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FATHER
Benjamin Beecher |
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MOTHER
Huldah Foster Yale |
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BIRTH: 27 Apr 1843, Connecticut
BAPTISM:
IMMIGRATION:
DEATH: 29 Sep 1893, probably Brooklyn, NY
BURIAL:
SPOUSE: Jessie Eunison / Eunson, b. 25 Aug 1846, Scotland, d. 26 Apr 1911
MARRIAGE: abt. 1866
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Children
Charlotte Beecher
Edward E. Beecher
Louisa G. Beecher
Clarence Yale Beecher II
William P. Beecher |
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SOURCES
Census
1870, Clarence Beecher, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, Ward 2
1880, Clarence Y. Beecher, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, District 60
1900, Jessie Beecher, Brooklyn, Ward 22, Kings Co., NY, ED375
1910, Jessie Beecher, Brooklyn, Ward 22, Kings Co., NY, ED553
Directories
Brooklyn, NY 1888-1890,
Clarence Y. Beecher, 354 11th, police
Newspaper Articles
Brooklyn Daily Eagle {There are additional articles mentioning
"Officer Beecher" which are not cited.]
1872, Nov. 14, p.3. LAW INTELLIGENCE. Court of Sessions...Alleged Outrage
by a Policman
1872, Nov. 15, p.4. ROUNDSMAN BEECHER. A Conviction for a Police Outrage.
A Citizen Shot in Defending his Wife from Arrest.
1874, July 24, p.3. ANOTHER POLICE OUTRAGE. A Citizen Has a Hole Punched
in his Head at Myrtle Avenue Park by a Policman, who Brags of his
Influence at Headquarters.
1877, Jul 22, p.2. BEECHER--Clarence Y. Beecher, alias Mamma's Boy...
1880, July 15, p.3. PROPSECT LODGE KNIGHTS OF HONOR
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BIOGRAPHY
Clarence Yale Beecher is generally referred to as Clarence Y. Beecher. His
Civil War Record lists him as Clarence Y. B. Beecher. He was born in
Connecticut in 1843 and enlisted in the Union Army January 14, 1862, as a
"Quartermaster Sergeant." On February 25th he was assigned to Company M,
1st Heavy Artillery Regiment of Connecticut. A year later, on 10 March
1863, he was reduced in rank to a "Full Private." He reenlisted in Company
M on February 9, 1864 and was promoted to Full Lieutenant 1st Class on 14
August 1864 with Company D of the 61st New York Infantry. On February 14,
1865 he was promoted to Full Captain in the same company and was dismissed
on a year later on February 14th. He applied for a pension and upon his
death his widow Jessie continued to receive the pension until her death in
1911.
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Clarence Beecher married Jessie Eunison, an immigrant from Scotland,
probably about 1866. Her name may also be spelled Jessie Eunson or Jessie
Eunsin. In the 1900 census Jessie states she immigrated in 1852, but the
1910 census records 1871.
Clarence was working as a bookkeeper in 1870. Shortly
thereafter he became a policeman in Brooklyn as early as 1872, when
he is referred to as an officer. Several years later he is mentioned as a
mounted police officer. Clarence may have had a knack for getting into
trouble and possibly had a hot temper when it came to any question of his
authority as a police officer. In 1872 he was charged with "felonious
assault upon John Long." When Beecher and Roundsman William See attempted
to arrest Mrs. Long, her husband, and the other men accompanying them,
resisted. A fracas ensued, "in which the policmen were pretty badly beaten
and Mr. John Long was shot in the leg by a pistol in the hands of
Beecher." The jury rendered a verdict of "guilty of assault and battery"
against Beecher. The sentence imposed wasn't mentioned.
Two years later Beecher got into another tussle with Mr. Samuel Greenwood,
Jr. The encounter ended when Greenwood "was struck an unmerciful blow on
the head with a club, which knocked him senseless," and required nine
stitches. Greenwood attempted to make a complaint, but was told by an
officer "it was no use to make a complaint against him [Beecher] as he
'stood too high in Masonry for any one to move him from his position.'"
The case was later resolved with no charges being brought against Beecher.
Clarence Yale Beecher [1st] was the son of Benjamin Beecher and
Huldah Foster Yale of New Haven, CT. The Beecher family goes back to
the earliest years of New England colonization. Harriet Beecher Stowe
descends from this family line.
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