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Cooke was president of Tidewater Newspapers, Inc. in Gloucester, Virginia and published the Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal newspaper from 1954 until March 2009. [3] [5] Cooke was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1941, representing Mathews and Gloucester Counties on the Middle Peninsula.
Gloucester County (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / GLOST-ər) [1] is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,711. [2] Its county seat is Gloucester Courthouse. [3]
Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal: Gloucester: 1937 Weekly ... Virginia Chronicle and Norfolk and Portsmouth General Advertiser. W., July 28, 1792 – Apr. 5, 1794.
Thornton was commissioned as cornet in Lee's Legion of Light Dragoons on April 21, 1778 serving until January 1, 1779. [7] The majority of his period of service in the Continental ranks was training and foraging, his troop was involved in the retaliatory skirmish known as the "Battle of Edgar's Lane" on September 30, 1778 near Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. [8]
Beginning in 1654, Warner used the land patents he acquired by paying for English people to emigrate to the booming Virginia colony to acquire land across the York River in Gloucester County (previously reserved for Native Americans, but released pursuant to a treaty negotiated by Governor William Berkeley during the Anglo-Powhatan Wars and ...
William Booth Taliaferro was born in Gloucester County, Virginia, to an Anglo-Italian family, the Taliaferros.He was the son of Frances Amanda Todd (Booth) and Warner Throckmorton Taliaferro, [1] and the nephew of James A. Seddon, who would become Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis.
He was born in Petsworth, Gloucester County, Virginia [1] (though some sources give Salisbury, Maryland), [2] and grew up in Norfolk.He learned to play the tenor saxophone, and began playing in local bands before turning professional as a member of Johnson's Happy Pals in Richmond.
Alexandria, Virginia: Buried: Arlington National Cemetery [1] Service / branch: ... Hatch was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in nearby Gloucester. [2] [3]