The Moorefield Examiner (Moorefield, W. Va.)

• 1907–1927
• Newspaper

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1,034 issues from 1907 to 1927, published in Moorefield, West Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.

The Weekly Examiner was published in Moorefield, the county seat of Hardy County, West Virginia beginning in mid-1875. A paper of the same title, Weekly Examiner, published by the same man, Samuel D. Gordon, had begun publication the year before in Petersburg, the seat of Grant County. Yet Gordon had already been in the newspaper business in Moorefield, working at both the Moorefield Advertiser and the Hardy County Courier and Advertiser. And although the Weekly Examiner was Democratic in political orientation, according to the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer on February 21, 1876, it nevertheless “[did] not … get along lovingly together” with the Moorefield Advertiser which was the town’s other Democratic paper. At four pages, the Weekly Examiner was published weekly, on Saturdays.

In 1880, the Weekly Examiner was rechristened the Moorefield Examiner, and helmed by Confederate veteran Delius O. Maupin and David Parsons, on-again, off-again colleagues of Gordon’s. Maupin previously worked at the Virginia Advertiser and the Hardy Whig, both published in Moorefield before West Virginia’s statehood. Though keeping the Moorefield Examiner a Democratic Party-affiliated paper during the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Maupin previously endorsed John Bell, the Constitutional Union Party candidate for President, in the 1860 election, following the Whig Party’s collapse.

Adopting the West Virginia state motto, Montani Semper Liberi (“Mountaineers are always free”) as its…

Genres

News

Published in

Moorefield, West Virginia, United States

Language

English

Collection

Chronicling America

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