The Apollo Sentinel, Apollo, PA -- Apollo, PA, Friday, October 31, 1930 - Well Known Steel Man Dies Suddenly -- Addison H. Beale Dies Suddenly at Home of Son in Chicago; Was Well Known Here -- Addison H. Beale, of Pittsburgh, President of the A. M. Byers Steel Company, and well known to the people of this vicinity, died suddenly in Chicago Tuesday, October 28, 1930 at 1:30 P.M. He became ill while in the office of H. A. Brassert and company, Engineers for his firm, and was taken to the home of his son, Warren Beale, where he died a short time later. Mr. Beale had been a prominent figure in the steel trade. He was president of the A. M. Byers Company for five years, and previously had been associated with the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, Eastern Steel Company, Lebanon Iron Company and the Steel and Tube Company of America. At the time of his death he was also president of the Pennsylvania Industries Company, and was on the Boards of Directors of the Pittsburgh United Corporation and the Sharon Steel Hoop Company. He was a member of the Duquesne Club, Oakmont Country Club and the Pittsburgh Field Club. He is survived by his widow, his two sons, Warren and Joseph Beale, and one daughter, Mrs. John D. Shaner. Mr. Beale was born in Leechburg, the son of the late Major Joseph Beale. His father was a coal operator and sheet iron man, and was a member of Congress for one term. "Bert" as Mr. Beale was known to his friends, began his career in Apollo under George G. McMurtry, then head of the Apollo Iron and Steel Company. When Vandergrift was started, Mr. Beale became district manager of the Vandergrift Plant and held that position for ten or twelve years. For a while he was in Pottsvulle, where he was in charge of a works owned principally by Harry Payne Whitney, noted sportsman who died recently. Mr. Beale's rise to eminence in the iron and steel industry was swift. Leaving Pottsvulle, he became president of the Steel and Tube Company of America, with headquarters in Chicago. Later he went to Pittsburgh as president of the A. M. Byers company, which recently opened a new plant at Ambridge, where a new process of puddling iron was put in operation. His wife is the former Effie Jack, of Apollo, daughter of the late Daniel Jack, and a sister of Howard Jack of this place. Funeral services will be held at his residence, 4947 Wallingford street this Friday, afternoon at 1 o'clock. Interment private.