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Abel Beach
frontis photograph Abel Beach was born at Groton, New York on February 7, 1829. "After graduating in 1849 [from the Union College of Schenectady, New York], he taught [school in Ithaca and Westfield academies, New York, and then] Latin and Greek in the Iowa state university. He was admitted to the bar, but has never practiced law. Mr. Beach later on engaged in mercantile business in the stationary trade, and is now insurance and pension attorney at Iowa City, where he resides. His poems have appeared in the leading periodicals." [Thos. W. Herringshaw (ed.), Local and National Poets of America 120 (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1890)][online text][In the Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1898) bio of Beach, it is noted that Beach, "entered into the practiceof law; and has attained prominence as a successful pension attorney of Iowa City, Iowa."] "Mr. Beach was one of the seven original founders of Theta-Delta-Chi college fraternity organized in 1947." [Thomas W. Herringshaw (ed.), Poets and Poetry of Iowa 128 (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1894)][online text] Abel Beach Abel Beach Poetry Abel Beach, Western Airs: Choice Selections from the Miscellaneous Poems (Buffalo: The Peter Paul Book Company, 1895) [online text] _________, P.S.: The Mysteries of Life and Other Late Poems Supplemental to Western Airs (Iowa City, Iowa: [s.n.], 1897) _________, Old Settlers of Johnson County, a poem read at the annual reunion and pic-nic at Iowa City, August 18th, 1892 (Iowa City, Iowa: Republican, 1892) _________, Nature's Mood (Iowa City, Iowa, 1896) _________, Iowa: Of the West and the Sea (Iowa City, Iowa, 1896) |
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