The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-17
C0I AI|ST|N BEACH IS FOUND
DEAD IN CHAIR At HIS HOME
WAS A FORMER WE'LL KNOWN
NEWSPAPER MAN OF TA1s
CITY,
Began Els Career on The 1ntens enoer'
In Pittsburgh the Past Twenty
Five Years.

Mr.. Austin Beach. former we'll
known newspaper man Of THO. city, was
discovered dead in chair at his nome
in the King Edward apartments cary
csierdny morning. The immeola|e
cause OF his death was heart dlseasc'
Mr.. Beach had celebrated the 51th an
niversary Of his birth last Sunday. Flc
cam. To this city from Northfield. conn.,
with his fnther, \. II. Beach. in 1850 ne
was educated in the. public schooIs u
Wheeling. His carly inclnations we're
towards the newspaper business Which,
he entered quite young beginning III
I'm humble capacity on The lnteiAgence''
GIs training in this work was &C
ou.red in the local news departments OIL
,hc Register and Inteliigencer under the
CITY cditorships Of Harry 7. Black anu
VIII & Faris. He afterwards became
associated with Philip Henry Moore OF
thr Dhin Valley Manufacturer. Leaving
there he entered the service GI the BLOCH
Brothers, tobacco manufacturers d.
travelling salesman. The old call OF tne
mcneil however was still strong in him
and in 1892 he left Wheeling to take a
nosltion under Mr.. Charles G. Howell
another graduate Of Wheeling newspa-
nor offices. then city editor OF the lal'
Christophec Magees paper. the Plus
burch Times On Mr.. Howells retire
ment from that office he became CIT!
editor. On this paper he distinguished
himself as a correspondent for his paper
In Cuba during the Spanish-American
, war.
Leaving the Times he filed the POSI-
,ion of city editor on the Pittsourgh
nispatch for some years. and at that
time had re aimed for himself a reputa,
tiop Of being one Of the best detail
mon" in Pittsburgh.
was Hospital superintendent.
AGAIN he departed from his chosen
work In accepting the Superlntcndenc9
of The South Side hospital. Pittsburgh
through the political Influence OIL chris
,nphcr Magec. then Il political power IN
western Pennsylvania. When the o'o
Pittsburgh Gazette was purchased by
The Hon. George r. Oliver. Mr.. Beach
became the city editor Of that paper
and So continued when the GaZette ap-
snrbed the old Times on the death OF
Mr.. Macrr. He retired from the Ga
znttc-Timcs IT. l9JN and soon thereafter
urair affiliated himself with the man
nrcmcnt Of the Dispatch. remaining
. there in an important executive position
until his death.
MIR, Beach WAS married September ~.
1915. 10 Mrs Louisa Is. Vail, or For
cstviIlc. suburb of Hartford. Conn.,
who survives him. besides few distant
i relatives in that state.
During his entire residence in this
city Mr.. Beach lived with his rather AZ
the S,amn hotel. His fathers death a
few. yexrs ago was Il hard blow to him.
and his nlial devotion TO his memory Is
! evidenced Ivy the handsome tablet ne
had placed in the Greenwood mausoleum
t. his memory.
Funeral services over his remains
will to held n; the King Edward apart
mcnis. Pittsburgh. Thursday afternoon
at o'clock, under auspices OF Tancreo
I Commandry. Knights Tcmplar. Fricnds
are invited to the funeral" 1nterment
; will h. private: In accordance with his
request: his body will be cremated. MS
was his father before him. and the
ASHES inferred beside those of his rather
and mother in thcsfamily burial plat at
Terryvillc. Conn.