Charles Cotesworth Beaman '61 died Saturday night of heart disease afeer an illness of three days. He was Overseer of the College from 1887 to 1893, and was the reelected for a second term. From 1883 to 1885 he was president of the Harvard Club of New York.

He was born at Houlton, Maine, on May 7, 1840, and was a son of the Rev. C. C. Beaman. He graduated from Harvard in 1861, and after three years of teaching, he spent two years in the Law School, and received his degree of A. M. He was then private secretary to Charles Summer '30 until he began practicing law in New York in 1868. Later he became junior partner of the law firm of Evarts, Choate & Beaman. In 1871 he published a book "The National and Private Alabama Claims and Their Final and Amicable Settlement," the material of which he gathered from Charles Sumner. President Grant the following year appointed him solicitor for the United States before the Geneva Arbitration Tribunal. Last April, Governor Roosevelt appointed him a member of the Greater New York Charter Revision Committee.

His services to Harvard since graduation have been great not only from his great loyalty to the College but also from his legal and executive ability.