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    Literary Hall Romney Classical Institute The Romney Literary Society (also known as the Literary Society of Romney) existed from January 30, 1819, to February...
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    Route 50). Literary Hall was constructed between 1869 and 1870 by the Romney Literary Society. Founded in 1819, the Romney Literary Society was the first...
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  • organized in 1874. Another example is the Romney Literary Society (1819–1886), which was established in Romney, West Virginia. In Canada, The Bootmakers...
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  • result of a movement and debate for higher education by the Romney Literary Society, Romney Academy incorporated classical studies into its curriculum...
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  • outgrown its facilities. The Virginia General Assembly permitted the Romney Literary Society to raise funds for a new school through a lottery. On December...
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    Angus William McDonald (category Members of the Romney Literary Society)
    McDonald was a prominent member of the Romney Literary Society and served on the board of trustees governing Romney Academy following his appointment by...
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  • James Dillon Armstrong (category Members of the Romney Literary Society)
    the Romney Literary Society and he served on the Bank of Romney's board of directors when it was established in 1888. Armstriong died in Romney in 1893...
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    Howard Hille Johnson (category Members of the Romney Literary Society)
    educational work, Johnson wrote prose and poetry and was a member of the Romney Literary Society. Johnson was born on February 19, 1846, at his family's home on...
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    Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (politician) (category Members of the Romney Literary Society)
    prominent leader in the community and was elected as a member of the Romney Literary Society. Flournoy served on the fourth Board of Regents of the West Virginia...
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    Henry Bell Gilkeson (category Members of the Romney Literary Society)
    1877 to 1879. Before 1886, Gilkeson was elected a member of the Romney Literary Society together with his brother. From 1876 to 1888, Gilkeson served as...
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    Robert White (attorney general) (category Members of the Romney Literary Society)
    desolated during the war. White was one of nine members to revive the Romney Literary Society following the war, and in 1870, the organization successfully secured...
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  • literary events and publications of 1819. January 30 – Romney Literary Society is established in the United States as the Polemic Society of Romney,...
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    John Collins Covell (category Members of the Romney Literary Society)
    Church, Covell was a Mason of "high standing" and a member of the Romney Literary Society. Atkinson & Gibbens 1890, p. 897. National Conference of Superintendents...
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    Christian Streit White (category Members of the Romney Literary Society)
    Also following the war, White was elected as a member of the Romney Literary Society. By 1876, White was serving as the chairman of the Hampshire County...
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  • Purgitsville Rio Elementary School, Rio Romney Colored School, Romney Romney High School, Romney Romney Junior High School, Romney Springfield Elementary School...
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  • Established, 1870. The Classical Institute was donated by the Romney Literary Society as the initial building unit. Co-educational school giving academic...
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  • the University of Virginia. January 30 – Romney Literary Society established as the Polemic Society of Romney, West Virginia. February 2 – The Supreme...
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    West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (category Buildings and structures in Romney, West Virginia)
    consisting of the buildings and grounds of the Romney Literary Society's Romney Classical Institute. The Romney Classical Institute had lain dormant since...
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    John Baker White (clerk of court) (category Members of the Romney Literary Society)
    instruction, White was an active member of the Romney Literary Society. When the act of incorporation for Romney Academy was amended by the Virginia General...
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    born within the present-day borders of the state. He attended the Romney Academy in Romney and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Jacob practiced...
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    Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. It covers about 100 square miles...
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    Kerns, Wilmer L., eds. (2004). Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1754–2004. Romney, West Virginia: The Hampshire County 250th Anniversary Committee. ISBN 978-0-9715738-2-6...
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    John J. Cornwell (category People from Romney, West Virginia)
    Cornwell (July 11, 1867 – September 8, 1953) was a Democratic politician from Romney in Hampshire County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Cornwell served...
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  • Hampshire High School (West Virginia) (category Buildings and structures in Romney, West Virginia)
    Hampshire High School is a public school in Romney, West Virginia that serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of Hampshire County Schools under the auspices...
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  • John Rinehart Blue (category People from Romney, West Virginia)
    Delegates representing Hampshire County, from 1953 until 1959. Born in 1905 in Romney, West Virginia, Blue was a grandson of Lieutenant John Monroe Blue, a member...
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  • Richard Romney Sedgwick (29 May 1894 – 20 January 1972) was a British historian, civil servant and diplomat. He was the elder son of Professor Adam Sedgwick...
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    Robert White (West Virginia state senator) (category People from Romney, West Virginia)
    Democratic Party members of the West Virginia Senate. White was born in Romney, West Virginia, in 1876 to Hampshire County Clerk of Court Christian Streit...
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    William Henry Foote (category People from Romney, West Virginia)
    Church until 1833. Meanwhile, he served as the principal of the Romney Academy in Romney, West Virginia, from 1826 to 1838. He also served as the first...
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  • Historic educational societies and institutions Potomac Seminary Romney Academy Romney Classical Institute Romney Literary Society Springfield Academy...
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  • Mary Ann Shaffer (category People from Romney, West Virginia)
    is noted for her posthumously published work The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which she wrote with her niece, Annie Barrows. Mary Ann...
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