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...mic of 1918." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedi a. October 5, 2017. We b. 12 June 2020; Shepherdstown Register, October 3 a nd 10, 1918. 6 Meador. 7 Knox, Richa rd. "1918 Killer Flu Recons tructed;, National Public Radio, October 5, 2005. https://www.npr.org/te mplates/story/st...
...storians today), another newspaper existed which determined to take up the challenge. The Shepherdstown Reg ister assumed the risk and recorded influenzas toll on residents locally as well as those serving in the military. The Register never printed anything so daring as the opin...
...e. We have a glimpse of Lawrence B. in 1833 and his association with his young friends in Shepherdstown and Charlestown from a diary of Henry Bedinger 111, who was Lawrence's uncle, but two years younger than Lawrence. 12 Henry Bedinger 111, was living at Bedford in Shepherdstown...
...an's arm; offering scant protection. See James M. Engle, "General Darke ,s Burial Place;' Shepherdstown Register, March 3, 1910, p. 1. The presence of grazing buffalo in the Valley is attested to by many sources, e.g., Dandridge. The name of The Barrens continued to be applied to...
92 The Magazine of the called Falling Spring Branch (later Town Run in Shepherdstown) was to provide waterpower for the operation of mills. Shepherd built a grist mill and sawmill in short order and settlers streaming into Virginia across the nearby Wagon Road Ford heard the nois...
...000-current $10 ($13 PPD) Other JCHS publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 -$10 ($14 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, WV (Book) -$40 ($45 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of ...
...805-1879?): a silversmith and watchmaker, originally from Winchester, Va., Brown lived in Shepherdstown from 1829-1839 and had hi shop across the street from the Entler Hotel. Mark of M. S. Brown & Co. Shepherdstown. Photo courte y of Virginia Historical Society Museum, Richmond,...
...lockmaker and silversmith, born in the Marburg Region of Southeast Germany and settled in Shepherdstown about 1790. His residence and workshop were located in various spots around town including the southeast comer of Washington and Church Streets and the south side of German St....
...e Woltz, a prominent silversmith , and clock maker in Hagerstown, Maryland. John moved to Shepherdstown in 1811 and worked as a silversmith, goldsmith \Vatchmaker, clockmaker and jeweler at several locations in to\vn, including his home and shop which was located one door up from...
...00-current $10 ($13 PPD) Other JCHS publications (order same as abo ve): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 -$10 ($14 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, WV (Book) -$40 ($45 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of ...
...outfitting the Berkeley County volunteers with rifles which were made by the gunsmiths in Shepherdstown. Henry, years later wrote to the son of one of the volunteers, Samuel Finley. 2 ''In the near time your father obtained from the gunsmith a remarkable neat light rifle the stoc...
...l the scalps they brought in. Expedition to Kentucky In early 1779, George Michael was in Shepherdstown with his mother and his siblings. His brother, Daniel though his health had not fully recovered from ill treatment during incarceration by the British, re-enlisted and returned...
...wearingens. The group followed the Great Valley Road following the Shenandoah Valley from Shepherdstown to the present site of Roanoke. George Michael Bedinger National Portrait Gallery There, the group followed what is known today as the Wilderness Road which took them took them...
Jc f fer on ~ o u n t }' Hi tor i a 1 o c i et}' 37 George Michael returned to Shepherdstown in the fall of 1779. When he arrived in Shepherdstown, Henry was there having been paroled by the British in the spring of 1779. It was usual for the British to parole American officers o...
...ers of war held at Winchester, Virginia. 32 , 33 George Michael returned from Kentucky to Shepherdstown in the fall of 1779. With Henry now released from imprisonment by the British, Henry, George Michael and their mother were concerned about the welfare of Daniel with the Virgin...
...Brother Daniel and Many Friends." Henry, in the spring of 1783, raised another company at Shepherdstown before the treaty that officially ended the war and was near marching them off from Shepherdstown, when he received orders calling off the operation. 52 British Evacuate Savann...
...hael had enlisted for several terms of limited duration because he felt the need to be in Shepherdstown at times to provide aid for his mother and siblings and to be there to aid his brother Daniel when he was recovering from British imprisonment. Reunion at Stephenson's Spring Y...
... his mother to let him join them. But he was told he was still too young and must stay in Shepherdstown and help the family. The story of his running away to join Henry and his militia in New Jersey, the story of the three brothers and their service during the Revolutionary War i...
...e Bedinger family of Norfolk. Daniel Bedinger left his post as Navy Agent and returned to Shepherdstown. Solomon Bedinger died a bachelor in 1808 at Norfolk, presumably of a fever, at the early age of thirty-seven. Jacob Morgan having been well trained by his uncles, Solomon and ...
84 The Magazine of the Daniel Arnett of the 5 th USCT is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. (Rose Hill Cemetery is much more noted as being the burial ground for many Confederate soldiers.) Daniel Arnett Grave Rose Hill Cemetery Shepherdstown, West Virg...
28 The Magazine of the George Shaner: George was a private from Shepherdstown who erved in the Virginia Line. In 1835 he was still living in Shepherdstown and wa drawing a pension. William Hulse: William enlisted in Captain Stephenson's company in 1775. After the Revolution, he m...
...unting hirt. 40 Afterwards, regarding the attire of Stephenson men Dandridge 3 7 Historic Shepherdstown. Page 79. 38 Henry Bedinger could have been the source of Boteler 's account. Bedinger lived in Berkely County. He died in 1843 at Altona, the home of his daughter Elizabe th a...
...einforce the Continental Army. What i most important is that all of tho e who 82 Historic Shepherdstown. Page 101. 83 M)' Ride to the Barbecue. Page 66. 84 Historic Shepherdstown. Page 102.
...by the Pennsylvania Ger,nan, Col. Shepherd (Scha.efer). '' Again, there is no an w-er. Jn Shepherdstown tOOa,y the descendants of only one of these forefathers of th.e village can .prove by docu·m 1 enltairy evidence where thei-r ancestor cam•e fr-0·m. Some ytears ago I saw and t...
...o town in West Vrginia tha1: has more of in·terest attachin•g ·to its local hist,ory than Shepherdstown. Easily the o·ld· est town in the Staie-it was settled afbout 1732, maybe as early as 1712, and incorporated in 1762-there have ·been many inter.esting and ·curious happenings ...
...hed their steel bands across the country, but a·ll transportation was by road or ·rive·r. Shepherdstown was on the highwta·y from Kentucky and Ten nessee and other southern sections to Battimor,e and Philadel phia·. The Pack Horse Ford ~a:s th-e ·best c-rossing pl·ac·e on th~e ...
...rfor,d as executors. It is also re·porrted that Hugh Stephenson had some pro'p erty near Shepherdstown and had gone into partnership be,fore the Revolution with David Shepherd in esta1blis.hing a rival Ferry where Van Swearingen Ferry had prior possess1on. You will note that the...
...at r untr an ~. tern irginia and the Ohio Valley. 11 fir tlen1ent in J ffer on Count a at Shepherdstown i11 172 7 • and lit le la er Romne was settled. The line f tra 1 from the outh 18ran h Ile ~ as b way of Win he ter ~ tl1 p·rincipal mark ts of th da , at B· ltimore and A I a...
...iona·ble pla 1ce in tow 11. One of the largest and best known of the ·colonial taverns in Shepherdstown was the ''Western,'' on Germ1 an or Mair. Street. It was the larg·e, rectangular weather-·b 1oarded building that was known as ''The Western'' or Entler's Tavern in Rev olutio...
...n 1 787. As a school 1boy in Ohio county I knew, because the history i book said so, that Shepherdstown was set tled in 1727, but _now, after twenty-five years in Shepherds to\vn, J C3n't tell _vou whether i·t was in 171·9, '26, '27, '30, '32 r ' 4, thotJ<Yh there is considera ...
...ciety, had his thesis .pub lished in 1900, we have had it in Danske Dandridge's Historic Shepherdstown, and in sev·eral West Virginia histories. J·ohn Moray of Be,rkeley Springs took it U·P in 1908 and Roy Bird ' Cook wrote the story for the third volume of the West Virginia Rev...
... Lo·dge, Be·rryville; 19 from Equality Lodg·e, Martins!burg·; 16 fro·m Mt Ne'b-0 L·od·ge, Shepherdstown; 3 .-from Front Royal Lodge, Front R•oyal; _13 from Livingston Lodge, Charles Town; 22 from Charity Lodge, H·a·rpers Fer•ry; 14 from Hiram L·od.ge, Winchester; Bro. An thony K...
...am Harris, J. M. Greenwood and Cato M. Entler. On A·pril 21, 1845, the common ·council of Shepherdstown was petitioned lby th•e lodge for. permission to ere-ct a lodge hall in C'onnection with the m:arket house located in the oenter of King Street at its intersection with Ge11n·a...
...ic Order, Sons of America in Jefferson Cot1n ty :- No. 7 at Shenandoah Junction. No. 8 at Shepherdstown . • No. 9 at Harpers Ferry No. 10 at Charles Town .. No. 11 at 'Summit Point. N·o. 3 o at Kearneysville. The orbjects of this 1order as set forth are: 1. ·To incul!cate pure Am...
