122 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. Mackall, and doubtless some others who cannot now be recalled. Of the printers native to the county, who have worked on the paper and are not mentioned in any of the papers, we recall Frank Mills, George Crouch, James Telford, Albert Hartung, Kobert Bruce Jr., WUliam Newlon, Joseph White, Koss Cunningham, Fred C McClure, Mrs. George Early, Ed. Hope. The Life Boat. In 18Y5, Linton S. Amberson started a paper with the above name, in connection with a job printing office. The paper was published in the interest of the Greenback movement, and supported Peter Cooper for President. He sold the paper in 1876 to Holmes & McDonald who continued the publication imder the nam.e of the "New Era" until 1877, when they sold out to persons who moved it to Pittsburg. Mr. Holmes was a Pittsburg man, and Addison McDonald was a son of the late J. V. McDonald, of Bridgewater. Linton S. Amberson, son of the late Dr. T. B. Amber- son of New Castle, Pa., was born in New Castle, Lawrence county, Pa., Jvlj 29, 1846; received his edu- cation in the public and special schools of New Castle; entered the office of the "Coal City Chronicle" New Castle, to learn his trade in the year 1858, that paper being under the management of Sutherland, Spear, Lazier and Vincent. He worked for the firm until the break- ing out of the war, when the members of the firm enlisted, closing the office. He then worked for the other papers of New Castle, the "Journal," "Gazette," and "Courant,"
