70 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. cliosen as the representative of the State, to carry the electoral count to the National Capital. In 1869 he was elected to the State Senate, and was President of that body in 1872. In 1876 was appointed Collector of the Port of Pittsburg, which he held four years. Soon after his retirement from the office was appointed United States Marshal for the western district of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the State Senate in Allegheny, Pa., in 1886, serving one term. Mr. Eutan was united in marriage with Cora, daughter of Rev. William Cox, D. D., a promment member of the Pittsburg Conference M. E. Church, and died in Allegheny, Pa., June 18, 1892, and was buried at Beaver. Joseph L. Anderson was bom in Beaver and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Eakin) Anderson, farmers, of Scotch-Irish origin; attended the common schools and the Beaver Academy; entered the office of the "Argus" as apprentice and learned the trade, where he remained until he became a partner, and subsequently was foreman of the "Radical;" was transcribing clerk in the Senate of the State in 1867 ; and after leaving the "Radical" • was foreman of the "Chronicle-Telegraph." He was married in 1861 to Margaret Hall of Beaver county, and had three children, James Paul, Stanley, and Mary Olive. Argus and Radical. The journalistic contest between the two rival papers, the "Argus" and the "Radical," was continued from November 1868, to September 17, 1873, when the two papers were consolidated, taking the name of "Argus and Radical," published by the Beaver Printing Company,
