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Frederick Converse Beach

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He secured a parcel post for the United States, brought many reforms, and looked forward to the time when aerial transport of all kinds of mail will happen by the atmosphere. He was a member of the New York Electrical Society, the
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After working on improving the telephone technology, he became the first, in 1880, to transmit sermons over the telephone, communicating from
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was a banker and real estate developer, and his cousin Charles Yale Beach was a manufacturer and real estate investor. Frederick's son was
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From 1871 to 1876, he was engaged in the manufacture of electrical instruments in New York, making telegraphs. He later became Editor for
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in the early 1900s. He became President of the oldest operating yacht club in Connecticut. He was also the father of
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He also served during the World War in the Ambulance Company, Field Hospital, and Medical Attachment, and was a
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Frederick also funded, in thousands of dollars, the airplane designs of his son Stanley from 1903–1910.
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Frederick Converse Beach was the father of Alfred Gilbert, Ethel Holbrook, who married to caricaturist
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America's successful men of affairs. An encyclopedia of contemporaneous biography, p. 66-67
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and a member of the Housatonic Yacht Club. His father was
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in 1868. In 1869, he was made night superintendent of the
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Frederick Converse Beach was born on March 27, 1848, in
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He was made President of the Housatonic 28: 366:, a wealthy aviation pioneer, partner of 346: 329:He died on June 8, 1918, at his home in 177: 633: 307:, and in 1896 he became a director of 290:, the oldest operating Yacht club in 278:in Manhattan, with members including 13: 274:, the American Institute, and the 14: 692: 516:, Number: GEN MSS 802, 1911-1948 416:, Number: GEN MSS 802, 1911-1948 336: 616: 607: 596: 568: 559: 548: 539: 528: 519: 661:Journalists from New York City 506: 497: 488: 479: 470: 459: 437: 419: 406: 1: 399: 301:In 1889 he was the editor of 379:Boston University Law Review 173: 7: 592:– via Newspapers.com. 447:. 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New York City, New York
Stratford, Connecticut
Yale University
Stanley Yale Beach
Alfred Ely Beach
Moses Yale Beach
Moses S. Beach
William Yale Beach
Brewster Yale Beach
Yale
Scientific American
editor-in-chief
Encyclopedia Americana
Stanley Yale Beach
Gustav Whitehead

Woolworth Building
Scientific American
Brooklyn, New York
Alfred Ely Beach
Moses Yale Beach
New York Sun
Moses Sperry Beach
Boston Daily Times
William Yale Beach
Stanley Yale Beach
Yale family
Sheffield Scientific School
Beach Pneumatic Transit

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