Hampshire Review

The Hampshire Review is a weekly newspaper serving Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia.[2] Headquartered in the town of Hardy, it is published on Wednesday.[3] Its 2016 circulation was 7,150.[1] It is owned by Cornwell & Ailes Inc.[1]

Hampshire Review
Typeweekly
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Cornwell & Ailes Inc.
PublisherCraig See
EditorSallie See
Founded1884
Headquarters74 West Main St. Romney, WV 26757
Circulation7,150[1]
ISSN0736-5497
OCLC number9805487
Websitewww.hampshirereview.com

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 Cornell Brothers in 1890.[5] Poland moved on to the Intelligencer, an 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
  1. 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. 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. 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 (1999-01-01). West Virginia Biographical Dictionary. Somerset Publishers, Inc. ISBN 9780403098446.


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