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 THE WESTERN ARGUS. ill feeling, and the inevitable result followed, in the in- terest of political peace, in the consolidation of the two papers. Matthew Stanley Quay was born at Dillsburg, York county, Pa., Sept. 30, 1833, the son of Eev. AnderSon Beaton Quay, a prominent Presbyterian clergyman, the latter a son of Joseph Quay and Ascenath Anderson, who lived in the northern part of Chester county; the latter's father, Patrick Anderson, was a captain in the French and Indian War, and, on the breaking out of the Revo- lution was, along with Anthony Wayne, a member of the Chester county committee. He went into the service in 1776 as Captain of the first company in the Pennsyl- vania Musketry Battalion, and after the battle of Long Island, he commanded the battalion. In 1778 and 1779 he sat in the Pennsylvania Assembly, and his son, Isaac Anderson, represented that district in Congress from 1803 to 1807. Senator Quay's great-grandmother, Ann Beaton, was the daughter of Daniel Beaton, and the sister of Colonel John Beaton; who, during the Revo- lution, was most active in military affairs in Chester county. Matthew S. Quay graduated from Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1850, studied law with Penny & Ster- rett, ia Pittsburg, and was admitted to the bar of Beaver coimty in 1854. The following year he was appointed Prothonotary of the coimty, and was elected in 1856, and again in 1859. In 1861 he resigned his office to accept a lieutenancy in the Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves, and was subsequently made Assistant Commissary-General of the State, and with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Afterward he was appointed private secretary to Gov. Andrew G. Curtin, and, in August, 1862, was commis- sioned Colonel of the 134th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was mustered out, owing to ill health, December 7, 1862, but participated in the assault on