his son and six other men to start a yacht club on his property in Stratford, Connecticut. The Housatonic boat club is the oldest operating Yacht club in Connecticut. The club purchased the land from the Beach estate in 1954. Death Beach died of pneumonia on January 1, 1896, in New York City at the age of 69. He had a son named Frederick Converse Beach, who invented a photolithographic process and ran Scientific American Magazine, and a grandson named Stanley Yale Beach, who worked for Scientific American as well but also became an aviation pioneer, and an early financier of Gustave Whitehead, the contested first maker of a powered controlled flight before the Wright brothers. Both were Yale graduates, having graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School. References External links Alfred Beach's Pneumatic Subway and the beginnings of rapid transit in New York by Joseph Brennan Alfred Ely Beach – Beach's Bizarre Broadway Subway Klaatu's detailed background article, explaining the technical and political details of the project. NEW YORK’S SECRET SUBWAY – American Heritage "Pneumatic Transit" Animation by Abby Digital 1826 births 1896 deaths 19th-century American inventors Beach family Businesspeople from Springfield, Massachusetts American patent attorneys American magazine publishers (people) 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Scientific American people American railroad pioneers 19th-century American journalists American male journalists