Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Beach, Wiliam Preston March 14, 1904
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The Walnut Valley Times, March 18, 1904
The Walnut Valley Times
March 18, 1904
Volume XXXV, Number 9

Macon, Mo., March 14 – William Preston Beach, the “hatless man” of this city, 
died Saturday afternoon, a martyr to his theory. Pneumonia was the malady 
contracted. It is believed by going without his hat in all sorts of weather. 
More than twenty five years no sort of a hat has been within a foot of Mr. 
Beach’s head, unless someone else was wearing it. However, he always carried a 
fashionable tile in his hand. When it rained or snowed he used an umbrella. 
His idea was that discarding his hat cured catarah and prevented baldness. Mr. 
Beach was a lawyer. He was born in Newark, New Jersey April 19, 1840. Made 600 
miles of his trip to the west on foot.


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