User:West Virginian/List of members of the Romney Literary Society
Members of the Romney Literary Society (also known as the Polemic Society of Romney and The Literary Society of Romney)
Key edit
| Symbol | Era of enrollment |
|---|---|
| † | Elected as a member of the society between January 30, 1819 and 1861.[1][2] |
| ‡ | Elected as a member of the society between May 15, 1869 and February 15, 1886.[3] |
Members edit
| Member[1][2][3] | Image | Notes |
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| Francis A. Armstrong† | ||
| James Dillon Armstrong† | ||
| Neill Armstrong† | ||
| R. W. Baker† | ||
| Thomas Blair† | ||
| T. T. Brady‡ | ||
| Joseph W. Bronaugh† | ||
| Lemuel Campbell‡ | ||
| James H. Clark† | ||
| John Collins Covell‡ | 
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John Collins Covell (1823–1887) was an educator and school administrator who specialized in deaf education. Covell served as the principal of both the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind (1862–1872) and West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind (1874–1887). Covell was appointed the first churchwarden of Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church in Romney.[4][5] |
| William Curlett† | ||
| Andrew Wodrow Dailey† | ||
| James Dailey† | ||
| R. W. Dailey‡ | 
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| Dr. R. W. Dailey‡ | ||
| C. M. Davis‡ | ||
| Joseph P. Eblin† | ||
| David Entler† | ||
| R. G. Ferguson‡ | ||
| Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy‡ | 
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Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (1846–1904) was a lawyer and politician who served in the West Virginia Senate representing the 12th Senatorial District (1885–1890) and served three terms as mayor of Romney. Flournoy also served on the Board of Regents for the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind (1876–1880) and briefly as the principal of Potomac Academy (1870).[6][7][8] |
| Andrew Gibson† | ||
| David Gibson† | 
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| James Gibson† | ||
| James A. Gibson‡ | ||
| Edward M. Gilkeson‡ | ||
| Henry Bell Gilkeson‡ | 
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Henry Bell Gilkeson (1850–1921) was a lawyer and politician who served in the West Virginia Senate (1890–1893) and West Virginia House of Delegates (1883–1885 and 1909–1911). He also served as the mayor of Romney (1885) and the first president of the Bank of Romney (1888–1913). Gilkeson was a member of the Board of Regents and the principal of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind.[8][9][10][11] |
| William Harper† | ||
| John C. Heiskell† | ||
| Henry M. Inskeep† | ||
| Isaac A. Inskeep† | ||
| J. J. Inskeep‡ | ||
| C. T. Jack† | ||
| James R. Jack† | ||
| John G. Jack† | ||
| Howard Hille Johnson‡ | 
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Howard Hille Johnson (1846–1913) was a blind educator and writer who was instrumental in the establishment of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind in 1870, after which he taught blind students at the School for the Blind for 43 years.[12][13] |
| Samuel Kercheval, Jr.† | ||
| Andrew Wodrow Kercheval† | 
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Andrew Wodrow Kercheval (1824–1896) was a writer, poet, and historian, and was the grandson of Hampshire County Clerk of Court Andrew Wodrow and Virginia historian Samuel Kercheval. His father, Samuel Kercheval, Jr., was a founding member of the society.[14][15][16] |
| Nathaniel Kuykendall† | ||
| Samuel R. Lupton† | ||
| Angus William McDonald† | 
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Angus William McDonald (1799–1864) was a military officer and lawyer who served as a colonel in command of the Confederate States Army's 7th Virginia Cavalry during the American Civil War. McDonald was appointed as superintendent of the Northwestern Turnpike's construction and a commissioner representing Virginia in its boundary dispute with Maryland.[17][18][19] |
| Edward C. McDonald† | ||
| Thomas McDonald† | ||
| John McDowell† | ||
| John H. McEndree† | ||
| Henry M. Machen† | ||
| Alfred T. Magill† | ||
| Charles T. Magill† | ||
| William Mulledy† | ||
| William Naylor† | ||
| William S. Naylor† | ||
| Granville Newman† | ||
| E. W. Newton† | ||
| Isaac Henry Clay Pancake‡ | 
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| John S. Pancake‡ | ||
| J. D. Parsons‡ | ||
| James Parsons† | ||
| Peter Peters† | ||
| Cuthbert Powell† | ||
| Robert J. Pugh‡ | ||
| Thomas Ragland† | ||
| William Sherrard† | ||
| John Snyder† | ||
| James M. Stephens† | ||
| Chichester Tapscott† | ||
| Newton Tapscott† | ||
| John Temple† | ||
| John A. Thompson† | ||
| William Thompson† | ||
| Warren Throckmorton† | ||
| John T. Vance‡ | ||
| Alfred P. White† | ||
| Christian Streit White‡ | 
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Christian Streit White (1839–1917) was a lawyer and military officer who served as a Captain in the Confederate States Army and led a bureau of the Confederate States Department of the Treasury. White served as the Hampshire County Clerk of Court (1873–1902) and Circuit Court Clerk (1873–1876), and later as President of the West Virginia Fish Commission. White was the son of Hampshire County Clerk of Court and society member John Baker White.[20][21] |
| John Baker White† | 
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John Baker White (1794–1862) was a lawyer and politician who served as Hampshire County Clerk of Court between 1815 and 1861, and thus remains the longest-serving Clerk of Court since the office's 1757 creation. During the American Civil War, White served in the Confederate States Department of the Treasury. He is the father of society members Christian Streit White and Robert White.[22][23][24] |
| Robert White† | 
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Robert White (1833–1915) was a lawyer and politician who served as a Colonel under the command of Lieutenant General Stonewall Jackson during the American Civil War. He later served as Attorney General of West Virginia (1877–1881). White was the son of Hampshire County Clerk of Court and society member John Baker White.[14][25][26] |
| Thomas B. White† | ||
| Washington G. Williams† | ||
| Wilbur Wirgman‡ | ||
| William C. Wodrow† |
References edit
- ^ a b Maxwell & Swisher 1897, p. 433.
