The following article was found in the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, 3 Mar 1897, Page 7. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of this article, please send me your mailing address. "David Thomas, who was on Monday elected Plymouth's civil engineer, is a graduate of Stevenson's International Correspondence School. He recently passed a successful examination in geometry, trigonometry, railroad surveying, drawing, land surveying and mapping. He has been a resident of Plymouth for several years and secured his first diploma from the Lloyd Mining School at Merthyr Tydvil, Wales. He is a son of David Thomas of the Rhos Farm, Gellygaer, Wales, who is superintendent of the Gelfach collieries, Rhymney Valley. He is one of the most popular young men in Plymouth. His brother, Thomas P. Thomas, is a teller in the First National Bank of Meridian, Texas." Nancy Cook Pasadena, MD, USA