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THE WESTERN ARGUS. 73 months, thence returned to Beaver county in 1871, and became connected in a business capacity with the Beaver "Argus." He became manager of the business affairs of the "Argus and Radical" until he purchased an interest. Curtis & Keed began the publication of the "Daily Argus" in May 1883, the second daily in the county, which veas continued for thirteen years. September 1, 1885, Mr. Eeed sold his interest in the paper to W. F. Bliss and brother Howard Bliss, and purchased a half in- terest in the "Clarion (Pa.) Democrat," the management of which he assimied, and remained in the paper until April 1, 1901, when he disposed of his interest to his partner, and immediately thereafter engaged in the wholesale and retail hardware and manufacturing busi- ness in Franklin, Pa. The Bliss brothers were born in South Beaver town- ship, the sons of Dr. Zadok and Rebecca McMillen Bliss. The father was a practicing physician in that township, and died there in 18Y5, while the mother is yet living at Beaver, in the ninetieth year of her age, and residing with her are her two daughters, the Misses Sue and Rebecca Bliss. Both Dr. and Mrs. Bliss were natives of South Beaver township, where their children were bom. W. F. Bliss was a teacher by profession, and upon retiring from the "Argus," he resumed his profession, which he had laid down to take up newspaper work. He was for some time principal of the Beaver public schools and a teacher in the high school. For two terms princi- pal of the Rochester schools, and was the organizer and first principal of its high school. From Rochester he went to California, where he has been engaged in edu- cational work since 1894, and since 1901 has been Pro- fessor of History in the State Normal School at San Diego. He is one of the staff contributors to the "California School Journal," and has prepared and pub-