Ralph Earle Beers is one of the enterprising young merchants of New Haven county, conducting a store in North Branford, where he was born on the 6th of October, 1891, a son of  Ralph Beers, who was his predecessor in the business in which he is now engaged. After acquiring his early education in the schools of North Branford and pursuing a course in the Branford high school he entered his father’s store and under his father’s direction received his business training, acquiring experience that has been of great value to him since he took over the business in the fall of 1910, when his father retired. He has since conducted the store and made of it a growing and profitable commercial enterprise. He put new life into the old establishment, applying modern methods, and his progressive spirit is manifest in the results that have been attained. He now has a liberal and growing patronage and he carries a large and carefully selected line of goods, always closely studying the public needs and demands.

  One the 24th of July, 1910, in North Branford, Mr. Beers was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Judson, a native of North Woodbridge, Connecticut, and a daughter of Charles and Marie (Staude) Judson. Her father was engaged in the meat business as a member of the firm of Judson & Judson of New Haven for a number of years but is now a farmer of Foxon. The mother has passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Beers has been born one child, Ralph Judson, whose birth occurred in North Branford, May 25, 1911.

  In his political views Mr. Beers is a republican, having supported the party since reaching adult age, and he belongs to Totoket Grange. He is yet a young man who has not reached the zenith of his powers and the future holds out to him alluring promises, for he has the determination, the energy and ability which feature largely in success.