Hampshire Review

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

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. ↑ "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. ↑ "Hampshire Review". Mondo Times.
  3. 1 2 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  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.
  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.
  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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