Charles Cotesworth Beaman

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Biography

Charles Cotesworth Beaman was born in Houlton, Maine on May 7, 1840.[3]

He graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School.[4] He began practicing law in New York City in 1867.[3]

Beaman was also a vice president of the University Club of New York from 1890 to 1899 and a president from 1899 to 1900.[5]

He died at his home in New York on December 15, 1900.[6]

References

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  1. "Charles Cotesworth Beaman". Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005.
  2. Hackett, Frank Warren. Reminiscences of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration 1872, The Alabama Claims. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. 84–85.
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