THE WESTERN ARGUS. law and was admitted to the bar November 25, 1853. He was a conspicuous figure in politics; was a member of the Legislature 1856-57-58, and of the Senate in 1859. During the last seven years of his life, he was employed in the Auditor General's office at Harrisburg, where he died November 6, 1888. He had five children : Carman ; Nannie B., wife of Eev, W. S. McClure; Mary E., wife of W. H. S. Thomson, Esq., a prominent attorney of Beaver, now of Pittsburg; Lilian Era, and Edith. In the issue of August 31, 1864, Mr. Imbrie said : "We are compelled to issue a half sheet this week. John Tallon one of our hands, volimteered last week, and we are left without sufficient force to issue a full sheet." November 2, 1864, Mr. Imbrie annoimced his retire- ment from the "Argus," and the next issue November 9, D. W. Scott Jr., took charge of the business and edi- torial management of the paper. Mr. Scott had been a student at Beaver Academy and subsequently of Jeffer- son College, in which he was graduated, and intended to enter the ministry, biit on account of ill health ceased his theological studies and entered upon the Work of editing the paper. At the close of the year he sold his interests in the paper, and died of consumption April 6, 1865, in Hopewell township. January 4, 1865, M. S. Quay and J. S. Kutan bought the paper, assumed the management, and conducted it together mitil October 18, 1865, when Mr. Rutan an- nounced that he had purchased Mr. Quay's interest, and would thereafter conduct it as sole editor and proprietor. This continued until November 22, 1865, when J. S. Eutan & Co. were given as editors and proprietors, J. L. Anderson being the other member of the company. This continued until July 11, 1866, when Jacob Weyand pur- chased the outfit, and took charge of it as editor and proprietor, without any editorial flourish, but with a mere mention of the fact.
