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...COUNTY HIST 1 0RICAL SOCIETY Organized May 2 1, 192 7 OFFJCERS President--A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown. Vice·President-JWright Denny, Charles Town. Recording Secretary~Henry T. MCDonald, Harpers Ferry. Corre6J)Onding Secretary-Ella May Turner, She-phet·dsiown. Treasurer-M.ary T....
... HJSTORICAL SOCIETY 0 r g an i zed Ma 1• 2 1 , 1 9 2 7 OFFICERS President-A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice-President-Wright Denny, Charles Town, W. Va. Recording Secretary-Henry T. McDonald, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary-Ella May Turner, Shepherdstown, W...
...nry Bedinger, Dec. 3, 1782. Previously at battle of Eutaw Springs. Lived on Angel Hill in Shepherdstown. Avis, George. Death reported from Harpers Ferry in 1796. Baylor, Robert. Lived on Bullskin. Moved to Kentucky, Feb. 13, 1804. Bedinger, Lieut. Daniel. b. York Co., Pa., Jan. 1...
...t. Shepherd's Co. Taken prisoner at Ft. __ washington and exchanged. Kept Globe Tavern in Shepherdstown. Brov.rn, Samuel. Pvt. in Capt. Shepherd's Co. Taken prisoner at Ft. Washington and exchanged. Killed September 26, 1777. Bryan Daniel. d. 1834. Served in Maryland line. Moved ...
...ERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIE1Y Organized May 21, 1927 OFFICERS President-A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice-President-Wright Denny, Charles Town, W. Va. Recording Secretary-Henry T. McDonald, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary-Ella May Turner, Shepherdstow11, ...
...cadem 1y. ''Mr. Frederick Ells\vorth teaches the Academy." ( Danske Dandrict'ge, Historic Shepherdstown, from irginia Monitor, May 1 o, t 821.) 182 1. Shepherdstown Academy. ''The next term of the hepherdstown Academy \Vilt commence on Monday the 8th inst. Those \vho wish to send...
...er of Prin·ccss and ew Streets. ame type of architecture as the 184 7 Potomac hool. 1869. Shepherdstown Sem1inary. ''SHEPHERDSTOW~ EMI ARY. The duties of this School will be resumed on 1st Monday of Septem 1ber, 1869. The Higher English branches, Latin, French, and Music will be ...
...poa session when she ourchased the home of Miss Aa..manda Miller on Washington Street in Shepherdstown and others loaned to her by Mrs. Charles Miller, a niece of E. Hutchinson Miller.) In the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington there is a water •color, entitled ''Moonrise and Tw...
...20, 1769. He be came quite wealthy, and built himself a stone house on the south side of Shepherdstown, near two springs,. '' This from Miss Bittinger's record does not tally with his will in which he bequeaths to his d·aughter, Sarah, ''the house and lot I now live in, containi...
• • 4 Magazine of the SHEPHERDSTOWN A CENTURY AGO, AND SOME OF ITS MASTER BUILDERS (By George B. Folk, a great grandson of Joseph Randall, the master builder. September 1948) You who have collected the ''Registered Past'' itellls f roni the Shepherdstown Register over the years a...
...he The most authoritative work is that recently pub lished · by Miss Ella May Turner, of Shepherdstown, en titled, 'Ja:mes Ru:msey, Pioneer in Steain Navigation,' (1930). This exhaustive study of the subject is a carefully planned and balanced work, p1--esenting documentary evi...
... of population, north and south, as well as east and west. At the tirne of the Revolution Shepherdstown had a population of approxirnately 1,800. Shepherdstown from its foundation in 1731-32 had been the center of on corning hordes of new settlers from Pennsylvania and Delaware, ...
...ta Burton Hilleary Museum Charles Town, West Virginia OFFICERS President -A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice President -J. Burns Huyett, Charles Town, W. Va. Recording Secretary -Thornton T. Perry, Jr., Charles Town. Corresponding Secretary -Rachel Snyder, Shepherdstown. ...
...1793 and continued his education until prepared to practice law. Taking up resi dence in Shepherdstown he soon rose to distinction in his profession. His reputation as a trial lawyer resulted in his being chosen a member of the counsel to def end Aaron Burr in the famous trial f...
...ta Burton Hilleary Museum Charles Town. West Virginia OFFICERS President -A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice President -J. Burns Huyett, Charles Town, W. Va. Recording Secretary -Thornton T. Perry, Jr., Charles Town. Corresponding Secretary -Rachel Snyder, Shepherdstown. ...
Jefferson County Historical Society 21 MEMORIAL PLAQUES IN SHEPHERDSTOWN On April 24 three memorials to Thomas Shepherd, founder of Shepherdstown, and on May 1 7 a memorial to James Rumsey, inventor of the steamboat, were dedi cated with appropriate ceremonies. The former had be...
