Warren Wallace Beckwith

Warren Wallace Beckwith Sr. (August 10, 1874 – September 24, 1955) was an American sportsman who served as a minor league baseball player during the late 1800s.

After Kemper Hall, he attended Iowa Wesleyan University, where he was a quarterback on the football team.

[5] Jessie had told her mother that she was going shopping with friends, and instead rendezvoused with Beckwith to travel to Milwaukee and get married.

[7] The marriage made The New York Times, with a headline that read "R.T. LINCOLN'S DAUGHTER WEDS; Marries an Iowa Man to Whom Her Parents Objected".

[10] After Beckwith's marriage to Jessie, The New York Times covered his very next game at Iowa Wesleyan University, that being the Iowa Wesleyan Tigers versus the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons (a now defunct college).

[11] When Jessie was four months pregnant, Beckwith tried out for and was signed to the pro baseball team in Ottumwa, Iowa, in March 1898.

Together they had son Warren Wallace Beckwith, Jr., who became an oceanographer and worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

[2] Warren Wallace Beckwith, Jr. married Barbara Olson, whom he survived when she died on March 1, 2014.

[14] Beckwith moved to La Jolla, California in 1938, where he spent his time hunting and golfing.