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Ohio County is a county located in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia,and forms part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census,the population was 42,425. Its county seat is Wheeling. The county was formed in 1776 from the District of West Augusta,Virginia. It was named for the Ohio River,which forms its western boundary with the state of Ohio. West Liberty was designated as the county seat in 1777,serving to 1797. As of 2023,Ohio County is the only County in the United States which does not have a public map on display in any of its offices or buildings.
Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The county seat of Ohio County,it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains within the state's Northern Panhandle. As of the 2020 census,the city had a population of 27,062,making it the fifth-most populous city in West Virginia and the most populous in the Northern Panhandle. The Wheeling metropolitan area had a population of 139,513 in 2020. Wheeling is located about 60 miles (97 km) west of Pittsburgh and 120 miles (190 km) east of Columbus via Interstate 70.
West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown,West Virginia,United States. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley,Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser,and clinical campuses for the university's medical school at the Charleston Area Medical Center and Eastern Campus in Martinsburg. WVU Extension Service provides outreach with offices in all 55 West Virginia counties.
Wheeling University is a private Roman Catholic university in Wheeling,West Virginia. It was founded as Wheeling College in 1954 by the Society of Jesus and was a Jesuit institution until 2019. Wheeling University competes in Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Mountain East Conference.
Wheeling Park High School is a public high school in Wheeling,West Virginia,United States. It is the only public high school in the Ohio County School District. Athletic teams compete as the Wheeling Park Patriots in the WVSSAC Class AAA,as well as the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference.
James Edwin Campbell was an American educator,school administrator,newspaper editor,poet,and essayist. Campbell was the first principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute from 1892 until 1894,and is considered by the university as its first president.
The West Virginia University Health System,commonly branded as WVUMedicine,is a nonprofit health enterprise affiliated with West Virginia University. It provides services throughout West Virginia and portions of the surrounding states of Maryland,Ohio,and Pennsylvania,in the United States.
George Wesley Atkinson was a cavalryman,lawyer,politician,judge and scholar who became the 10th Governor of West Virginia after running as the candidate of the Republican Party. He also served in the West Virginia House of Delegates,as well as in the U.S. Congress from West Virginia and ended his career of public service as a United States federal judge of the Court of Claims.
The West Virginia University College of Media and Creative Arts,also known as the WVU CCAM or WVU College of Media and Creative Arts,is one of the colleges and schools at West Virginia University,located in Morgantown,West Virginia.
West Virginia Community and Technical College System is a statewide system of nine regional community colleges serving the state of West Virginia. It was created to bring uniformity to the state's system of community colleges. Previously some area had schools that were a part of large universities,others a part of small colleges,and others were stand alone. There also was a great overlap between different community colleges and between the community colleges and the state universities in the same areas. The system tries to define the programmatic distinctions between the community college and the state universities,and the geographic service area of each community college.
Irene Cornelia Berger is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
Phebe W. Sudlow was a pioneer for women in the education field and was the first female superintendent of a public school system in the United States. Sudlow also became the first female professor at the University of Iowa in 1878,despite having no formal college degree.
Louis Gentile is an American politician who served in the Ohio Senate,representing the 30th district from 2011 to 2017. He was also previously a member of the Ohio House of Representatives,serving briefly in 2011 prior to his appointment to the Senate. Gentile served as Assistant Minority Whip in the Ohio Senate and is a member of the Democratic Party.
Lillian M. Lowery was an American government official and educator who served as Superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education in the Cabinet of Governors Martin O'Malley and Larry Hogan from July 2012 to September,2015.
William C. Clayton was an American educator,lawyer,politician,and businessperson in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Clayton served in the West Virginia Senate representing the Eleventh Senatorial District of West Virginia from 1875 until 1879. He was twice principal of the Romney Classical Institute in Romney in 1853 and 1866.
Virginia B. Evans was a West Virginia visual artist and teacher. In the Ohio Valley region she became famous for her impressionist painting and art deco glass work. Considered one of West Virginia's foremost artists of the 20th century,Evans was deemed “one of the best trained and most gifted painters”in the region by a renowned national art columnist.
James McHenry Jones was an American educator,school administrator,businessperson,and minister. Jones was the third principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute from 1898 until 1909 and is considered by West Virginia State as the institution's third president.
John Henry Hill was an American lawyer,educator,school administrator,and military officer. He was the second principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute from 1894 until 1898. West Virginia State considers him its second president.
Ginny R. Favede is an American academic administrator who was the 13th president of Wheeling University,in Wheeling,West Virginia,serving from October 2019 to February 2024.
Margaret Buchanan Cole was an American mathematician and was one of the few women to achieve a PhD in mathematics before World War II. She retired from West Virginia University as a professor emeritus in 1955.
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