...rding Secretary -Thornton T. Perry, Charles Town Corresponding Secretary -A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown Treasurer -Miss Rachel Snyder, Shepherdstown Curator -Mrs. Robert T. Browse, Cha1·les Town 3 Directors -Miss Anne Lloyd Baylor, Cha1--1es Town; Miss Margaret P. Chew, Charles T...
...g Secretary •-Thornton T. Perry, Charles Town Cori· po11ding Secretary ,_ A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown Trca urer - iss Rachel Snyder Shepherdstown Cur or - rs. Robert T. Browse, Charles Town 3 Dir ctOI"S -iss Anne Lloyd Baylor, Charles Town; Miss Margaret P. Che,,,. Charles Town...
58 The Magazine of the THE KENAMONDS OF SHEPHERDSTOWN The Jefferson County Historical Society has been singularly blessed throug·h the outstanding and loyal service over three decades of an unusual and capable couple, Mr. A. D. Kenamond and his wife, Alice. Now that Mr. Kenamond'...
...during the excavation for the house and set in the garden off the living room terrace. 6. SHEPHERDSTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY 1966 Location: German and King Streets, Shepherdstown. This building, constructed in 1800, was first used as a Market House. Then in 1845 a second story was adde...
...y of his de scendants still living in Shepherds town? A letter to the public library in Shepherdstown yielded a bicenten nial book published in 1962 entitled Prominent Men of Shepherdstown. Three pages in the book were de voted to a brief history on Craft and a picture of one...
... clocks and found not the slightest clue of any. Just before heading home from my trip to Shepherdstown, I went to Gaithersburg, Maryland, to the Meth odist Asbury Home and visited with Miss Lucy Schoppert, previously menticned in the article, who is now ninety-seven years old. ...
...oved and erected on its present site in the Town Park. Edith (Mrs. Newton) Alexander III: Shepherdstown The Shepherdstown Commission for the celebration of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution is made up of three officers and twelve members: William Vaughn, chairman; John ...
...nd, where they scattered petals of dried red, white, and blue flowers from the gardens of Shepherdstown. He died in London, where he had gone for support of his project after his successful demonstration of propelling a boat against the current by steam on the Potomac at Shepherd...
...Summit Point Curator-William H. Wilson, Charles Town 3 Directors-Dr. William J. Barnhart, Shepherdstown; Frank W. Buckles, Charles Town; Mrs. J. Blackwell Davis, Charles Town; Archie W. Franzen Harpers Ferry; Bradley Nash, Harpers Ferry; Major Thornton T. Perry, Charles Town; Cap...
...ll these years. In 1962 he wrote a series of 50 sketches which he called Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 's First 200 Years 1762-1962, as a contribution to tl1e Shepherdstown Bicentennial observance which was clebrated that year. One sketch was published each week in the Shepherds...
... groups held in the War Memorial Building to elect officers and directors of the Historic Shepherdstown Commission for the coming year, to organize all-out efforts towards completion or continuation of current projects of benefit to the town, and to consider new projects. On Sept...
...r the matter a few years ago when I wrote with Miss Linnie Schley the history of Trinity, Shepherdstown, for the Diocese of West Virginia, and quoted with a certain partisan glee Fithian's remarks about the parish church. In turn, Eleanor M. Hamilton's The Flair and the Fire: The...
...oroform as an anaesthetic occured at the Orebank during this period. Dr. John Reynolds of Shepherdstown, assisted by Ors. Butler and Taylor, amputated the leg of an Irish workman at this site on March 1, 1848. 22 The chloroform had been obtained from Baltimore. The Antietam Iron ...
42 The Magazine of the HISTORIC SHEPHERDSTOWN COMMISSION During the fall of 1983 and the spring and summer of I 984 the Historic Shepherdstown Commission accomplished a major goal in the restoration of the Entler Hotel. The Commission removed the collapsing porches from the rear ...
...ostesses are members of the Gateway Garden Club. 6. SPRING MILL Location: Halfway between Shepherdstown and Harpers Ferry on Rt. 28. East of Molers Crossroads along Potomac River. According to a date-stone set in the side of the mill-wall facing the Potomac, Spring Mill was built...
... that he had just bought a new plantation from Mr. Cox, and as payment had drawn upon two Shepherdstown merchants for '' 50 pounds in goods'' and asked Josiah to ''furnish the said merchants with all the grain and other stuff that is in your hands of mine to help satisfy what I s...
...y Walter Washington In October, I 859 there were four newspapers in Jefferson County, the Shepherdstown Register, the Spirit of Jefferson, the Virginia Free Press and the Independent Democrat, the last three all published in Charles Town. The October 22, 1859 issue of the Shepher...
...in December the college basketball team resumed travel games. 47 With similar fanfare the Shepherdstown stores returned to life. Having ((been closed at night for about a month on account of the influenza, [ the shops] were lighted up last Saturday night as usual, and the town pr...
