Beach, Alfred E – Beall, Rezin
Beach, Alfred E
inventor, journalist, was born in 1826 in Springfield, Mass. He received an academic education, and in 1846, with Orson D. Munn, founded the firm of Munn and Co., and they became proprietors of The Scientific American. For almost fifty years he has been active in the editorship of this newspaper and in the extensive patent business of the firm. In 1847 he invented a typewriting machine.
Beach, Charles Fisk
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Sept. 5, 1827, in Hunter, N. Y. During 1851-54 he attended the Auburn Theological seminary, and was ordained to the ministry on Jan. 8, 1855. He at once entered active work as pastor of the presbyterian church; and for nearly twenty-two years successfully followed that vocation. During 1874-95 he was editor and publisher of The National Presbyterian and Expositor; and also of the International Sunday School Lessons. Since 1897 he has given his attention to law, with an office in Indianapolis, Ind. He is the author of Commentaries on the Law of Trust and Trustees; and other works.
Beach, Clifton Bailey
lawyer, manufacturer, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1845, in Sharon, Ohio. He removed to Cleveland in 1857, where he has since resided; was educated in the common schools and Western Reserve college, class of 1871; was admitted to the bar in 1872, but retired from active practice in 1884, having become extensively engaged in manufacturing enterprises. He was elected to the fifty-fourth, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Beach, David Nelson
clergyman, author, was born in 1848 in New Jersey.
He is a prominent congregational clergyman of Cambridge, Mass., and since 1895 of Minneapolis, Minn. He is the author of The Newer Religious Thinking; How We Rose; Plain Words on Our Lord's Work; and The Intent of Jesus.
Beach, Henry Harris Aubrey
physician, was born Dec. 18, 1843, in Middletown, Conn. He was educated at Cambridge, and was graduated at Harvard Medical school in July, 1868, settling in Boston soon afterward. He is a member of many medical associations, and in 1873 was president of the Boylston Medical society. He became assistant demonstrator of anatomy in Harvard Medical school in 1868, and surgeon in the Massachusetts general hospital in 1872. He has contributed many papers to medical periodicals, and was at one time assistant editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
Beach, John N
merchant, was born Aug. 1, 1837, in Lodi, N. Y. He located in New York city; entered the dry-goods business; and has been a member of the present firm of Tefft, Weller and Co. since 1879. He is vice-president of the Mercantile Accident Insurance company, and president of the Dry-Goods Chronicle Publishing association.
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.
Beach, Myron Walter
soldier, lawyer, was born Aug. 27, 1844, in Lagrange, Mich. During the civil war he was a member of company I, first regiment Michigan sharpshooters. In 1870 he was admitted to the bar, and has attained success in his profession at Carroll, Iowa. He has been county superintendent of schools and mayor of his city; and has filled various other public positions of trust.
Beach, William Austin
lawyer, was born Aug. 22, 1842, in Baldwinsville, N. Y. He has attained success as a prominent lawyer; and in 1885 received the appointment of collector of internal revenue for the twenty-first district of New York.
Beadle, John Hanson
journalist, author, was born March 14, 1840, in Parke county, Ind. He was educated at the university of Michigan, and served as a Union soldier during the civil war. He traveled extensively in America and Europe, and for many years was editorial writer for the American Press association. He was the author of Life in Utah; The Undeveloped West; Western Wilds; and other works. He died Jan. 15, 1897, in Rockville, Ind.
Beadle, William Henry Harri- Son
soldier, legislator, educator, college president, was born Jan. 1, 1838, in Parke county, Ind. He graduated from the university of Michigan in 1861. He served during the civil war from first lieutenant to brevet brigadier-general United States volunteers. He was a member of the legislature of Dakota territory; and served as superintendent of public instruction during 1819-85. He is the founder of the school system of the territory and state; and his most distinguished and enduring service was in securing the constitutional protection to the school lands and school funds of the state. He is the author of the provisions on education in the state constitution, and the upbuilder of the State Normal school of Madison, S. D., of which he has been president since 1889.
