Charles Coffing Beach.
Charles Coffing Beach (May 19, 1856 - February 11, 1948) was a practicing physician in Hartford, Connecticut, and medical director of the Travelers Insurance Company.
Beach was born on May 19, 1856 in Hartford, Connecticut, as the son of Joseph Watson Beach and Josephine Elizabeth Coffing. He received his early education in small private schools then flourishing in Hartford and was sent to a boys' school in Pitsfield for a short while in 1867. On his return to the city, he continued in the district schools and eventually entered Hartford Public High School in the class of 1876. During his sophomore year, however, Beach left high school and entered Yale College, from which he graduated in 1877. He almost immediately entered the scientific world and went by schooner to the Canary Islands, in the interests of the cochineal trade.
On Beach's return from the schooner trip, he entered Beach & Company, performing chemical analyses. Shortly after, he left his father's company and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, from which he was graduated a doctor in 1882. He became acquainted in Vienna, Austria, with Sigmund Freud and Arthur Schnitzler, then a celebrated laryngologist, later a dramatic literary figure. In 1885, he began the practice of medicine in Hartford, Connecticut, which he followed through with for the next 60 years. By 1887, he was appointed medical examiner for the Travelers, and a few years later, was made medical director. He also administered to the wider public as one of the city's first three police surgeons. He retired from Travelers in 1947 due to failing health.
On February 11, 1948, Beach died at his home at 54 Woodland Street at the age of 91.
Family[]
Beach married Mary Batterson in 1884.
- Joseph Watson Beach
- Goodwin Batterson Beach
- Charles Bradford Beach - m. Lucille Curtin
- Elizabeth Beach - m. (1) Llewellyn Powell (2) George C. Capen