitzgerald BEALE
Minister to Austria-Hungary 1876-77. Led the experiment to use camels in the US Army. Thought to be the courier who brought news to Washinton of the discovery of gold in California. Beale Air Force Base is named for him. Married 27 June 1849 Mary Engle Edwards ca 1832 PA - 6 April 1902 daughter of Samuel Edwards, Pennsylvania Congressman 1785 -1850. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Lieut., U.S.N., dressed in Mexican disguise for his ride across Mexico in 1849 bearing Naval dispatches and the first samples of gold from California to reach Washington. Oil painting in Decatur House [Marie Beale. Edward F Beale, Envoy to Austria, adventurer, sailor, engineer, Indian Agent, introduced camels to Texas.
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