Evening star., 1936-06-02
TRUXTUNBEALE,0
DIPLOMAT, EXPIRES.
Member of Distinguished
Family Served in Many
Countries.

TruXtun Beale, 80, retired diplomat
and writer, died early today after a
short illness at his country home near
Annapolis, Md.
A member Of distinguished family
Mr.. Beale made his Washington resi-
dence in the historic Decatur House,
TAB Jackson place, which his father,
Edward Fitzgerald Beale. bought at
the close of the Civil War.
Mr.. Beale had served with diStinc-
ton as envoy to Persia, Greece. Ru-
mania and Servia and was a traveller
OF note.
A native of San Francisco, Mr.. Beale
was descendant of Sir Thomas Beale,
who was born at Woodbridge, England,
and appointed by King Charles II as
a member of the Council of Virginia in
1861. The ancestors name still is on
the pew he occupied in Bruton Parish
Church, Williamsburg, Va. Mr.. Beale's
mother was Mrs. Mary Engle Edwards
Beale.
Father Was Envoy.
His great grandfather, Commodore
Thomas TruXtun, after whom he was
named. received a gold medal from
Congress in commemoration OF his
victories over the French in 1893 and
was called "the father of the American
Navy" His father was an explorer.
hero of the Mexican War and at
one time American Minister to Austria
Hungary, where TruXtun Beale was
his private secretary.
Mr.. Beale was graduated at Ches-
ter (Pennsylvania) Military College in
1874 with the degree of civil engineer,
nfterward studying at Harvard Law
School. Interrupted by his fathers
mission to Austria Hungary, he grad
uated in 1873 from Columbia Law
School New York City. being ad-
mitted to the bar in the same year.
Afterward he travelled in Japan and
China and later managed his fathers
ranch in Kern County. Calf, where
he remained until President Harrison
in 1891, appointed him Minister to
Persia.
While in Persia he obtained permis-
sion for American missionaries to hold
land in their own right. and it was
through his representations that the
Russians finally allowed American
goods gong into Central Asia to cross
the narrow neck of land between the
Black and Caspian Seas in bond with
out paying the Russian duty.
IN 1892 Mr.. Beaie was promoted as
envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Greece and was
accredited also to Rumania and SerVia
in 1893-94 While in Greece he sue
ceeded in obtaining portion of the
Schliemann collection from ancient
Troy for the United States. These
objects are in the National Museum.
Travelled Extensively.
When he relinquished this post he
Travelled through Siberia, Central Asia
and Chinese Turkestan until 1896, re-
turning finally to the United States.
He is down on the Russianrrecords as
the first American who ever crossed
the Than Shan Mountains from ST.
IBERIA into Chinese TurkeStan. At
that time few white men of any ma
tionality had explored that part of
Asia. Crossing the trail to the Pa
Mrs, he reached Kashgar and trav-
eled into Asia to a point between
Kashgar and Yarkand. He was fol-
lowed 10 years later into that country
by Col. Oscar Crosby and 80 years
later by the Roosevelt expedition.
He had written extensively on in
ternational and economic questions for
various magazines.
He was a member of the Asiatic
Society, the Boone and Crockett Club,
the Metropolitan and Cosmos Clubs
of this city, the Knickerbocker Club
of New York City and a founder of
the Newport Reading Room.
Mr.. Beale was married twice, first
30 Harriet, daughter of James G.
Blaine, by whom he had one son,
Walker Blaine Beale. killed during the
World War in France, and, second, to
Marie, daughter of William L. Oge,
great granddaughter of Bishop Phi
lander Chase, who was the uncle of
Chief Justice Salmon p Chase.
His wife and his cousin, Miss Ca
trina Beale, were with him when he
died.
Funeral services will be held at 4
pm. Thursday at his country home,
near Annapolis. Burial will be in the
Bruton Parish Churchyard, Will
hansburg.