Page:History of the newspapers of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.djvu/213

 NEW BRIGHTON PAPERS. 171 1895 and spring of 1896, and then went to work as solicitor for the "Beaver Falls Republican," of which William Kay was editor and Lee McFate manager, where he worked for one week, and then was put on the staff of the paper, where he remained imtil August 1896. On January 15, 1897, he accepted a position on the "Daily News" as Beaver Falls representative, doing the report- ing and soliciting for the paper. He was married to Miss Clara M. Mulholland October 8, 1903. The Rochester reporters were John White, the first on the "Daily News" there, Harry Palmer, Charles R. Frank of Monaca, who died in the work; Charles F. Whisler who died in 1893, then John White and T. C. Deitrick, and they in turn by A. W. Whisler the present representative of the paper in the lower towns. Charles R. Frank was the son of George F. and Rosa Gates Frank, of Monaca, and was bom at Wellsburg, W. Va., January 15, 1863. He was educated in the public schools at Monaca then Phillipsburg, and served an apprenticeship in marble cutting with his uncle E. R. Frank. He then became a reporter on the "Daily Argus," and in 1886 accepted the position of reporter on the "Daily News," which he held until his death, January 16, 1889. After his death he was succeeded for a few months by his widow, and after her by Hervey J. Taylor. Mr. Taylor looked after business interests in the district. He was bom in Beaver, Pa., March 17, 1866, the son of Rev. Dr. W. G. Taylor bom 1820, and Charlotte T. Taylor born 1821. He was educated at Piersol's academy West Btidgewater, Pa., and was a carpenter by occupation. In 1890 while attending school, he re- ported for the "News," but relinquished it to study medicine, taking a course at the Western Pennsylvania Medical College at Pittsburg, but did not graduate, dis- continuing his studies in 1894. He was married to Miss