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Conditions Governing Access

Due to fragility, access to the original requires the permission of a curator.

Existence and Location of Copies

This material was digitally reformatted; The South Branch Intelligencer is now available online as part of the Chronicling America project.

Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], James Warren Pattie, Collector, "South Branch Intelligencer" Newspaper, A&M 4380, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

The volume was compiled by William Henry Foote (1794-1869), a prominent Presbyterian minister and historian (Yale 1916, Princeton 1819) who lived for many years in Romney and is buried in its Indian Mound Cemetery. It was subsequently owned by Champe Warren   Pattie (1838-1911), who in 1869 married Nancy Harper, daughter of William Harper (publisher). How the volume passed from Foote to Pattie is unknown, although Foote officiated Pattie's marriage to Nancy Harper on October 20, 1869 (only 33 days before Foote's death) and perhaps the bound volume was a wedding gift. Champe Warren   Pattie served in Virginia's 25th Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., during the Civil War. He continued to reside in West Virginia after the war until moving to Dyersville, Iowa in 1875.

The volume descended in the Pattie family to Champe's grandson, James Warren   Pattie, who graduated from University of Iowa, and after serving in the Navy during WWII, had a long and distinguished career as an attorney in Marshalltown, Iowa. James Warren   Pattie's descendants donated the volume to the West Virginia and Regional History Center in 2018 so that it can be shared with those studying the early and mid-19th century history of (West) Virginia.

Scope and Contents

One bound volume consisting of approximately 150 issues of the the "South Branch Intelligencer" published in Romney, (West) Virginia, between June 1834 and May 1837. The "South Branch Intelligencer" was founded by William Harper in 1830 and continues today as the "Hampshire Review and the South Branch Intelligencer".

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Hampshire County   (W. Va.) -- History
• Newspapers -- West Virginia -- Hampshire County  
• Romney (W. Va.)