Harlan Page Beach

Who was Harlan Page Beach?

Harlan Page Beach was an American missionary, brother of David Nelson Beach. He was born at South Orange, N. J., and graduated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts in 1874, Yale in 1878, and at the Andover Theological Seminary. He was missionary to China from 1883 to 1890 and at the head of the School for Christian Workers in Springfield, Mass. from 1892 to 1895, when he became educational secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. He became professor of the theory and practice of missions at Yale University in 1906. His works include:

The Cross in the Land of the Trident

Knights of the Labarum

Dawn on the Hills of T'ang

Geography and Atlas of Protestant Missions

India and Christian Opportunity

Harlan Beach became an emeritus professor at Yale in 1921. He died in Florida in 1933.