Ancestry of
Alfred Ely Beach

Co-founder & Editor, Scientific American

Mose Yale Beach

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• • Father of Alfred Ely Beach — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Moses Sperry Beach 
  • Mother:
  • Lucretia Yale   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Jan 1800 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Jul 1868 
  • Death Location:
  • Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy Day
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Nov 1819 
  • Marriage Location:
  • West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Alfred Ely Beach (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Inventor and co-founder of the New York Sun

• Sources for Mose Yale Beach

  • ¹ Eagle River Review (Eagle River, Wisconsin), 06 JAN 1896, p. 2, Obituary for son Alfred Ely Beach.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/08/2025).
  • ³ Jones, Emma C. Brewster, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower" . . ., Vol. 2, New York: The Grafton Press Genealogical Publishers (1908), 732-734.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 231.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 36.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Alfred Ely Beach", (accessed 02/08/2025).
  • ⁷ Yale, Rodney Horace, Yale Genealogy and History of Wales, Beatrice, Nebraska: n. p. (1908), 170, 237-238.