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Town of BEACH in Noth Dakota

Town of BEACH in Noth Dakota

Robert "Fred" Beach (View posts)
Posted: 30 Dec 2003 6:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
Happy New Year you lot in the US - from Beach's in UK
I was messing around looking at the US map, so many places are named after people, so I typed in Beach and up it came, right in the centre of North America, something told me this may be named after someone called Beach, because it's a long walk to paddle in the Ocean. Come on admit it, you didn't know there was a place named Beach, or did you.
An e-mail to the local history group led to a swift reply, very kind of them, here it is -
Beach is named for Captain Warren C. Beach of the 11th infantry USA, who served in the military escort of the NPRR surveyors in 1873, known as the Stanley Railroad Survey Expedition. The track was completed to this point and on to the Dakota-Montana territorial line five and one-half miles farther west that year. The post office was established October 27, 1902 with Frank E. Heath, postmaster. When the county was organized, Beach was the designated county seat.
From Origins of North Dakota Place Names by Mary Ann Barnes Williams
1880 census shows he was born in New York 1849, at the time of the census he was in the household of an Irish fella
Patrick Daly in Billings, Dakota.
An interesting story, does anyone know any more about him ? was his family American or born in the UK ? did he continue to live in Dakota, are there Beach families there today?
Members of my Great grandmothers family were Mormons, they arrived in the US heading for Utah, Benjamin Meek died on the plains west of Wyoming, Ben jnr was born Kaysville 1866. what route was used to reach Utah back then, I imagine they arrived in New York, was there a trail name, like the "Oregon trail," enough questions, all the best FRED

Re: Town of BEACH in Noth Dakota

Posted: 8 May 2015 4:30AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Beach
My father was born in Beach, North Dakota in 1917. My family says the town founding father was not any relation. Haven't checked this out tho. Just started this genealogy thing. Have a ways to go. His father was Troy Elsworth or Troy Edwin, maybe even another 'E' initial. (He had two or three brothers whom, as the story goes, came with across the 'big pond') Troy married Ella Cramer or Kramer. They moved to Kansas in about 1919. (That is also in the middle of our country, smile)
They/we also have relatives in Billings, whom I have met, but I didn't have the time nor inclination to ask the important questions. Duh. Would like to know any or all things related if indeed this is any connection. stbstb2005@yahoo.com
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