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Florida and engaged in business; L. S. Amberson now in business at Covington, Ky.; Hugh Sutherland job printer, Rochester, Pa.; Harry Patton, Jack Fry, Frank Anderson printers, Beaver; John White for years prominent as a printer, reporter and for some time a partner in the "Beaver Star," now deceased; James L. Dederick printer and pressman; Harry Palmer printer, reporter and manager of advertising, now of California; L. K. Prince and I. N. Jones printers, Youngstown, O.; Fred Shook Linotype operator; Charles Evans, Charles McKnight, Fred McClure and Adam Huth printers ; W. S. Fulkman printer and reporter, now in Columbus, Ohio. To these should be added a number of the Knights of the road, who dropped in for a day or longer, whose names were seldom ever known.

Hugh A. Sutherland was born in Brighton township, Beaver county. Pa., September 24, 1852. In the year 1869 he entered the office of the "Beaver Argus" as an apprentice, under John B. Butler foreman. At the end of his term, he went to Mercer, Pa., where he filled his first position as a journeyman, and from there he went to Pittsburg, thence to Glean, N. Y. From the latter place he went to Meadville and worked on the "Crawford Journal" for one year, and then returned to Beaver county and worked on nearly all the papers. He accepted a position in the "Beaver Valley News" office New Brighton, in 1883, and solicited advertisements in the lower valley towns for the starting of the "Daily News," and reported and worked on the "Daily News" for about one year. In the fall of 1886 he bought the job printing office of M. D. Barnes Rochester, and has conducted it ever since in a successful and satisfactory manner.

The apprentices on the paper were D. F. Daniels ; Ed. Critchlow who engaged in other business ; Joseph Speer later a prominent Presbyterian minister of Wheeling,