William Yale Beach

[5][6][7] The house was built by architect Henry Austin with the contractor and laborers brought from Italy, and had 16 bedrooms.

[6] Beach lived in the home and later sold the property, which became for a time, the home of Senator Frank M. Boyce, a hotel, a boarding house and a property of Choate Rosemary Hall, a school founded by Judge William Gardner Choate and a niece of Sarah S.

[7] He owned a large tract of land on South Main Street near R. Wallace & Sons, and lost over $100,000 in the housing development, as he was too early before the expansion of Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. and other silver manufacturers.

[16] He then passed most of his business career in New York and became a large real estate investor in the city.

[1] In 1883, he is recorded superintendent of a mine in Wallingford, owned by his brothers Moses S. Beach and Alfred Ely, which was attacked by Indians.

[21] He was also involved with the land donation of his father to Wallingford to establish a school named the Moses Y.

[23][2] William Yale Beach died at 75 years of age on December 10, 1910, at his home in Stratford, Connecticut.