ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: BEACH, Will Lake M.D. (published 1925)

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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 200

        WILL LAKE BEACH, M.D.  Engaged in general practice as a physician
and surgeon at Newton Falls. Doctor Beach is a member of an old family in
Northeastern Ohio, spent his early life on the farm, and at first studied,
veterinary medicine, afterward taking up the work of his chosen profession.
        He was born at Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio, December 28, 1890.
His father, Wesley L. Beach was born at Mayfield, Ohio, in 1845, was reared
there, was married at Mentor, and for a number of years carried on his
farming operations at Chester. In 1889 he moved to Geneva, and lived there
until his death in 1918. He was well known for the success he had
developing farms, and was a dealer in farm hands and real estate. He was a
republican, and a very active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By
his marriage he had two children: Belle, wife of Charles Eaton, a gardener
of Girard, Pennsylvania; and Charles, a mechanic, who died at the age of
twenty-three. By his marriage to Julia Clark, who was born at Mentor
Headlands, Ohio, in 1855, and now lives at Geneva, there were ten children:
Ellen B., a graduate nurse living at Geneva, widow of LeRoy Hayward, who
lost his life in a railroad accident while a locomotive fireman; Burr A., a
professor in the University of Wisconsin, at Madison; Jeannette, wife of
Albert Nelson, a former banker, now living at Trinidad, Colorado; Arda,
wife of Nels Nelson, a railroad engineer living at Ashtabula; Dr. Will
Lake; Ruth A.., who lives at Salem, Ohio and is engaged in Red Cross work;
Carrie, a kindergarten teacher at Geneva; Elizabeth, an employe of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Allen Penfield, an automobile mechanic at Geneva.
        Will Lake Beach attended the public schools of Geneva, graduating
from high school there in 1910. After a year on the home farm he entered
Ohio State University, taking the course in veterinary medicine. He was
graduated with the degree Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1915.
Subsequently he enrolled in the regular medical department of Ohio State
University, finishing the course and receiving the Doctor of Medicine
degree in 1920. In the meantime he had enlisted for service in the medical
corps at the time of the World war, and was held in training from December,
1917, until after the armistice, when he was given an honorable discharge.
Doctor Beach is a member of the Alpha Psi Veterinary fraternity, Phi Rho
Sigma medical fraternity, and Phi Sigma Honorary Biological fraternity.
During 1920-21 he remained at Columbus as an interne at the Protestant
Hospital, and since then has been engaged in a very successful general
practice of Newton Falls. He is a member of the Trumbull County and Ohio
state Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. His offices
are at the corner of Broad and Center Streets in Newton Falls.
        Doctor Beach is a republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Geneva Lodge No. 334 of the Masonic Order at Geneva, and Ali Baba
Grotto of Masons at Warren. He also belongs to Newton Falls Lodge, Knights
of Pythias.
        At Madison, Ohio, August 16, 1921, he married Miss Mildred Jane
Warren, daughter of Charles O. and Lucy (Pomeroy) Warren, resident of
Painesville, where her father is a merchant.


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