Samuel Bellamy Beach

Samuel Bellamy Beach (ca. 1780 – July 31, 1866) was an American author, publisher, manufacturer, and postal official.

Early life and education Beach was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, and raised in Whitestown, New York, the son of Ashbel Beach and Anna Bellamy Beach. He graduated from Yale College in 1805.

Career In 1822, Beach published a poem of 109 pages, titled Escalala, an American Tale. In 1837, after the election of President Martin Van Buren, he was appointed to a clerkship in the Post Office Department at Washington, in which department he remained for most of the time until after President Abraham Lincoln's election. He was long a resident of Oneonta, New York, and identified with many public improvements there. He was the original projector of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad.