William S. Beasley was a third-year trade class student at North Carolina A & T in 1917-1918. School bulletins list his home residence as Baltimore, Maryland in 1916-1917, as Warwick, Virginia in 1917-1918, and as Warwick, North Carolina in 1920-1921. Following a gap, he returned to A & T as a fourth-year trade class student in 1920-1921.