Frederick Converse Beach (March 27, 1848 – June 8, 1918), was a New York patent attorney, editor and co-owner of Scientific American, and editor-in-chief of the new Encyclopedia Americana in the early 1900s.

[2] He was also the father of Stanley Yale Beach, an aviation pioneer and early financier of Gustav Whitehead.

He was also co-owner of Munn and Company, a family owned patent agency, and American Photography magazine.

[9] He secured a parcel post for the United States, brought many reforms, and looked forward to the time when aerial transport of all kinds of mail will happen by the atmosphere.

[18] He also served during the World War in the Ambulance Company, Field Hospital, and Medical Attachment, and was a Freemason of the American Legion and a member of the Housatonic Yacht Club.