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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BEACH, Andrew H.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 19, 1999
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History of Kanawha County
George W. Atkinson
1876
p. 301-302
ANDREW H. BEACH
Samuel Beach came from Rockbridge county to Kanawha in i8oo, and located near
the Upper Falls of Coal river. He entered as a volunteer, in the war of 1812
with Great Britain. After his discharge at Norfolk, he started home. While
visiting friepds in Prince Edward county, he took sick, and died in the fall
of 1813.
Andrew H. Beach, son of Samuel Beach, was born in Kanawba county, February
II, 1803. He was brought up on a farm near the Upper Falls of Coal river,
where he remained until he was twenty.one years of age. During his minority,
he attended schools taught at different times by Joseph J. Strawn, E. G.
Simmons, John M. Jordan, Isaac Ashworth, John Campbell, Daniel Pauley and
others, all of whom were pioneer school teachers in this, at that time,
western country.
Mr. Beach learned the trade of a shoe-maker, and opened a shop in MaIden, in
1825, where he remained in business for four years. He then removed to
Charleston, and carried on the business of shoe and boot making for upwards
of twenty-five years.
For ten years he was a "peace officer" of the town of Charleston, in the
capacity of Constable, deputy Sheriff, and Marshal of the corporation.
For many years past he has been engaged as the proprietor of a hotel, and at
present is the owner of the Kanawha House, on Kanawha street.
Mr. Beach is about five feet seven inches tall, and his average weight for
the last half century has been about one hundred and forty pounds. He has
been a cripple for the past eight years, occasioned by a fall into a cellar,
resulting in the crushing of one of his feet and ankles. He walks about with
the assistance of a cane, but will never recover from the injuries received
from the fall.
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