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Moses S. Beach
Moses Sperry Beach (October 5, 1822 – July 25, 1892) was an American newspaper owner, editor, inventor, and politician from New York. His papers were the Boston Daily Times and the New York Sun. He ran the Sun through most of the American Civil War, and was active during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
He was featured in Mark Twain's book The Innocents Abroad, after embarking on the Quaker City to visit Europe and the Holy Land. He was also a great friend of abolitionist pastor Henry Ward Beecher, and was a trustee Plymouth Church, which was at the forefront of the anti-slavery movement at the time.
Beach was born on October 5, 1822, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was the son of Moses Yale Beach, proprietor of The Sun, and Nancy Day. His brother was Alfred Ely Beach, the first subway-constructor in New York, and proprietor of Scientific American, while his uncle was Benjamin Day, founder of the New York Sun. Another brother was banker William Yale Beach. His paternal grandmother was descended from the Yale family that founded Yale College, and his maternal grandmother was descended from Pilgrim William Brewster.
His cousins were Frederick Converse Beach and Stanley Yale Beach, and his great-grandson was Brewster Yale Beach. Beach attended Monson Academy, where he was taught by his uncle Rev. Alfred Ely. He left the school after several years due to his failing eyesight. In 1840, he spent a year in France learning French at an institution near Paris. He worked with his father in The Sun until 1845, when he bought half of the Boston Daily Times.
In October 1845, Beach and his brother Alfred joined their father in a partnership of The Sun. In 1848, the brothers bought out their father and took control of the newspaper. Moses Yale Beach organized a dinner before retiring. The guests included other members of the news industry such as Congressman Horace Greeley, Congressman James Brooks, and Henry Jarvis Raymond, founder of the New York Times, and Chairman of the Republicans under Abraham Lincoln. Beach owned the Sun Building and other properties in New York.
In 1852, he became the sole proprietor, with a brief gap from 1860 to 1861 when he was ill, where William Conant Church published the paper instead.[failed verification] Under Moses Sperry Beach's leadership, the Sun supported Abraham Lincoln, and was described as an out-and-out loyalist. The paper covered his day of election as well as his assassination. They refused to join other newspapers in wild abuse of Lincoln and Johnson at the 1864 National Union National Convention, and gave support to Ulysses S. Grant as its candidate for the U.S. presidency, the General who led the Union Army to victory during the American Civil War in 1865.
The Sun : The reelection of Abraham Lincoln announces to the world how firmly we have resolved to be a free and united people.
--The entry in the Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918
By the end of the war, the Sun was read by half a million people, at a time when the city of New York had less than a million population. Beach owned the paper until 1868, when he sold it to Charles A. Dana, the past Assistant Secretary of War of Abraham Lincoln and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. He also patented several inventions related to printing and stereotyping. These patents consisted of feeding the roil paper to the press instead of flat sheets, wetting the paper prior to printing, cutting off sheets after printing, and adapting newspaper presses to print both sides of the same sheet at the same time.
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Moses S. Beach
Moses Sperry Beach (October 5, 1822 – July 25, 1892) was an American newspaper owner, editor, inventor, and politician from New York. His papers were the Boston Daily Times and the New York Sun. He ran the Sun through most of the American Civil War, and was active during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
He was featured in Mark Twain's book The Innocents Abroad, after embarking on the Quaker City to visit Europe and the Holy Land. He was also a great friend of abolitionist pastor Henry Ward Beecher, and was a trustee Plymouth Church, which was at the forefront of the anti-slavery movement at the time.
Beach was born on October 5, 1822, in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was the son of Moses Yale Beach, proprietor of The Sun, and Nancy Day. His brother was Alfred Ely Beach, the first subway-constructor in New York, and proprietor of Scientific American, while his uncle was Benjamin Day, founder of the New York Sun. Another brother was banker William Yale Beach. His paternal grandmother was descended from the Yale family that founded Yale College, and his maternal grandmother was descended from Pilgrim William Brewster.
His cousins were Frederick Converse Beach and Stanley Yale Beach, and his great-grandson was Brewster Yale Beach. Beach attended Monson Academy, where he was taught by his uncle Rev. Alfred Ely. He left the school after several years due to his failing eyesight. In 1840, he spent a year in France learning French at an institution near Paris. He worked with his father in The Sun until 1845, when he bought half of the Boston Daily Times.
In October 1845, Beach and his brother Alfred joined their father in a partnership of The Sun. In 1848, the brothers bought out their father and took control of the newspaper. Moses Yale Beach organized a dinner before retiring. The guests included other members of the news industry such as Congressman Horace Greeley, Congressman James Brooks, and Henry Jarvis Raymond, founder of the New York Times, and Chairman of the Republicans under Abraham Lincoln. Beach owned the Sun Building and other properties in New York.
In 1852, he became the sole proprietor, with a brief gap from 1860 to 1861 when he was ill, where William Conant Church published the paper instead.[failed verification] Under Moses Sperry Beach's leadership, the Sun supported Abraham Lincoln, and was described as an out-and-out loyalist. The paper covered his day of election as well as his assassination. They refused to join other newspapers in wild abuse of Lincoln and Johnson at the 1864 National Union National Convention, and gave support to Ulysses S. Grant as its candidate for the U.S. presidency, the General who led the Union Army to victory during the American Civil War in 1865.
The Sun : The reelection of Abraham Lincoln announces to the world how firmly we have resolved to be a free and united people.
--The entry in the Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918
By the end of the war, the Sun was read by half a million people, at a time when the city of New York had less than a million population. Beach owned the paper until 1868, when he sold it to Charles A. Dana, the past Assistant Secretary of War of Abraham Lincoln and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. He also patented several inventions related to printing and stereotyping. These patents consisted of feeding the roil paper to the press instead of flat sheets, wetting the paper prior to printing, cutting off sheets after printing, and adapting newspaper presses to print both sides of the same sheet at the same time.