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 THE WESTERN STAR. soldier's claim to government land near Grand Island. Eetuming in 1875, he bought the "New Era" of New Castle, changing the name to the "Paragraph," which he sold to Geo. W. Penn and E. E. Stone ; later he was cily editor of the "New Castle Courant," from which he re- signed to start the "National Greenback," and later started the "National Greenback" at Erie. In 1877 he was city editor- of the "Guardian" New Castle, and was next invited to become the city editor and advertising manager of the "Beaver Valley News," and later became city editor and business manager of the "Indianapolis Sun;" after which he accepted a position on the Youngstown "Daily and Weekly News;" after 18 months he started the first Sunday paper between Pitts- burg and Cleveland, the "Youngstown Sunday Morn- ing," which came out in April 1882. He sold it to H. L. Preston, and the next winter was city editor of the "Youngstown Vindicator," which he resigned to start the "Youngstown Saturday Night," and this he sold in 1886 and later purchased an Interest in "Brick Pomeroy's Democrat," of New York City, from which he withdrew in 1887, and returned to Youngstown, O., where he accepted a position on the daily paper published by the "Saturday Night" plant; he took charge of the "South- West," a trade paper in Cincinnati, in 1888, and made a great success of it. During the next four years he spent fully half his time in hospitals, but in 1896, though broken in health, he again entered newspaper work and started the "Buckeye Record" in Youngstown, 0., which he conducted until after the election, and then retired from newspaper and all other work, making his home at Youngstown. In April 1904,. Governor Herrick honored him with the appointment of a member of the Ohio Penitfentiary Board of Managers for five years, which requires but three days each month at the capital.