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 THE WESTERN STAR. 97 later, when the "Mansfield Daily Herald" was started, he became a member of its local staff. In the fall of 1885 he was offered a position as local editor of the "Beaver Falls Tribune" which he accepted and held until 1888 when he went on the staff of the "News -Democrat" at Canton, O. He here remained imtil the fall of 1891 when he returned to Beaver county and assisted in launching the "Daily Star." In December 1894, he went to Pittsburg where he became connected with the "Pitts- burg Post," taking charge of the industrial route. With the exception of about six months, when he was on the "Pittsburg Times," he conducted the industrial column of the "Post" for seven years. He then became con- nected with the "Pittsburg Dispatch," where he is now doing general assignment work. In January 1894 the plant was sold to a stock company, with Mr. Porter as managing editor. In February 1895, the "Star Publishing Company" was chartered, and a board of directors was elected, with John Conway, a banker of Rochester, as president, William B. Dunlap editor and manager, and W. H. Porter solicitor and collector. John Conway was bom in this county March 2Y, 1830, the son of Michael and Mary O'Brien Conway, who came from Ireland in 1825, and settled in Economy township. He was educated in the public schools and a college at Vincennes, Ind. He followed steamboating for a while, then embarked in the dry goods business at New Castle, Pa., lat«r in the same business in Eochester imtil 1871, when the bank of which he was president was started. In 1857 he married Thalia, daughter of Philip Bentel, to whom two children were bom, Lilian wife of N. F. Hurst Eochester, and Charles B. Conway. Mr. Conway has been one of the most prominent business men in the county.