Abel Beach (February 7, 1829 – June 19, 1899), born in Groton, New York, was a well-known poet and one of the six founders of the international fraternity

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Biography

After graduating from

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in 1849, he taught

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and

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at the

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. Abel Beach owned a business involved in the stationary trade, and was later an insurance and pension attorney in

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. His poems appeared in the leading literary periodicals of the time. Abel Beach was one of the six original founders of international

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, founded in 1847.

Poetry

*Abel Beach, ''Western Airs: Choice Selections from the Miscellaneous Poems'' (Buffalo: The Peter Paul Book Company, 1895) *''_________, P.S.: The Mysteries of Life and Other Late Poems Supplemental to Western Airs'' (Iowa City, Iowa: .n. 1897)

Poems

*Abel Beach, ''Old Settlers of Johnson County, a poem read at the annual reunion and pic-nic at Iowa City, August 18, 1892'' (Iowa City, Iowa: Republican, 1892)

External links

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