Amandus W. Beach (1838-1913) was born in Austinburg, Ohio, and died in Orange, California. In 1857 he moved to Weeping Water, Nebraska, and worked as a laborer. During the American Civil War, Beach served for 13 months in Company H of the 2nd Nebraska Cavalry. In 1863, in LeRoy Township, Ohio, he married Aurel P. Beach (b. Paine) and they settled in Weeping Water. After his wife's father's death in 1868 the couple moved back to LeRoy to live with her mother and younger siblings, and Beach worked as a farmer. In 1874 they returned to Weeping Water where he became a store clerk and later a capitalist. In 1910 they retired to Orange to live near family and friends located there, and Beach was the commander of the Gordon Granger Post of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Ana, California. Beach and his wife became interested in Christian Science in the summer of 1886 when they both experienced healings of long-standing invalidism through Christian Science treatment by Jennie B. Fenn, a student of Mary Baker Eddy, an experience he later related in The Christian Science Sentinel. Subsequently they studied Christian Science with Fenn and were listed as practitioners in The Christian Science Journal in 1887 and 1888. They joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 30, 1894. Along with Frederick "Fred" Bellows, with whose family Beach lived when he first moved to Nebraska, Beach and his wife were instrumental in establishing Christian Science in Weeping Water in the 1880s. In 1904 Beach met Septimus J. Hanna while he was traveling through Nebraska. Beach informed Hanna that he was associated in a mining enterprise with Eddy's son, George Washington Glover.

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