Chandler Beach

Chandler Belden Beach (1839–1928) was an American entrepreneur and encyclopedist. A captain in the American Civil War, he became a sales agent in Chicago for the Encyclopædia Britannica. Realizing there was a market demand for a more compact, less-detailed encyclopedia, he founded the publishing company C. B. Beach & Company, and published numerous reference works, including multiple editions of the "Youth's Cyclopedia".

Upon his retirement he sold the company to his associate, Frank Compton, who later renamed it F. E. Compton & Co.. Compton produced Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia in 1922, which later became the well-known and highly regarded Compton's Encyclopedia, initially purchased by Encyclopædia Britannica in 1961 and today known as Compton's by Britannica.

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