Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Beach, Isaac Toucey 1832 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

ISAAC TOUCEY BEACH, of Almont, was born in Hartford, Conn., November 2, 1832. He
is a son of George and Maria (Nichols) Beach, natives of Connecticut and of
English ancestry. Our subject was reared in his native city, receiving there an
academic education. He came to Michigan in 1854, and located in the village of
Almont, where he engaged in the mercantile business for three years. Our subject
purchased a farm in Attica Township, Lapeer County, and lived on it a number of
years. He was married, January 2, 1855, to Miss Clara Fancher, of Attica
Township, a daughter of Richard and Betsy (Smith) Fancher, natives of New York.
They came to Michigan in 1832. Her grandfather Fancher was a Revolutionary
soldier. Mr. Beach is a Democrat in politics and has received the compliment
from his party of being elected to various township offices. He has been
Township Clerk of Attica and has served on the Board of Trustees a number of
times. He has also served as President of the Village Board, having been first
elected in 1871, and about twelve or fourteen times since. He was largely
instrumental in having the city water works put in, and while on the School
Board strongly advocated the building of the fine new schoolhouse which is such
a credit to the town.

  Our subject was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Congregational
Society at the time of the erection of the present church, and he contributed
both of his time and means to the success of the work. Mr. Beach is the
fourteenth child in a family of seventeen, fifteen of whom grew to maturity and
six are now living. His father was three times married and our subject belongs
to the second family. His brother, Walter P., was the only other one of the
family to come to Michigan. He was for some time identified with Almont, but now
lives in Ypsilanti. Our subject's father was Cashier of the Phoenix Bank at
Hartford, Conn., for twenty-five years; he was also President of the same
twenty-five years, resigning the latter position two years before his death,
which occurred May 3, 1860. He was born November 29, 1788. There is on record in
one of the Connecticut towns the fact that one of the great-grandmothers of our
subject, Mrs. Beach, ran two thousand and two bullets from the leaden statue of
King George which was stolen from the battery in New York. Our subject's father
was a direct descendant of Gov. Bradford who came over in the "Mayflower," and
of Thomas Steele, who founded the city of Hartford, Conn. From 1885 to 1891 our
subject was engaged in the lumber trade in Cleveland, Ohio, and at the present
time he is a member of the firm which is manufacturing lumber at St. Albans, W.
Va. He owns eighty acres of land on section 6, Almont Township. Our subject has
but one child, Mrs. Marie Haywood, of Cleveland, Ohio.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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