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 100 HISTORY OP BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. Ledger" and "Evening Bulletin," and the Beaver and New Brighton representative of all the Pittsburg papers and news gathering agencies. One of the best known reporters in the county, James Ellis McOlure, Beaver EaUs representative of the "Star,"' is given a place here because of his long connection with the paper though he began newspaper work in Beaver Falls. He was bom in Pittsburg July 1, 1844, is a graduate of Duff's College, and during the Civil War served in the 15th Kegiment State Militia, Knap's Inde- pendent Battery of Light Artillery, and in the First Battalion of Pennsylvania Light Artillery. At the ex- piration of his term of service he entered the auditing department of the Union Kailroad & Transportation Co. at Pittsburg, leaving there after six years' service to engage with his brother-in-law, Samuel F. Burd, in the banking business at Mercer, as Burd & McClure. They were successful until the panic of 1873, and Mr. Burd having died in the meantime, he helped organize and opened the books of the Farmers & Mechanic's National Bank of Mercer, where he remained two years as Assistant Cashier, having woimd up the affairs of Burd & McClure during that time. He resigned and went to Evansburg, Pa., to keep books for a wholesale hardware and Oil Supply Co., which failed, and then he went to Chicago and followed his calling for about a year, and then returned east. He first began newspaper work in the office of the "Beaver Falls Tribune" in 1881, where he was bookkeeper, and began to write local news. He remained there about two years and helped start the "Daily Tribime," being its first reporter. In the fall of 1884 he accepted the position of Beaver Falls reporter on the daily edition of the "Beaver Valley News," where he remained four years, resigning to engage with John W. Carson in 1888, in the publication of the daily "Journal" Beaver Falls, where he remained until it was