Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Warren Wallace BECKWITH
Warren Wallace Beckwith's mother died when he was five years old and his father, Warren Beckwith, once general manager of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad raised him. He was 24 years old when he eloped to Milwaukee in 1897 with Jessie Lincoln, then 22. Theirs had been a college romance. Jessie had been a society belle and Beckwith the star right halfback on the football team of Iowa Weselyn College at Mt. Pleasant.
Parents vigorously disapproved of their daughters socializing with or marrying ballplayers. When Robert Todd Lincoln's daughter married White Stockings pitcher Warren Beckwith, he reproved his son-in-law as a "baseball buffoon" and did not rest until he had destroyed their marriage(1). However, in a newspaper article in the Mount Pleasant News on march 22, 1952, Beckwith said that this wasn't true, that it was Mrs. Lincoln who was always interferring in the marriage (2). She kept taking Jessie and the children on trips and away from her husband. It was Warren Beckwith who filed for divorce. He never saw the children again.
Beckwith was a captain in the field artillary during World War I spending most of his time in France. Once when passing through Washington DC in 1917, he telephoned Jessie and asked to see the children (2). She denied his request.
Beckman was an excellent baseball player in those days, and had several seasons at third base with Dallas, Texas and Sacremento California minor league teams. He was a semi-professional baseball player in Chicago. One of Beckwith's proudest possessions was membership to the Old Time Baseball Players Association.
Beckwith's second marriage was to Blanche Cutter of Amora, Illinois, in 1907, soon after his divorce from Jessie. They, too, were divorced in 1921 and she remarried. Their son, Phillip, was a technical manager of the Union box company of Savannah, Georgia. In 1924, Warren Wallace married Vera Ward of Asheville, North Carolina. They had a son Wallace Warren Beckwith who was an oceanolgist with the Scripps Institute in LaJolia.
In his final years of life, Beckwith lived on the income from an estate left by his father. He lived in a delightful flower girdled house above the Pacific Surf in San Diego. He had been at LaJolla since 1938 and was an active hunter and golfer until a heart ailment curtailed his activity. Warren Wallace Beckwith died in 1955 in California.
Source:
1. Touching Base: A Professional Baseball and American Culture by Steven A. Ross. Published in 1999, University of Illinois Press.
2. Mount Pleasant News; Mt Pleasant Iowa; March 22, 1952.
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