- ^ a b Maxwell & Swisher 1897, pp. 434–435.
- ^ a b Maxwell & Swisher 1897, p. 436.
- ^ Atkinson 1890, p. 897.
- ^ Peterkin 1902, p. 578.
- ^ Atkinson 1890, p. 442.
- ^ Miller & Maxwell 1913, p. 84.
- ^ a b Maxwell & Swisher 1897, pp. 478–479.
- ^ Maxwell & Swisher 1897, p. 477.
- ^ Munske & Kerns 2004, p. 115.
- ^ Brannon 1976, p. 473.
- ^ Maxwell & Swisher 1897, pp. 455–462.
- ^ Morton 1910, p. 235.
- ^ a b Brannon 1976, p. 261.
- ^ Wayland 2006, p. 286.
- ^ Maxwell & Swisher 1897, pp. 439–443.
- ^ Davis 2012, p. 211.
- ^ Munske & Kerns 2004, p. 183.
- ^ Williams 1911, pp. 54–112.
- ^ Atkinson 1890, p. 645.
- ^ Maxwell & Swisher 1897, p. 743.
- ^ Munske & Kerns 2004, p. 39.
- ^ Munske & Kerns 2004, p. 40.
- ^ Maxwell & Swisher 1897, p. 741.
- ^ Atkinson 1890, pp. 973–974.
- ^ Maxwell & Swisher 1897, pp. 741–742.
Bibliography edit
- Atkinson, George Wesley (1890). Prominent Men of West Virginia: Biographical Sketches of Representative Men in Every Honorable Vocation, Including Politics, the Law, Theology, Medicine, Education, Finance, Journalism, Trade, Commerce and Agriculture. Wheeling, West Virginia: W. L. Callin.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Brannon, Selden W. (1976). Historic Hampshire: A Symposium of Hampshire County and Its People, Past and Present. Parsons, West Virginia: McClain Printing Company. ISBN 978-0-87012-236-1. OCLC 3121468.
- Davis, William C. (2012). Virginia at War, 1865. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813134680.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Federal Writers' Project (1937). Historic Romney 1762–1937. Romney, West Virginia: Federal Writers' Project, The Town Council of Romney, West Virginia. OCLC 2006735.
- Maxwell, Hu; Swisher, Howard Llewellyn (1897). History of Hampshire County, West Virginia From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present. Morgantown, West Virginia: A. Brown Boughner, Printer. OCLC 680931891. OL 23304577M.
- Miller, Thomas Condit; Maxwell, Hu (1913). West Virginia and Its People, Volume 2. New York City: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. OCLC 1449151.
- Morton, Oren Frederic (1910). A History of Pendleton County, West Virginia. Dayton, Virginia: Ruebush-Elkins Company.
- Munske, Roberta R.; Kerns, Wilmer L. (2004). Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1754-2004. The Hampshire County 250th Anniversary Committee. ISBN 978-0-9715738-2-6. OCLC 55983178.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Peterkin, George W. (1902). A History and Record of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of West Virginia, and Before the Formation of the Diocese in 1878, in the Territory Now Known as the State of West Virginia. Charleston, West Virginia: The Tribune Company, Printers.
- Wayland, John Walter (2006). A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8063-8011-7. OCLC 123175328.
- Williams, Flora McDonald (1911). The Glengarry McDonalds of Virginia. Louisville, Kentucky: George G. Fetter Company. OCLC 5149045.
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