Background
Beach, David Nelson was born on November 30, 1848 in S. Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Joseph Wickliff and Mary Angeline (Walkley) Beach.
Beach, David Nelson was born on November 30, 1848 in S. Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Joseph Wickliff and Mary Angeline (Walkley) Beach.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1872. Graduated from Yale Division School, 1876. B Doctorate., 1881; Doctor of Divinity, Western Reserve, 1896.
Dora Freeman, December 18, 1903 (died 1915). Married 3d. Ellen O. Walkley, October 20, 1916. Ordained Congleton ministry.
1876.
Pastor Westerly, Rhode Island, 1876-1879. Wakefield. Massachusetts, 1879-1884. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1884-1896.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1896-1898, Denver, Colorado, 1899-1902.
President and professor homiletics, Bangor Theological Seminary, 1903-1921. Preaching and writing, since 1921.
Prominent in permanently ridding Cambridge, Massachusetts, from the saloon. In local option and good civics work in Massachusetts and elsewhere: agitator for grafting modified Norwegian liquor system on Massachusetts local option laws.
Also for church unity and a better theology.
Author: Plain Words on Our Lord’s Work, 1886. The Newer Religious Thinking, 1893. How We Rose (a Resurrection parable), 1895.
The Intent of Jesus, 1896.
Statement of Belief, 1897. The Annie Laurie Mine, 1903.
Meanings of the Battle of Bennington, 1903. A Handbook of Homiletics, 1917.
Home: Southington, Connecticut
Married Lilian Tappan, December 31, 1878 (died 1902). Married 3d.