biography
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| lived:
| (1800–68)
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| biography:
| Publisher and inventor, born in Wallingford, Connecticut, USA. Apprenticed to a cabinetmaker at an early age, he later worked on his own and developed several inventions, including rag-cutting machinery that eased the making of paper. In 1838 he bought the New York Sun from Benjamin H Day, his brother-in-law. As editor until 1848, he organized a news syndicate and, in a competition with James Gordon Bennett's aggressive New York Herald, stressed efforts to gather news rapidly. As circulation declined, Beach sold the paper (1860) to a Christian revivalist, who gave it back after a year. In 1868 he sold it to Charles Anderson Dana. |
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