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West Virginia Wesleyan Hall of Fame John J. Knight (December 20, 1899 – July 12, 1988) was an American athletic director and college football coach. He was the athletic director for Bethany College from 1933 until his retirement in 1969.
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Knight was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, to Charles Landon Knight and Clara Irene Shively. Known to his family and friends as "Jack," he attended Cornell University but never graduated, leaving early to enlist in the Army. While at Cornell he was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. However, he later received the degree of "War Alumnus."
The State Journal was founded as a statewide business newspaper in 1984. It was created by brothers Robert C. and Henry E. Payne, III, and lawyer Fred F. Holroyd. The newspaper was sold to Lorenelle White in 1997. [1] West Virginia Media Holdings acquired the newspaper from the White family in November 2001. The company would go on to sell the ...
Bethany is a town in southern Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 756 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area. It is best known as the home of Bethany College, a private liberal arts college that was the first institution of higher education in what is now West Virginia.
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Brooke County is a county in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,559. [1] Its county seat is Wellsburg. [2] The county was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County [3] and named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796. [4]
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of West Virginia. The first such newspaper was The Pioneer Press of Martinsburg, started by J.R. Clifford in 1882. [1] West Virginia's last African American newspaper, the West Virginia Beacon Digest of Charleston, shut down in 2006. [2]