Stanley Yale Beach
Stanley Yale Beach (1877-1955) was a wealthy aviation pioneer, who was an early financier of Gustave Whitehead, the contested first maker of a powered controlled flight before the Wright brothers. He was among the first technically trained men to be involved in dynamic flight in the United States, and was an early automobilist, following the beginnings of the development of the automobile industry as Automobile Editor of Scientific American, their family scientific magazine. Early life Stanley Yale Beach was born in Stratford, Connecticut, on July 9, 1877, to Frederick Converse Beach, editor and co-proprietor of Scientific American, and Margaret A. Gilbert, members of the Yale family. His father was patent lawyer Alfred Ely Beach, who is most known for his invention of New York's first subway, the Beach Pneumatic Transit, and for his patent agency Munn & Co., with customers including Thomas Edison, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Alexander Graham Bell. Stanley's grandfather was Moses Yale Beach, the cofounder of the New York Sun, which was at the time the largest newspaper in America and the pioneer on crime reporting. His granduncle was N.Y. abolitionist politician Moses S. Beach, who ran the paper and the Boston Daily Times, supporting the candidancy of