64 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. dence that the interests peculiar to our native place will be neither overlooked nor forgotten. For this purpose constant attention vrill be paid to everything calculated to advance the local interests, and develop the resources of Beaver county." The publishers were T. C. Nicholson & Co. In an editorial in the paper September lY, 1862, the following appeared: "The editor of this paper, T. C. Nicholson, enlisted in Capt. Darragh's company of three years' men and is now with his regiment. The acting editors, Rutan and Anderson, both volunteered under the late call of the Governor, and left for Harrisburg on Monday. We are therefore left without sufficient force to carry on the paper properly. We hope our readers wUl bear with us for a short time, until they return. We will try and do the best we can under the circimistances — Angels could do no more. The country seems to require all our able bodied men, and the next call may leave the 'Argus' without even the 'devil.' " The emergency men imder Capt. Rutan, under the Governor's call to defend Pennsylvania, returned home the latter part of September. February 11, 1863, De Lorma Imbrie assumed control of the "Argus" as editor and proprietor. In his saluta- tory he annoimced : "The 'Argus' will, as it has hereto- fore done, sustain to the utmost of its power, the prin- ciples laid dovm by the f oiuiders of our government ; and so long as our present Chief Magistrate shall be faithful to those principles, we shall continue to give him our unqualified support." De Lorma Imbrie was born in Big Beaver township March 4, 1824; was educated in the country schools and Darlington Academy; taught school in Darlington, Brighton and Wilmington; was married at the latter place to Miss Margaret Carman October 27, 1851. He then took up his residence in Beaver where he studied
