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About Moses Yale Beach
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Moses Yale Beach (January 7, 1800 – July 18, 1868) was an American inventor and publisher who started the Associated Press.
He was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. His father was a plain farmer, and gave him an ordinary education. He early showed a mechanical aptitude, and at 14 was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker. Before his term was up, he purchased his freedom and established a cabinet making business in Northampton, Massachusetts. The business failed, and he moved to Springfield. There he endeavored to manufacture a gunpowder engine for propelling balloons; but this enterprise was also a failure. He next attempted to open steam navigation on Connecticut river between Hartford and Springfield, and would have succeeded if financial difficulties had not obliged him to cease operations before his steamer was completed.
He then invented a rag-cutting machine for paper mills. The invention was widely used, but Beach derived no pecuniary benefit due to his tardiness in applying for a patent. He then settled in Ulster County, New York, where he invested in an extensive paper mill. At first he was successful, and after six years was wealthy; but after seven years an imprudent investment dispersed his fortune, and he was compelled to abandon his enterprise.
In the meantime though, he had married the sister of the founder and proprietor of the New York Sun, Benjamin Day. In 1835, he acquired an interest in the paper, then small, both in the size of its sheet and circulation. And with a $40,000 payment, he soon became sole proprietor.
During the Mexican–American War, U.S. President James K. Polk sent him to Mexico to arrange a treaty of peace; but the negotiations were broken off by a false report announcing the defeat of General Zachary Taylor by Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
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Moses Yale Beach (January 7, 1800 – July 18, 1868) was an American inventor and publisher born in Wallingford, Connecticut. He is best known as the man who founded the Associated Press. He was a descendant of Elihu Yale, an early benefactor of Yale University.
Moses came from a farming family in Wallingford and received an ordinary education. He began working as a cabinetmaker at 14, and by 18 years old he had savings of $400 which he used to start a cabinet making business in Northampton, Massachusetts.
When the cabinet making business failed, Moses moved to Springfield, MA and tried inventing a gunpowder engine for propelling balloons. That idea turned out to be a dud as well.
Moses then turned his attention to building a steam boat that could ferry passengers across the Connecticut river between Hartford and Springfield, but financial difficulties caused him to stop working on his steamer before it was finished, another setback in his early life.
Moses married Julia Ann Beach, the sister of Benjamin Day, founder of the New York Sun. The New York Sun was established in 1833 and was the first penny press newspaper in the United States.
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Moses Yale Beach's Timeline
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January 7, 1800
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Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
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1825
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September 1, 1826
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Springfield, Hampden, MA, United States
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July 17, 1828
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July 18, 1868
Age 68
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Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
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