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 98 HISTORY OP BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. Hon.. William B. Dunlap was born at Darlington, Pa., son of Samuel E. and Nancy Hemphill Dunlap, the former a grandson of Walter Clarke, a member of the First Constitutional Convention of Peimsylvania in 1776. His mother was the daughter of Judge Joseph Hemphill, one of the three commissioners named in the Act of Assembly for the erection of Beaver county. Mr. Dunlap was educated in the common schools and the Darlington and Beaver academies and Jefferson College. He in- tended to study law, but on account of ill health was forced to abandon it. Later he was principal for two years of the Scott Street public schools of Covington, Ky. His health still remaining poor, he entered upon work on the river, and was for a number of years engaged in the transportation business on the rivers. In 1890, with two Republican candidates in the field for State Senate, he was elected as a Democrat to that office in this district. Soon after the expiration of his term, he be- came connected with the "Star." In April 1896, the office was removed from the Ken- nedy building on Turnpike street into the Buchanan building Third street, and new material and press added. The plant was burned the morning of March 25, 1897, between the Ijours of 5 and 6 o'clock, when the entire out- fit was totally destroyed. The "Beaver Valley News" of New Brighton, telephoned at once to the editor, offering the help of its office, and the same day an issue was published, and was printed from the "News" office for a few days, when new type, etc., was purchased and set up in an old frame building in liie rear of the "Argus and Radical" office, where the type was set, and the paper printed in the press room of the "Argus and Radical." In July 1898, a new building was erected for the "Star" immediately in rear of the new Buchanan block, and a complete new outfit installed. The editorial and business office was established in the Buchanan building.