Beakman, Daniel Frederick
soldier, was born about 1760 in New Jersey. He was the last surviving soldier of the revolution on the pension list.
In 1778 he was enrolled in the militia, and then served in the war. His married life extended over eighty-five years, and his wife reached the age of one hundred and five. In 1867 congress passed a special act giving him a pension of $500 during the remainder of his life. He died April 5, 1869, in Sandusky, N. Y.
Beal, Abraham
philanthropist, was born about 1803 in Chatham, England. He became very familiar with the criminal laws of New York and other states, and in 1863 assumed the general agency of the New York Prison association. He was for many years an efficient officer of the New York Port society. He died Feb. 25, 1872, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Beal, C. W
journalist, state senator, was born April 25, 1860, in Audrain county, Mo. In 1890 he assumed editorial control of the Custer County Beacon, with which paper he is still connected. He was elected to the house of representatives of the legislature in 1893, and was elected to the state senate on the populist ticket in 1896.
Beal, Foster Ellenborough Lascelles
naturalist, author, was born Jan. 9, 1840, in Ayer, Mass. He was graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1871. During 1874-75 he was assistant professor of mathematics in the United States naval academy at Annapolis, Md., and from 1876 till 1882 professor of civil engineering in Iowa Agricultural college, where from 1879 till 1882 he was also acting professor of zoölogy and comparative anatomy, and in 1883 professor of geology. His writings, principally on topics of natural history, include the articles, Birds of Iowa; Value of the Seed-Eating Birds; and similar contributions to scientific journals. as
Beal, George Lafayette
soldier, was born May 21, 1825, in Norway, Maine. He left Portland in 1861 colonel of the tenth Maine regiment. He was appointed by the president brigadiergeneral of volunteers in 1864, and was mustered out of the service in 1866.
Beal, William James
educator, botanist, author, was born March 11, 1833, in Adrian, Mich. He has taught natural history, science, botany, and horticulture in the leading agricultural colleges in America; and since 1870 has been professor of botany and forestry in the Agricultural college of Michigan. He has filled numerous positions of honor; is the author of The New Botany; Grasses of North America; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Beale, Charles L
lawyer, congressman, was born March 5, 1824, in Canaan, N. Y. In 1858 he was elected a representative to the thirty-sixth congress from New York; in 1864 was a presidential elector; and was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866.
Beale, Charles Willing
was born in 1845 in the District of Columbia.
He is a successful writer, and the author of The Ghost of Guir House.
Beale, Edward Fitzgerald
soldier, diplomatist, was born Feb. 4, 1822, in Washington, D. C. In 1875 he was appointed United States minister to Austria.
Beale, James M. H
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837, and from 1849 τo 1853.
Beale, Mrs. Maria
author, was born in 1849 in Virginia. She is a novelist of Arden, N. C.; and the author of Jack O'Doon.
Beale, Richard Lee Tuber- Ville
general, lawyer, congressman, was born May 22, 1819, in Hickory Hill, Va. He was a representative from Virginia in the congress of the United States in 1847-49; and was a member of the convention to form a constitution for Virginia in 1851. He was a member of the state senate of Virginia in 1858-60. He was in the service of the confederate states, and became a brigadier-general.
He was elected to fill the vacancy in the forty-fifth congress caused by the death of B. B. Douglas. He had previously been elected to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.
Beall, John Yates
adventurer, was born about 1833 in Virginia. He entered the confederate army at the outbreak of the civil war, and was commissioned acting paymaster in the navy. He was captured by the federals; tried and found guilty of being a spy; and was executed Feb. 25, 1865.
Beall, Rezin
soldier, congressman, was born Aug. 10, 1770, in Pennsylvania.
He was an officer in Wayne's army, with Harrison and Van Rensselaer; occupied various public stations in Ohio; and was a member of congress from that state from 1813 to 1814, when he resigned. He died Feb. 20, 1843, in Wooster, Ohio.