Moses S. Beach

Moses Sperry Beach (October 5, 1822 – July 25, 1892) was an American newspaper owner, editor, inventor, and politician from New York.

He was featured in Mark Twain's book The Innocents Abroad, after embarking on the Quaker City to visit Europe and the Holy Land.

He was also a great friend of abolitionist pastor Henry Ward Beecher, and was a trustee Plymouth Church, which was at the forefront of the anti-slavery movement at the time.

[9][failed verification] Under Moses Sperry Beach's leadership, the Sun supported Abraham Lincoln, and was described as an out-and-out loyalist.

[11] The Sun : The reelection of Abraham Lincoln announces to the world how firmly we have resolved to be a free and united people.

[13] Beach owned the paper until 1868, when he sold it to Charles A. Dana, the past Assistant Secretary of War of Abraham Lincoln and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

[22] His son Charles Yale Beach was a manufacturer and real estate investor, with holdings in New Haven and Bridgeport, and was a correspondent of Mark Twain.

[1] He was also superintendent of its Sunday school, and a close friend of its pastor, Henry Ward Beecher, an ardent abolitionist.

[27] The Beecher family were great friends of the Beaches, being neighbors in Brooklyn, and are featured in the Pulitzer book The Most Famous Man in America.

[28] The families were also living next to each other at Peekskill, New York, as Beach followed his friend Henry Beecher and bought land next to his farm on the Beecher-McFadden Estate.

[31][32] Visitors of Beecher in Peekskill included his sister Harriet, abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".