Beach, Lewis
lawyer, congressman, was born March 30, 1835, in New York city, N. Y. He graduated at the Yale Law school in 1856; was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in New York city the same year. In 1861 he removed to Orange county, N. Y., and engaged in farming and the practice of law. He was also a contributor to the press; was supervisor of the town of Cornwall in 1869; and was treasurer of the democratic state central committee from 1877 to 1879.
He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-seventh, fortyeighth, and forty-ninth congresses. He died Aug. 11, 1886, in Cornwall, N. Y.