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Harold B. Singleton
Harold Brown Singleton (April 19, 1906 – January 17, 1994) was an American lawyer, fourteen-year member of the Virginia House of Delegates and for years judge in Lynchburg and Bedford and Amherst Counties. Early and family life Harold Singleton was born to Harry Middleton Singleton (1871 - 1944) and his wife, schoolteacher Mary Leighton Nance (1873 - 1934) at his grandparents' home in Boonsboro, Bedford County, Virginia (later annexed to Lynchburg) on April 19, 1906. He attended the Bedford County Schools, then E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg (graduating in 1925 after helping charter the local branch of the National Honor Society). He then studied at Lynchburg College and graduated with an A.B. degree. He married Catherine Cecilia Lacy (1915 - 1967). He was active in his church (initially Lynchburg Baptist then Ascension Episcopal Church after the family moved to Madison Heights) and college alumni association, as well as the Lynchburg Lions, Elks, Odd Fellows and the Ta ...
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Amherst County, Virginia
Amherst County is a county, located in the Piedmont region and near the center of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The county is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, and its county seat is also named Amherst. Amherst County was created in 1761 out of Albemarle County, and it was named in honor of Lord Jeffery Amherst, the so-called "Conqueror of Canada". In 1807 as population increased, the county was reduced in size in order to form Nelson County. Tobacco was the major cash crop of the county during its early years. The labor-intensive crop was worked and processed by enslaved Africans and African Americans before the American Civil War. As of the 2020 census, the population of the county was 31,307. History Beginning thousands of years in the past, Native Americans were the first humans to populate the area. They hunted and fished mainly along the countless rivers and streams in the county. With the establishment of the Virginia C ...
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Amherst, Virginia
Amherst (formerly Dearborn) is a town in Amherst County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,231 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Amherst County. Amherst is part of the Lynchburg metropolitan area. History Amherst was founded in 1807. Originally known as "The Oaks" and "Seven Oaks", it began as a stagecoach station on the Charlottesville to Lynchburg road. Once Nelson County was separated from Amherst County in 1807, the community became the seat of Amherst County. It was at this time that the village decided to rename itself in honor of French and Indian War hero Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst. Major-General Amherst had been the hero of the Battle of Ticonderoga and later served as the governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1763 to 1768. In 1847, local planter William Waller, aged 58, walked from Amherst to Louisiana with about 20 slaves for sale. His letters home during the trip, held by the Virginia Historical Society, provide rare documenta ...
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People From Amherst, Virginia
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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