Samuel Bellamy Beach

In 1822, Beach published a poem of 109 pages, titled Escalala, an American Tale.^[3][4][5] In 1837, after the election of President Martin Van Buren, he was appointed to a clerkship in the Post Office Department at Washington, in which department he remained for most of the time until after President Abraham Lincoln's election. He was long a resident of Oneonta, New York, and identified with many public improvements there. He was the original projector of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad.^[1]

Beach married twice, to Ann Porter in 1815 and to Martha M. Bates after 1834; they had several children. He died in Oneonta in 1866, in his mid-eighties.^[1] In 1867, his youngest son Victor killed his mother, Martha Bates Beach; Victor survived a suicide attempt at the same time, and was institutionalized after the incident.^[6]

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