Beach
Beach names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Beach HARLAN PAGE, an American educator and missionary
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HARLAN PAGE, an American educator and missionary, born in South Orange, N. J., in 1854. He graduated from Yale University in 1878. For several years he taught at Phillips Andover Academy and then engaged in work in China as a missionary, serving until 1890. From 1892 to 1895 he was in charge of the School for Christian Workers in Springfield, Mass., and from 1895 was educational secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. From 1906 he was professor of the theory and practice of missions at Yale University. He wrote much on missionary and other subjects. His works include "The Cross in the Land of the Trident" (1895); "India and Christian Opportunity" (1904); "World Statistics of Christian Missions" (1906); etc. He contributed articles to magazines on religious subjects.
Beach ALFRED ELY, an American publisher and inventor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ALFRED ELY, an American publisher and inventor, born in Springfield, Mass., in 1826; son of Moses Yale Beach, editor of the old New York "Sun." In 1846 he established the "Scientific American," in connection with Orson D. Munn. For nearly 50 years he was editor of this paper and director of its patent business. In 1852 he perfected a typewriting machine, for which the American Institute awarded him a gold medal. Later he invented a system of underground pneumatic tubes, a pneumatic elevated railway, and a hydraulic shield, by the use of which a tunnel could be excavated without interfering with surface traffic. He died in New York City, Jan. 1, 1896.
Beach REX (ELLINGWOOD)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
REX (ELLINGWOOD), an American writer, born in Atwood, Mich., in 1877. He was educated at Rollins College, Fla., and studied law at the Chicago College of Law. His first novel was "Pardners," published in 1905. This was followed by a succession of novels, nearly all of which achieved great popular success. They include "The Spoilers" (1906); "The Silver Horde" (1909); "The Iron Trail" (1913); "Rain. bow's End" (1916). He also wrote, in collaboration with others, several plays attached, filled with pitch and other a frequent contributor to and was magazines. In 1917 and 1918 he was president of the Authors' League of America.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All three men's stories were unfinished when Collier's wrote in 1921. Rex Beach, then president of the Authors' League, went on writing popular adventure fiction until his death in 1949; "The Spoilers" was filmed repeatedly, most famously in 1942 with John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich. Harlan Page Beach, described as still holding his Yale chair, retired soon after and died in 1933, and the Student Volunteer Movement he served collapsed in the mid-20th century. Alfred Ely Beach's "underground pneumatic tubes" and "pneumatic elevated railway" now read as a famous dead end: his 1870 Broadway demonstration tunnel was walled up, then broken into by subway workers, and is remembered as New York's first subway rather than as a working system.
Written for this edition, 2026.