Glenville Pathfinder

The Glenville Pathfinder is a newspaper serving Glenville, West Virginia, and surrounding Gilmer County.[1] Published weekly, it has a circulation of 1,194 and is owned by Glenville-Corcoran Newspapers.[2]

It was founded in 1892 as a weekly by Wat Warren,[3] as a Republican weekly. By 1920, it had a circulation of 700 and was published by Hunter W. Brannon.[4]

In 1971, it was bought (along with sister publication the Democrat) by two New York executives -- one a banker and one an editor of a sporting magazine -- looking to escape city life and settle in small-town West Virginia.[5] Robert Arnold, the banker, was a former resident of the area returning home.[6] Stanley Meseroll, who at the time was the managing editor of the New York-based Sports Afield, was drawn to the area's opportunities for hunting and fishing.[6] The pair were able within a few short years to increase subscriptions from 2,000 to 3,400, and increase staff to five and a half employees, partially due to a streamlined billing and subscription process.[6] The resulting publicity surrounding the move was enough of a point of pride to West Virginians that Senator Robert Byrd had press regarding the move read into the Senate Record.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  3. ↑ "About Glenville Pathfinder". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  4. ↑ Harris, John T. (1920). West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register. Charleston, West Virginia: Tribune Printing Company. p. 679.
  5. ↑ "Getting Away From It All". Beckley Post-Herald. 27 August 1971.
  6. 1 2 3 Tomkinson, Craig (27 May 1972). "Ex-New York Execs In the Hills". Editor & Publisher. 105.
  7. ↑ Senate - Tuesday, June 6, 1972 (PDF). Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Publishing Office. 1972. pp. 19793–19794.
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