Background
A son of the coal-operating Beurys for whom Beury, West Virginia, is named, Charles Ezra Beury graduated from Princeton University in 1903.
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Charles Beury
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Princeton University. Harvard Law School.
Career
Doctor Beury was a banker before he became a college president When he received a law degree from Harvard three years later it was in absentia because that day he was marrying the Lutheran pastor"s daughter in his native Shamokin, Pennsylvania. His stock joke: "I became a bachelor and a benedict on the same day."
A career as lawyer and banker brought him to Temple"s board of trustees where Russell Conwell spotted him as a likely successor.
After his election Beury tried for a while to be both president of Temple University and board chairman of Bank of Philadelphia & Trust Company
In 1930 the bank was merged with Bankers Trust Company of Philadelphia and Beury stepped out of the chairmanship. Few months later, Bankers Trust Company went down with a resounding crash.
With Temple, Beury fared much better. Raising $6,000,000, he built a twelve-story classroom building, a student centre, and a new plant for the school of medicine.
He acquired a school of chiropody.
In 1932 he signed up Glenn Scobey Warner to coach football in what was at the time a new stadium. In 1934, with private benefactions dried up, Beury turned to the Public Works Administration for $550,000 to complete the building.
