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 150 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. his death January 8, 1871. The "Herald" put on a new dress January 19, 1870, and the name was changed to the "Beaver Valley Herald." Dr. Wilson sold his interest in the paper to Major J. B. Hays of Meadville, Pa., November 1870, and afterward moved to Philadelphia, Pa., where he was engaged in practicing medicine until his death. W. E. Burton, brother of Thomp. Burton, was a compositor on the paper. While here he married Miss Lida Oldham, one of the public school teachers, and he was in later years publisher and manager of the mechanical department of "Brick Pomeroy's Democrat" of New York City, in which Thomp. Burton was a partner for a while. J. F. McCaughtry was an apprentice and worked on job work. He was born September 1857, and at the age of 13, entered the office of the "Beaver Local" as an apprentice, where he remained one year and was then employed by McKee & Wilson of the "Herald," staying there a short time and then accepted a position in the "Courier" office at Youngstown, O. He worked there for a year and returned to New Brighton and was in the office of the "Beaver County Press," Major J. B. Hays proprietor. His next move was again to Youngs- town, where he had charge of the job department of the "Tribune," and later took charge of the job department of the "Vindicator" that place, under the management of N. L. Brown, now of the New York "News," where he remained tmtil 1887. He then accepted a position as traveling salesman for the Cleveland Paper Co., and was in their employ for about five years, when he associated himself with twelve large paper mills as their general representative, and sold all kinds of paper for these mills to Jime 28, 1897, when he was made division manager of the Pittsburg division, for the International