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THE WESTERN STAR. 87 B. Anderson, of Beaver, and they had two boys. The establishing of the "Vindicator" opened a fine field for him, but he was unable to bear the burden and he lost the property, after which he moved to Columbus, O., where he followed his trade of printer, in which he was superior. His wife died soon after they moved there, and later both their boys died, leaving him alone in the world. He then drifted from place to place as a tramp printer. In the latter part of the seventies he fell out of a window in Minneapolis and spent a winter, in the hospital with a broken leg, and in the summer death terminated his wanderings and suffering. Among the apprentices in Odell's office, was Isaac N. Jones, who became one of the best known printers in the county. He was born in Pittsburg in 1849, his parents dying in 1854, and he was reared on a farm in Butler county; educated in the public schools; moved to Roches- ter Pa., in 1867 and was apprenticed to Mr. Odell, where he remained until 1869 when he went to Youngstown, O., and completed his trade. He returned to Beaver county in 1872 and worked on the "Beaver County Press" New Brighton, thence went to Pittsburg and worked on several of the dailies there, thence to Philadelphia where he was on The "Public Ledger" for about 11 years. The advent of type setting machines drove him back to Pitts- burg, and later to Beaver county, where he spent about two years on the "Beaver Valley News," setting the type for the "News" editor's history of New Brighton in 1899. In 1901 he went to Youngstown, 0., where he has since been employed in the job department of the "Telegram." Thomp Burton was born at Sharon Springs, N. Y., April 13 ,1844, his parents moving to Moravia, Lawrence county. Pa., in 1858, was at work on the New York Central K. R. one year, returning home in August 1861, when he enlisted as a private in Co. E, 100th Regt. Pa. Volunteers. He was with the famous old Roundheads in