36 Magazine of the and rest, footsore, they .at length reached Shepherdstown. The town was all lagog. Detachments were coming in f ram other poi11 ts. The day following the arrival of the {Middleway Blues was given over to ·patriotic ceremonies. Orators de~1icted the ca reer of ...
...unty Historical Society 43 THE V RGINIA & MARYLAND BRI10G 1E COMP ANY AND ITS ,BRJ,DGE AT SHEPHERDSTOWN (Pa,per read 'before t1he Society lby Taxter Welshans, February 3, 1933. The last ,paraigra,ph has fbeen added to 'brlng it up to date.) The Virginia & Maryland Bridge ·Co.mpan...
... one-half in-ch iron tubing. This iron bridge was swept out by the highest flood known in Shepherdstown on March 18, 1936. At the present time traffic ·crosses the Poto,mac on a ferry p·rivately operated a·bout forty feet 'below the site o,f the ol·d ·bridge. ------0-----FiROM 11...
...fice. There answered the -eall of the Protestant Lutheran Con re ation of Martinsburg and Shepherdstown to come to e Virginia the regularly and legally appointed teac 1her, Rev. Johan11 )'oung a native of Gorlitz, in upper Saxony in Europe. In he year of t 789, September 14, he a...
...this plan to ac cept a call to the Winchester •church. Dr. Hoge, pastor of the church in Shepherdstown, then served the congregation at Charles Town ·for seven years, and after his resignation there w:as n,o regular pastor until Rev. JtIJm.es Matthews 1beca,me pastor of the chur...
...and John Davenport.'' August 17, 1802-''On Tuesday we C4me through heat and over hills to Shepherdstown, Virgini: a. I found Thomas Boydstone and his wife on the roa,d to glory. After thirty years o·ocasional preaching, we have a small socie-ty, and by the pur chase of an old ac...
...njoy today an be traced l1ack to the efforts of this great organization. ------0------THE SHEPHERDSTOWN REGISl 1 ER Fe 8, 1878 GRANGER'S DEPARTMENT COUNTY COUNCIL Council met at Duffields, on Saturday last, with unusual large attendance. It was decided to continue the CoWlcil ins...
...stian in early life and at eigh·teen united on profession of his faith in Christ with the Shepherdstown· Presbyterian Church of which his father had long been an honored elder. He also soon developed into a dilligent student and besides assisting the younger pupils in their studi...
...r witness. When the monument to the Southern soldiers lru·ried i.n El 1mwood Cemetery, at Shepherdstown, was erected in 1870, he wrote the patriotic inscriptions that adorn it. Each year on Memorial Day his tall form in gray was seen with the sur viving veterans and his sonor.ou...
...he October 1938 issue of the West Virginia Review there is a picture of an old academy in Shepherdstown, a brick building with two chimneys. 1 796. Timothy Monohan. ''August 3, 1798. Acadama School House, Dr. To plastering for Monohan L 11-20. To work do11e by Sam tending plaster...
...nstitution.'' (Danske Dandridge, H·istor:. ic Shepherdsto"' n, from the Amterican Eagle, Shepherdstown, 1 816.) 1820 Deed, Shepherd's Town Academy. ''Deed of g~ft. Abrah_a·m Shepherd and Trustees of the Sh,epherd's Town Acaden1y to witt-John Matthe\VS (Pres.), Lewis Mayer, Van ....
...( From Council Minutes in Musser, History of .Sl1epherdstown.) 1854. Fem•ale Semin·ary. ''Shepherdstown FEMALE SEMINARY. l'eachers Rev. J. L. Frary, Prin·cipal, Teacher of the Latin and Greek Lang-uag·es; Miss L. B. Daven port, Assistant, a11d Teacher of the French, Italian and ...
...ter, hepherdsto,v· n, April 19, 1923.) Dr. Charles Ghiselin recalls tl1at, hen he came to Shepherdstown as pastor of the Presb ·terian Church in the fall of 1883, Mr. Pierce then lived at Gray Lodge on German Street and conducted a school. Al-
... of ''peaceable coercioh. '' The Embargo Act-in operation over a year-was so unpopular in Shepherdstown and vicinity that o·n Fe·bruary 23, 1809, a num 1ber of citizens met in protest. Colonel Josep·h Swearingen w' as called to the chair and Captain A 1braham· Shepherd was made s...
...le1·, John Taylor Da,vid Taylor James Whaley, James Wilson, Mathew Young, Daniel 12. 'Ibe Shepherdstown Register, December 7, 1812.
...en of talent went abroad to study art and thus Charles Town and Rippon and Midd·teway and Shepherdstown and Harper's Ferry ca·me to have their local artists who als9 worked and gained recognition in metro politan centers of art and whose portraits are now among the county's trea...
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