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BEAVER FALLS PAPERS. 123 covering a number of years, then working on the press through the East and West, as compositor, solicitor and correspondent. About 1871 he was employed on the "McKeesport Times" and helped to put out the first issue, B. B. Courson proprietor; and the late Bartley Campbell, the great playwright, was editor at that time. About 1873 he was employed on the "Conservative" in Beaver, which was published in two rooms in the Old Union Hotel building ; then went on the "Beaver County Press" New Brighton, and later on the "Beaver Valley News." Mr. Amberson is now engaged in the Art busi- ness with his liiree sons, in Covington, Ky. In 1882, the "Beaver Falls Independent" was pub- lished by W. F. Hanrahan and Frank A. Lewis, who were succeeded by W. W. Shields, and soon after the paper was discontinued. The Evening Pen. In April 1883, W. S. Fulkman went to work in the job printing office of Townsend & Co., Beaver Falls, where he remained for two years. While there he induced the firm to commence the publication of a small daily paper, and on the first Monday in June 1883, the first daily paper of Beaver Falls made its appearance, "The Evening Pen." The "Pen" was published from the office of Townsend & Co., but Mr. Fulkman was its originator and had charge of it. During the month of June it appeared every day, and then took a rest until the first of Novem- ber, when it came out again and was published daily until February 18, 1884, at which time it was discontinued. It was supported entirely by advertising, being circulated