Samuel E. Beach, succumbs at 90 in Pontiac home. He was a carriage maker in the early days, later a prominent banker. Samuel Elmore Beach, 90, former Pontiac banker and carriage maker, died Thursday evening at his home, 337 North Saginaw street. Born in Manitowoc, Wisc. Oct 9, 1858, he as the son of Col. Elmore and Sophronia Thompson Beach. Mr. Beach's parents both came of Oakland COunty Pioneer stock, their families having moved to Michigan from Upper New York state in the 1820 and 30s to take up new land in the county. Mr. Beach received his education in the public schools of Pontiac and later entered the First Commercial Bank, where he became assistant cashier. In 1893 with Edward M. Murphy, Mr. Beach organized the Pontiac Buggy Company, which was one of the city's principal manufacturing plants throughout the era, wen Pontiac was a center of the carriage industry. In 1904, with L. L. Dunlap, and J. S. Stockwell, he formed the Dunlap Vehicle Company. When the carriage business began to decline with the rise of the automobile, Mr. Beach liquidated the Pontiac Buggy company in 1911, The Beach & Cloonan drug store as established in 1913, but a few years later he retired from this business to give more of his time to the banking interest. He had been a director of the Pontiac Savings Bank for some time and was made president of the board in 1912. He served in that capacity until this and the First Commercial bank was merged in 1921, Mr. Beach also served on the board of education from 1910 to 1918. In 1922 he organized and became president of the Peoples State Bank of Pontiac. He retired in the late twenties. Mr. Beach married Julia Taft, daughter of Judge and Mrs. Levi B. Taft, on Jun 10, 1885. The Beaches have resided at the present address for the past 50 years. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Surviving, besides his widow, are a daughter, MArgaret, of Flint, and a son, Stewart T. Beach, of New York city.