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Ohio County is a county located in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia, and forms part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census , the population was 42,425. [ 1 ]
Founded as the Wheeling Intelligencer in August 1852 by Eli B. Swearingen and Oliver Taylor, The Intelligencer is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the state of West Virginia. The paper was initially established as a means to promote Winfield Scott and the Whig Party in the 1852 United States presidential election .
As elsewhere in West Virginia, K–12 schools are organized at the county level of government. The public school system, Ohio County Schools, consists of 14 schools: nine elementary schools; four middle schools, which include Triadelphia Middle, nominated for the blue ribbon school award; and the nationally recognized Wheeling Park High School.
Thomas Sweeney was born in Armagh, Ireland to Thomas Sweeney and Sarah Ann Campbell.His family emigrated to the United States when he was a child. He and his brothers Michael, Campbell and Robert Henry Sweeney lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and by 1830 settled near the important Ohio River port of Wheeling in what was then Ohio County, Virginia.
Keith Maillard (born 28 February 1942, in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American Canadian novelist, poet, and professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia. [1] He moved to Canada in 1970 (due to his opposition to the Vietnam War) [2] [3] and became a Canadian citizen in 1976. [4] [5]
1929 – Wheeling Country Day School incorporated. 1930 – Oglebay Institute established. 1933 – Ohio County Public Library active. [12] 1935 – Wheeling News-Register newspaper in publication. [7] 1936 March 19: Ohio River flood. [4] City centennial. [16] 1937 – January 26: Ohio River flood of 1937. [4] 1942 – December 21: Ohio River ...
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.
Born in St. Clairsville, Ohio in 1817 to banker and U.S. Congressman James Caldwell Jr. (1770 - 1838) and his wife Anne Booker Caldwell, [2] Alfred Caldwell attended Washington College, in Washington, Pennsylvania and graduated (after a break unlike his cousin A. Bolton Caldwell) with an A. B. degree in 1836.