Brewster Yale Beach | Psychotherapist, 83
The Rev. Brewster Yale Beach, 83, who presented proof that the Associated Press originated two years earlier than the date previously accepted by historians and the news cooperative itself, died Tuesday in Staatsburg, in Upstate New York.
The Rev. Brewster Yale Beach, 83, who presented proof that the Associated Press originated two years earlier than the date previously accepted by historians and the news cooperative itself, died Tuesday in Staatsburg, in Upstate New York.
Mr. Beach was an Episcopal priest and renowned psychotherapist who traced his ancestry to the founder of the Associated Press.
Mr. Beach's great-great-grandfather, Moses Yale Beach, was the second owner-publisher of the New York Sun, whose innovative idea for an alliance of newspapers sharing Mexican War dispatches in 1846 led to the creation of the Associated Press.
In 2005, Mr. Beach presented the AP, the world's largest news organization, with family papers detailing his ancestor's role in that history. They showed that the news agency was founded two years prior to 1848, the year the Associated Press had long cited as its birth date. - AP