Chester Roswell Beecroft
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Jun 1883 - NY
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Death: 7 Jan 1959
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Events
• Census, Federal, 1900 in Pelham Manor, Westchester Co, NY
Beecroft, John R, head, born May 1849, 51, married 29 years, born in England, both parents born in England, immigrated in 1869, occupation publisher;• Event, Nevada State Journal, 29 May 1910 in Reno, , NV
Elizabeth, wife, born June 1850, 50, born Penns, both parents born Penns;
F J, son, born Dec 1873, 27, born Illinois, occupation Lawyer;
Edgar C, son, born Feby 1875, 25, born Illinois, occupation Lawyer;
Albert A, son, born Oct 1877, 23, born Illinois, occupation Promoter;
Roswell C, son, born Jun 1880, 19, born New York, occupation Student;
Mary C, dau, born June 1883, 17, born New York.
Ross, Annie M, servant, born May 1877, 23, born Virginia;
German, Stephen, servant, born June 1873 27, born S. Carolina.
Intend to Search for Records of Cook• Event, The Washington Post, 20 Jan 1911
New York, May 28, - Chester Beecroft of Pelham Harbor, N.Y., announced today he will sail for Etah June 15th with the Bernier expedition to the Artic in the hope of finding the records Dr. Cook says he left in the north. It is said that he was supplied with funds by Dr. and Mrs. Cook. It was through Beecroft's efforts that the Eskimo boy, Mene, sole survivor of the Peary expedition of 1898, was sent back north.
A Boy without a Country.• Travel, from Christiania on the Oscar II, 26 Aug 1917 in New York, NY
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Word has come at length from Meno Wallace, the Eskimo boy who, as an infant, was brought here by Capt. Peary fourteen years ago, and who was taken back in July, 1909. He writes to his great friend, Mr. R. Chester Beecroft, of 1402 Broadway, New York, that he is unfit to live in either America or the far North, and that there is no fit place for him on earth any more. The boy, with his father, who was chief of the tribe, and two others, were brought to this country and used for scientific experiments by the American Museum of Natural History. All the others died here. In America the boy attended the public schools and Manhattan College, with fairly good credit to himself. But he wanted to go back to the land of his fathers, went back, and now finds he is unfit to live either there or here.
Given Name:• Travel, from Southhampton on board the Mauretania, 31 Mar 1919 in New York City, NYRoswell
Surname:Beecroft
Last Place of Residence:New York, NY
Date of Arrival:26 Aug 1917
Age at Arrival:33y
Ethnicity:USA
Port of Departure:Christiania
Port of Arrival:New York
Gender:Male
Marital Status:M
US Citizen:
Ship of Travel:Oscar II
Chester Beecroft, age 35 years, 8 months, L56471, address Pelham Manor, NY• Travel, from Southhamption on board the Olympio, 15 Dec 1920 in New York City, NY
Chester Beecroft, age 36, born 25th Jun 1883, New York, NY, 177982 Pelham, 501, 5th Avenue, N.Y.• Event, Rat Island, bef 1931 in East Bronx, , NY
New York City: Vol 1• Obituary, The New York Times, 8 Jan 1959
page 551
19. Rat Island, about a half mile east of City Island, two acres of bare rock, served as a resting place for escaping convicts from near-by Hart's Island and was the site of the Pelham pesthouse during the yellow fever scares. The island is divided at one end by a natural declivity known as "Devil's Path." For a tiem Rat Island was the home of a group of writers and artists. One of these was Chester Beecroft, film producer and war correspondent. In 1931 the Mount Vernon Club leased the island and now rents it to vacationists.
Chester Beecroft
Chester Beecroft of Westport, Conn., a quartermaster on round-the-world cruise ships of the American President Lines, yesterday at the United...
Parents
Father: John Robert Beecroft
Mother: Elizabeth Corbett
Spouses and Children
1. *Eleanor
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of Westport, Conn.