Ursula Smith Beach (1900-19?)

Biography

Beach was born, lived, and died in Clarksville, Tennessee, where she served as City Historian as well as County Historian for Montgomery County Tennessee. The daughter of millworkers--her father worked for the mill owned by his father and run by her uncle--she received a solid education for a woman of her time and eventually received her masters degree from Austin Peay State University (Beiswenger). Her writing is distinguished by her love of history, and "invoke[s] a style that keeps the reader entwined in r Census of Montgomery County, Tennessee (with Ann Evans Alley, 1971)

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• A Commemorative History of First Christian Church, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1842- 1972. (1972)
• The First Fifty Years of Austin Peavy State University (with Charles M. Walters, 1977)
• History and Literature of Montgomery County, Tennessee (1979)
• Phila Hach's United Nations Cookbook: Recipes Collected from UN Ambassadors After Their Visit to Tennessee, 1976 (with Phila Rawlings Hach, 1981)
• Rebecca Sevier, Child of the Frontier (1984)
• Montgomery County (with Robert B. Jones, 1988)
• Nineteenth Century Heritage, Clarksville, Tenn. (with Elanor S. Williams, 1989)
• Homes and Happenings (with Elanor S. Williams, 1990)

Sources and Links

• Beiswenger, Eleanor H. " What Did She Learn and How Did She Learn It: Formative Early Twentieth Century Educational Influences on Ursula Smith Beach of Clarksville, Tennessee"
• Manners, Oscar A. " Ursula Smith Beach"

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