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 88 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. every march, skirmish and battle it was engaged in, until taken down with pneumonia in Kentucky in May 1863, being discharged at Camp Denison, 0., two months later. At the battle of South Mountain where the color bearer was shot, he took the regimental colors, carrying them during the remainder of his service. After leaving the army he took turns at railroading mitil the winter of 1865-6 when he was appointed special agent of the Post- office Department, doing some lively work in the South. Mr. Burton has had a more varied experience in news- paper work, than any writer ever in Beaver county, and we give it in full, though necessarily brief. The frequent changes he made, were caused by ill health usually, as he was in bad condition most of his life after leaving the army. On his return from the South he wrote his first correspondence to the "New Castle (Pa.) Gazette," and resigned his postoffice position to go on the stafE of the "Constitutional Union" of Washington. In the summer of 1866 he began his experience as an editor and pub- lisher, he and W. S. Black purchasing the "New Castle Gazette." Mr. Burton withdrew in November 1867, and started the "Champion" December 5th, which lived a year, when he sold the material to J. H. Odell in part payment for the Beaver "Local," which he sold in the fall of 1869 to W. H. Schwartz. While in Beaver the first child was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Burton, at the home of her parents in Moravia. He must have been bom to the profession, for before he was 25 years old he was managing editor of the "Brooklyn Eagle" and at 31 — ^be- came managing editor of the "New York World," which position he now holds. Mr. Burton next went to Pitts- burg as city editor and business manager of the "Daily Republic," in a few months resigned to go with the "Re- publican," later merged into the "Inter Ocean," of Chicago. The next summer he went to Nebraska and took up a