Hampshire Review

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Hampshire Review
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Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
OwnerCornwell & Ailes Inc.
PublisherCraig See
EditorSallie See
Founded1884
Headquarters74 West Main St. Romney, WV 26757
Circulation 7,150(as of 2016) [1]
ISSN 0736-5497
OCLC number 9805487
Website hampshirereview.com

The Hampshire Review is a weekly newspaper serving Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. [2] Headquartered in the city of Romney, it is published on Wednesday. [3] Its 2020 circulation was 7,200. [1] It is owned by Cornwell & Ailes Inc. [1]

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The early Hampshire Review

Established 1884 by the Review Company, [4] [5] the Hampshire Review was launched as a seven column folio by C.F. Poland. [5] The strongest paper in the county up until that time, [5] it was edited and owned by Poland until he sold it to the Cornwell Brothers in 1890. [5] Poland moved on to the Intelligencer, a long-established paper in the area. [6]

South Branch Intelligencer and merger

Sometime around 1830, William Harper started the Hampshire and Hardy Intelligencer, changed shortly to the South Branch Intelligencer [6] [7] A six-column four page paper, initially printed on a Franklin Press, [6] it was a Whig party vehicle up until the American Civil War, but became a Democratic paper after it. [6]

After Harper's death in 1887, his wife took over the paper, selling it to a stock company in 1890. [6] The stock company put C.F. Poland, who had recently sold the Hampshire Review, at the helm. [6] In 1897 the stock and fixtures were sold to the Cornwells and merged with the Review, with John Jacob. [6]

John Jacob Cornwell continued as editor until winning election for governor in 1916. [8] [9] The Cornwell family has had a stake in the paper since the 1890s.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  2. ↑ "Newspapers Currently Received in the West Virginia Archives and History Library" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. State of West Virginia. December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Hampshire Review". Mondo Times.
  4. ↑ "About Hampshire Review". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Maxwell, Hu; Swisher, Howard Llewellyn (1897). History of Hampshire County, West Virginia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present. A.B. Boughner, printer. p.  722. Hampshire Review.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Maxwell, Hu; Swisher, Howard Llewellyn (1897). History of Hampshire County, West Virginia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present. A.B. Boughner, printer. pp.  356–357. Hampshire Review.
  7. ↑ Norona, Delf (1958). West Virginia imprints, 1790-1863; a checklist of books, newspapers, periodicals, and broadsides. University of Connecticut Libraries. Moundsville, West Virginia Library Association.
  8. ↑ "Governor John Jacob Cornwell". National Governor's Association.
  9. ↑ Onofrio, Jan (January 1, 1999). West Virginia Biographical Dictionary. Somerset Publishers, Inc. ISBN   9780403098446.


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