The Hampshire Review is a weekly newspaper serving Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia.[2] Headquartered in the town of Romney, it is published on Wednesday.[3] Its 2020 circulation was 7,200.[1] It is owned by Cornwell & Ailes Inc.[1]
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.
Resources
References
- ^ a b c 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Hampshire Review". Mondo Times.
- ^ "About Hampshire Review". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Governor John Jacob Cornwell". National Governor's Association.
- ^ Onofrio, Jan (1999-01-01). West Virginia Biographical Dictionary. Somerset Publishers, Inc. ISBN 9780403098446.