Nelson J. Beach
Nelson John Beach (September 21, 1800 Hebron, Tolland County, Connecticut - February 22, 1876 Watson, Lewis County, New York) was an American surveyor, businessman and politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of John Beach (1770–1845). The family removed from Litchfield, Connecticut, to Watson, NY, in 1814. He married Emily Porter, and their children were George Byron Beach (d. 1870) and Anna Lydia Beach.
Beach became a land surveyor, and was engaged on the survey of a highway through the wilderness, projected to run from Crown Point on Lake Champlain to Carthage, Jefferson County, New York.
An Act, passed on March 29, 1828, by the
He was Supervisor of the Town of Watson from 1831 to 1834, from 1837 to 1838, and in 1845. He was a
He was one of the first three
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him Assessor of Internal Revenue for the counties of Jefferson, Lewis and Herkimer.
See also
Sources
- Laws of the State of New York (Fifty-first Session, 1828)
- Short bio in A History of Lewis County, in the State of New York: From the Beginning of Its Settlement to the Present Time by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Munsell & Rowland, Albany NY, 1860; pages 218f)
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 42f, 135, 138, 232 and 258; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- Obit of his son G. B. Beach, in NYT on August 12, 1870
- Bios of canal engineers, at Rochester History