Frederick Converse Beach | |
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Born | |
Died | June 8, 1918 | (aged 70)
Education | Yale University |
Children | Stanley Yale Beach |
Parent | Alfred Ely Beach |
Relatives | Moses Yale Beach, grandfather Moses S. Beach, uncle William Yale Beach, uncle Brewster Yale Beach, cousin |
Family | Yale |
Frederick Converse Beach (March 27, 1848 – June 8, 1918), was a New York patent attorney, editor and co-owner of Scientific American, and editor-in-chief of the new Encyclopedia Americana in the early 1900s.[1] He became President of the oldest operating yacht club in Connecticut.[2] He was also the father of Stanley Yale Beach, an aviation pioneer and early financier of Gustav Whitehead.