The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . demy, Ovid, Seneca county,N. Y. (in the palmiest days ofthat venerable institution), andat Hamilton college, Clinton,Oneida county, N. Y. Afterleaving college he engaged for atime
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . demy, Ovid, Seneca county,N. Y. (in the palmiest days ofthat venerable institution), andat Hamilton college, Clinton,Oneida county, N. Y. Afterleaving college he engaged for atime in the retail dry-goods busi-ness at Watkins, N. Y., theregaining much of that experienceand practical knowledge of therequirements of a country dry-goods trade which afterwardcontributed so largely to his success in removed to New York city in 1867, where heat once went into the wholesale drjr-goods busi-ness, in which he very soon made himself knownand felt. He was a member of the firm of P. VanVolkenburg & Co., and of Van Volkenburg, Beach& Co., from 1873 to 1879, and has been a memberof the present firm of Teflt, Weller & Co., since thelatter date. Beyond the sound constitution inheritedfrom his parents, and the early school advantageshis parents were enabled by a wise economy to givehim, Mr. Beachs present high standing is in no wisethe result of fortuitous circumstances. A manly. self-reliance was taught him with his A B Cs, andhe very early apprehended, and has ever since cher-ished, the truth that true success in life lies in an un-tiring activity tempered by a calm judgment, anddirected and controlled by principles of the strictestprobity, in private as well as in business and sociallife; and every stage of his career has illustrated thepower and attractiveness of a character built uponsnch lines. He is a director of the Hamilton loanand trust company, vice-president of the Mercantileaccident insurance society, president of the Dry-goods chronicle publishi
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