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Chandler Belden Beach (1839–1928) was an American entrepreneur and encyclopedist. He founded the publishing company ''C. B. Beach & Company'', later renamed ''F. E. Compton & Co.'' after his associate Frank Compton took it over, Beach also served as a captain in the American Civil War. As a sales agent in Chicago for the ''Encyclopædia Britannica,'' he soon realized there was a market demand for a more light-weight encyclopedia. ==Works== Beach was the editor and publisher of ''Youth's Cyclopedia'' (2 volumes, 1892) and the ''Student's Cyclopaedia'' (2 volumes, 1893), which turned into ''The Student's Reference Work'' (1901). ''The New Student's Reference Work'' was published by ''C. B. Beach & Company'' (1909,1911,1912), then by ''F. E. Compton & Co.'' from 1912.
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