 In 1894 he married his first wife, Harriet Blaine of Maine (the daughter of James G. Blaine), and together they had a son, Walker Blaine Beale (1896 - September 18, 1918), a Lieutenant in the United States Army who was killed in action in France in World War I.After divorcing Blaine, Beale returned to California and began a law practice.On the death of his mother in 1903 he inherited Decatur House in Washington, D.C.