Lucius Morris Beebe (1902 - 1966)

Born 9 Dec 1902 in Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Died 4 Feb 1966 at age 63 in Hillsborough, San Mateo, California, United States

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Biography

Lucius Beebe is Notable.

Lucius was an American author, gourmand, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist.

Records

Lucius was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts in 1902 to Junius and Eleanor (Merrick) Beebe.^[1] In 1920, Lucius, his parents, and his siblings Junius and Lucia lived in Boston.^[2]

In 1928, Lucius crossed the border to Canada.^[3] In 1932, he returned to the US on the Monarch of Bermuda, a cruise ship.^[4] A census between these events has not been found yet.

In 1940, Lucius M. Beebe, newspaper reporter, lived at the Hotel Madison in Manhattan, where he had lived since at least 1935.^[5] Between 1940 and 1950, he met Charles Clegg. In 1950, both men boarded the cruise ship Queen Of Bermuda.^[6][7] When the census was enumerated in 1950, Lucius, author, and Charles, photographer and historian, lived together in Virginia City, Nevada.^[8]

Later, they moved to San Mateo County, California, where Lucius passed away in 1966.^[9]

Detailed biography (from Wikipedia)

"He attended both Harvard University and Yale University, where he contributed to the campus newspaper, Harvard Crimson, and the humor magazine, the Yale Record. Beebe was known for his numerous pranks while in school. One of his more outrageous stunts included an attempt at festooning J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair III with toilet paper from a chartered airplane. Beebe earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1926.

During and immediately after obtaining his degree from Harvard, Beebe published several books of poetry, but eventually found his true calling in journalism. He worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, the Boston Telegram, and the Boston Evening Transcript, and was a contributing writer to many magazines such as Gourmet, The New Yorker, Town and Country, Holiday, American Heritage, and Playboy. Beebe re-launched Nevada's first newspaper, the Territorial Enterprise, in 1952.

In addition to his work as a journalist, Beebe wrote over 35 books. These dealt primarily with railroading and café society. Many of his railroad books were written with his longtime companion Charles Clegg. Clegg and Beebe owned two private railcars, the Gold Coast and the Virginia City. The Gold Coast, formerly Georgia Northern / Central of Georgia No. 100, was built in 1905 and is now at the California State Railroad Museum. After Beebe and Clegg purchased the Virginia City they had it refurbished and redecorated by famed Hollywood set designer Robert T. Hanley in a style known as Venetian Renaissance Baroque. The Virginia City was restored to operate as an excursion car."^[10]

Research Notes

While same-sex marriage was not legal during their lifetimes, the marriage field on both profiles is being used to represent their longterm relationship, which lasted until Lucius' death in 1966.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FXHV-JK9 : 30 November 2022), Beebe, 1902.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF98-M5Q : Fri Dec 08 02:48:03 UTC 2023), Entry for Junias Beebe and Eleanor H Beebe, 1920.
3. ↑ "Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK3B-93P7 : Sun Dec 03 13:29:55 UTC 2023), Entry for Lucius Beebe, 1928.
4. ↑ "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24JF-RCQ : 2 March 2021), Lucius Beebe, 1932; citing Immigration, New York, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3YV-SZH : Tue Nov 28 16:36:08 UTC 2023), Entry for Lucius M Beebe, 1940.
6. ↑ "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24T9-K4P : 2 March 2021), Lucius Beebe, 1950; citing Immigration, New York City, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
7. ↑ "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24T9-KH4 : 2 March 2021), Charles M Clegg, 1950; citing Immigration, New York City, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
8. ↑ "United States 1950 Census", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XFM-3CZM : Wed Oct 04 22:58:38 UTC 2023), Entry for Lucius Beebe and Charles M Clegg, 17 April 1950.
9. ↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP42-X1H : 26 November 2014), Lucius M Beebe, 04 Feb 1966; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
10. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Beebe

See also

• FamilySearch
• Find A Grave: Memorial #6925942
• Lucius Beebe Net Worth – Short bio, age, height, weight.