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 168 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. W. Va., and a man of rare good qualities and ability; Elmer King, George E. Evans, Theo. C. Deitriek re- porter, Charles Binzley wholesale grocer, Joseph Bliss reporter New Brighton, Lester McClain printer, Charles McKnight printer, W. B. Ramsey reporter, Frank Evans deceased, Charles Evans printer, Fred Shook Linotype operator, Robert Beacom druggist Allegheny, Pa., Lawrence Degraw, Harry E. Disbrow, Joseph Maroney now in a job office in Pittsburg, Elmer Rosenbauer, Gus Wells and Ralph Correll. Among the writers on the paper, have been a number of able men and bright wits. In the early life of the paper, Hon. John Allison Register of the Treasury under President Grant, contributed a number of financial articles from Washington, and some editorials along the same line, which were read with interest, and were of a high order of ability. Prof. A. R. Whitehill of Beaver Falls, now a professor in the University of West Virginia, wrote a series of articles descriptive of a trip to Europe. Other men prominent in local affairs were frequent contributors. John M. Critchlow, son of the Major, now a prominent minister in the Free Methodist Church, was with the paper for some months as gatherer of news and col- lector, and assisted in the office. O. H. Mathews of Beaver Falls, who came on the paper as reporter and printer, was the first reporter on the paper. He wrote Beaver Falls locals in the morning and set them in type during the day. He was bom December 2, 1842, near Harmony, Butler couiity. Pa., of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He attended the public schools until he was 14 years old, when he went on. the "Butler American" to learn the trade of printing, where he re- mained imtil the outbreak of the Civil War, when he en- listed in Col. Rowley's 13th Pennsylvania Volunteers, was mustered in April 25, 1861, served until August 6,