...ford'', the home of Daniel Bedinger and Sarah Rutherford Daniel felt it best to return to Shepherdstown. July 24, 1798, Daniel's younger brother Solomon Bedinger wrote to Henry from Norfolk: 'Brother Daniel and family sailed from here with a fair wind on Saturday last. I hope by ...
...is would be the fir t of many celebrations commemorating the Men of 1775 . 78 72 Historic Shepherdstown. Page 316-317. 73 Hulse family network. Revolutionary War. http://www.hulsenet.net/revolutionary-war/. 74 Historic Shepherdstown. Pages 356. 75 Ibid. Page 295. 76 Ibid. 77 Dani...
24 Magazine of the It is believed that a church was 1built in Shepherdstown in 1769, as there ,was a stone over the door of the old church bearing that dat• e. Thomas Shepherd in his will ·dated March 23, 1776, said: ''It is my desire that the lot in the town of Mecklenburg on wh...
... Though there are no re·-cords of a very early date in regard to a Presbyterian Church in Shepherdstown, if Dr. Grahrum is correct in his surmise that Po~omoke in Virgin 1 ia was identified with Mecklenburg or Shepherdstown, it seems likely that the first minister to C 1onduct se...
... dy county for a tin1e. After remaining there for nearly five ears he acce11ted a call to Shepherdstown, in the hope that a change in locality ,vould bring a·bout an improvement in his health. As he \vas a member of Lexington Presbytery and the cl1urch at hepherdsto\vn was under ...
8 • Magazine of the THE SHEPHERDSTOWN REGISTER AND JEF COUNTY ADVISER-July 8, 1876 Potomac Orange, ~o. 16, will ~eetat their Hall, at Billmyer's Mill, on Monday evening next, the 10th instant at 7 o'clock. Every mem•ber is requested to be present . . THE VIRGINIA FREE ·PRESS~ 1?t...
...ined till about 1860. All wor-k, oil on canvas. Three portrai~ ow11e<l by A. S. Lucas, of Shepherdstown: EDWARD LUCAS, 1790-1858, the owner's great grandfather on maternal side; ROBERT ARMIS'l'EAD LUCAS, 1815-1883, paternal grandfatheI· of the owner; JOHN LUC11.S, said to have be...
...cretary-Henry T. McDonald, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary-Ella May Turner, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Treasurer~essie Trotter, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Qurator--Carrie B. Wilson, Charles Town, W. Va. 3 Directors-Sallie Lee Powell, Shepherdstown; S11sa.n Gregg Gibson, Charl...
...nty Offices Building Charles Towr1, West Virginia OOFIOEJRS Presiden,tr---A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice-President,-Wright Denny,..JCharles Towr1, W. Va. Recording Secretary-Henry T. MJcDonald, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary-Ella May rrilmer, Shepherdst...
...est Virginia ,,.. -....... ¥ -- - • -...,,__, OFFICERs President,......,A .. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va~ Vice-President-Wright Denny, Charles Town, W. Va. Record ng Secretary---iHenry T. MnDonald, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. orr sponding Secretary-Ella May Turner, Shepherdstow11...
...,1County Offices Building Charles Town, West Virginia OFFICfJRS President-A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice-President-Wright Denny, Charles Town, W. Va. Recording Secretary-Henry T. McDonald, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary-Ella May Turner, Shepherdstown, W...
...ecretary-Henry T. McDonald, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary-Ella May Turner Shepherdstown, W. Va. Treasurer-Anne S. (Mrs. Clarence) Hobart, Charles Town, W. Va. Curator-C,arrie B. Wilson. Charles Town, W. Va. 3 Directors-Sallie Lee Powell, Shepherdstown: Susan Gregg...
...-County Offices Building Cha1·les T own, West irginia OFFICERS Pr"esident-A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice-P1·esident-Thornton T. Perry, Jr., Charles Town, W. Va. Reco1·ding Sec1~etary-Henry T. McDonald, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Corresponding SecI·etaI·y-Ella May Turner, S...
...S P1· sid 11t-Thornton T. Per1·y, J1·., Charlestown W. Va. ice-P1·e ident-A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Recordi11g Se~1·etar 1-Hen1·y T. McDonald, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Co1·r po11ding Secretary-Ella May Turner, Shepherdstown, W. Va. T1· asurer-Anne S. (Mrs. Clarence) Hoba...
...ERS President-Thornton T. Perry, Jr., Charles Town, W. Va. Vice-President-A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Recording Secretary-Henry T. McDonald, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary-Ella May Turner, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Treasurer-Anne S. (Mrs. Clarence) Hobart, Ch...
...rous offer of Col. William A. Morgan and hold the fair in his grove about a mile south of Shepherdstown. Committees were appointed on Grounds, Buildings, Transportation, Invitation, Adver tising and Soliciting Exhibits, Finance, Music, and Amuse rnent. The first fair was held o...
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