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The News Leader is a daily newspaper owned by Gannett and serving Staunton, Virginia, and the surrounding areas. It was founded in 1904 by Brig. Gen. Hierome L. Opie as The Evening Leader . [ 2 ]
Staunton: 1904 Daily Gannett Company [10] News Progress: Mecklenburg County: 1884 Weekly Womack Publishing Co. Inc. [2] News Virginian: Waynesboro: Daily Lee Enterprises: Northern Virginia Daily: Strasburg: Daily Ogden Newspapers Inc. [11] Orange County Review: Orange: Weekly Lee Enterprises: Page News and Courier: Page County: 1911 Weekly ...
He moved to Staunton, Virginia in 1789 and held several local offices before being elected the first mayor of Staunton under the new charter of 1801. He was reelected mayor in 1804 before being elected a Federalist to the United States House of Representatives in 1808, serving from 1809 to 1811 having defeated Democratic-Republican Daniel Smith.
Born in Staunton, George was the first born child of Peyton Cochran and his wife Susie Baldwin Robertson, both of prominent local families. On his mother's side, Cochran was descended from Alexander H.H. Stuart, a U.S. Congressman before the American Civil War who also helped organize the U.S. Department of the Interior under President Millard Fillmore.
Rosenbluth was born in the Bronx [1] on January 22, 1933. [2] [3] His family was Jewish. [4]He was the son of Rose (Kaufman) and Jack Rosenbluth. [5] He attended James Monroe High School in the Bronx, and Staunton Military Academy in Staunton, Virginia, for the 1952–53 school year.
Thomas Jasper Collins (August 2, 1844 - October 6, 1925), [1] commonly known as T. J. Collins, was an American architect.He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later became an architect, practicing first in Washington, D.C., before moving to Staunton, Virginia in 1890. [2]
John Marshall Coleman (born June 8, 1942) is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly during the 1970s. He was the first Republican elected as Attorney General of Virginia since Reconstruction (and of any ex-Confederate state since 1896) and served 1978–1982, although his later campaigns for Governor of Virginia and U.S. Senate ...
Augustus John Turner, (October 12, 1818 – May 14, 1905), known as "A. J. Turner", was an American composer, band leader and music professor.. He was the first director of the Stonewall Brigade Band of Staunton, Virginia, the oldest continuous community band funded by tax moneys in the United States.