George H. Beach Biography, Tuscola County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 961-962


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GEORGE H. BEACH. The interests of our subject in a business way are 
varied. He is a farmer, residing on section 33, Juniata Township, 
Tuscola County, where he owns eighty acres of land and is also the 
proprietor of a saw-mill at Watrousville Station. He is a son of 
Liberty and Hannah (Gaylord) Beach, natives of Madison County, N. Y., 
where George H. was born December 22, 1824. He was reared upon a farm 
and in his early boyhood came with his parents to Michigan as a pioneer 
and settled in Wayne County. He well recollects when Detroit was only a 
very small village and when paved streets were unthought of.

   Our subject was the eldest child in the parental family. They are by 
name, George H., Clarissa, Liberty, Ira, Almeda and Mary P. George 
remained at home until nineteen years of age, when he started out in 
life for himself. He began to work at fifty cents per day, but soon did 
better. January 2, 1851, he was happily married to Miss Betsey Culver, 
a daughter of Orrisseen Culver, a native of New York State, where Mrs. 
Beach was born, October 19, 1825. Our subject and his wife are the 
parents of two children. Newton, who was born March 25, 1849, and 
married Lilly Lawrence March 24, 1875; they are the parents of four 
children, Roy, May, Ralph and Helen. The other child was Avilla, who 
married Edgar Lapham and died in 1879, leaving two children. The elder, 
a boy of about fifteen years, lives with his grandfather Lapham in 
Lenawee County, and the younger, a girl of twelve years, receives the 
tender care of our subject and his wife, with whom she lives.

   Our subject came to Tuscola County in 1883 and settled at 
Watrousville, and four years ago he built the sawmill and he and his 
son Newton together conduct the same. He is an old mill man and has an 
experience in the work that extends over fifty years. Although advanced 
in years Mr. Beach still operates his own farm. He built a fine 
dwelling on section 33, in 1886, and the son another on section 28, 
where he has forty acres. Politically he is a Republican, as is also 
his son. In their church affiliations they are Methodists.




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