Members of the Romney Literary Society (also known as the Polemic Society of Romney and The Literary Society of Romney)
Symbol | Era of enrollment |
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† | 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] |
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† |
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