New York Times, 21 Dec. 1932, read, "Bernhard Beinecke, retired hotel operator, banker and meat packer, who was chairman of the Hotel Plaza, died yesterday in his eighty-seventh year in his apartment in that hotel after an illness of several weeks. He leaves his wife, the former Johanna Weigle, with whom he celebrated their gold wedding seven years ago; four sons, Edwin J., president of the Sperry & Hutchinson Company; Frederick W., Walter of this city, and Bernhard Jr. of Monrovia, Cal., and two daughters, Mrs. Edwin A. Strong of this city and Mrs. Fritz Weickert of Leipzig, Germany. Mr. Beinecke was born in 1846 in Germany and came to New York in 1865. Shortly afterward he formed the firm of Beinecke & Co., which soon became one of the largest wholesale meat concerns in this city. On the merger of this company with the Eastman Company, Ltd., in 1890, he assumed the presidency of the latter company, which for many years maintained at Fifty-ninth Street and the Hudson River the largest stockyards in New York. One of the founders and original directors of the old Plaza Bank, Mr. Beinecke was also one of the early directors of the Germania Bank, afterward changed to the Commonwealth Bank, of which he became president, and finally chairman of its board of directors, until its merger with the Manufacturers Trust Company. He was one of the pioneers in the modern phase of the hotel business, organizing one of the first chains of hotels in this country. With his associates he formed the Hammond Hotel Company, which operated the old Plaza and Murray Hill Hotels in New York, the old Shoreham Hotel in Washington and Hygeia Hotel at Old Point Comfort, Va., and the Essex Hotel in Boston. He subsequently was instrumental in establishing and erecting the Hotel Manhattan and the present Plaza Hotel in New York and the Copley-Plaza Hotel in Boston. He was the president of the companies that built these hotels, until his retirement, remaining as chairman of the board of the Plaza Hotel. The funeral services will be held in the Church of the Divine Paternity, Central Park West and Seventy-sixth Street, at 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon."

Name: Bernard Beinecke
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 20 Dec 1932
Event Place: Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
Address: Hotel Plaza, Fifth Ave at 59th
Residence Place: Hotel Plaza
Gender: Male
Age: 86
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: Importer
Birth Date: 22 Apr 1846
Birthplace: Germany
Burial Date: 22 Dec 1932
Cemetery: Greenwood Cem
Father's Name: Johannn Beinecke
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Name: Christina Knipscher
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Spouse's Name: Johanna E Beinecke