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Glass worked in the family business, Lynchburg's daily newspapers the News and Advance, later combined as The News & Advance. He started in marketing and public relations, and rose to publisher. During his tenure, the publishing group added local newspapers in Culpeper, Richlands, and Tazewell and continued publishing until 1979.
Virgil Alexander Wood was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 6, 1931. [1] In 1948 he interviewed his grandfather Jesse, who had been born into slavery and recalled witnessing the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by a Union soldier.
Daily Lee Enterprises: Mount Vernon Voice: Alexandria: 2002 Weekly New Journal and Guide: Norfolk: 1900 Weekly News & Advance [5] Lynchburg: 1986 Daily Lee Enterprises: News-Gazette [5] Lexington 1801 [9] Weekly The News-Gazette Corp. Began as the Rockbridge Repository 1801: News Leader: Staunton: 1904 Daily Gannett Company [10] News Progress ...
The News & Advance, Lynchburg's daily newspaper that serves the Central Virginia region, owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Lynchburg Living, bi-monthly periodical; The Lynchburg Guide, quarterly resource directory; The Burg, weekly entertainment newspaper published by The News & Advance; Lynch's Ferry, a biannual journal of local history
His Owen ancestors had emigrated from Wales, and the family had a record of public service as politicians, doctors and teachers. His brother Dr. William Otway Owen Sr. (1820–92), like their father practiced medicine in Lynchburg, and became Surgeon-in-Chief supervising thirty Confederate hospitals in Lynchburg during the American Civil War. [1]
Born in Saluda, Virginia, on September 11, 1919, Margaret Elinor Tynes was one of ten children born to Lucy Jane (née Rich) and Rev. J. W. Tynes. [6] Her family was involved with the leadership at Northern Neck Industrial Academy; [7] [8] and they later moved to Lynchburg and finally to Greensboro, North Carolina, where her father was the pastor of the Providence Baptist Church for 26 years.
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Carter Glass was born on January 4, 1858, in Lynchburg, Virginia, the last child born to Robert Henry Glass and his first wife, the former Augusta Elizabeth Christian.His mother died on January 15, 1860, when Carter was only two years old, so his sister Nannie, ten years older (and Elizabeth's only daughter), became his surrogate mother.