Beer family

Thomas Beer was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on November 22, 1889. He graduated from Yale in 1911 and attended Columbia University Law School. He wrote several novels, short stories, and articles. Beer died in New York City in April 18, 1940.

William Collins Beer was born in Bucyrus, Ohio, 23 January 1863, the son of Thomas and Tabitha Mary (Dinsmore) Beer. He was educated in local schools before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1880. Resigning from the Academy in 1882, he traveled West to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he found employment in the Officer and Pusey Bank. On his own time, he studied law with his uncle, Judge Thomas Reed. In 1885, he accepted a position as teller in the Omaha National Bank, where he remained until 1889.

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