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West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043-325X. Delf Norona (1958). West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals and Broadsides. Moundsville: West Virginia Library Association. OCLC 863601 – via Internet Archive. G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: West Virginia".
The Fayette County Public Library houses microfilm records of census records from 1840 to 1930, newspapers from 1906-present, WV county death, marriage, and birth records, Fayette County yearbooks, local magazines, family collections, the West Virginia Collection, and other miscellaneous collections about West Virginia.
It took its name after the 1928 merger of the Mineral Daily News and the Keyser Tribune. [4] The Daily News was founded in Keyser in 1912; [1] the other paper had begun as the West Virginia Tribune, published in New Creek, West Virginia, in 1870. [5] Gannett sold the newspaper in 2022 to NCWV Media. [6]
The oldest of the two papers, the Reporter, was founded as the Weekly Bulletin in 1881. [2] It became the Roane County Reporter in 1915, [3] under the editorship of S. Jack. [4] Shortly after this change, the paper, a Democratic weekly, engaged in a controversy with the Times-Record in the editorial pages over a preacher named Wood, who had become involved in a political matter. [5]
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The newspaper changed its name in 1913 to The Martinsburg West Va. Evening Journal; in 1920, to The Martinsburg Journal; back to The Evening Journal in 1978; to The Morning Journal in 1990; and to its current name in 1993. [3] H.C. Ogden's grandson, G. Ogden Nutting, began his newspaper career at The Martinsburg Journal as a reporter and news ...
The Statesman began its life as the Grafton Sentinel, a publication that was only weeks old when editor and publisher James W. Holt took it over in 1870. [1] Holt, a 21 year old who had previously worked at the Preston County Journal, went through a series of partners but, aside from a short period of divestment from the paper in 1875, remained editor and publisher of the paper until 1893, [5 ...
The State Journal was founded as a statewide business newspaper in 1984. It was created by brothers Robert C. and Henry E. Payne, III, and lawyer Fred F. Holroyd. The newspaper was sold to Lorenelle White in 1997. [1] West Virginia Media Holdings acquired the newspaper from the White family in November 2001. The company would go on to sell the ...