Writer and publisher. Co-founder of the New American Library. Author of "Spangled Banner - The Story of Francis Scott Key", first published 1935, still in print.
Attended Blue Ridge College, a Church of the Brethren College in New Windsor, Maryland, which closed in 1930; the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago.
Son of Church of the Brethren Elder Samuel Royer Weybright and Lillie Viola (Fogle) Weybright.
Husband of Hildegarde Fillmore and Helen Macdonald.
Twin brother of Victoria Viola Weybright, who married Norville Eugene Shoemaker
Buried in Keysvillle Union Cemetery not too from from Terra Rubra, the ancestral estate of Francis Scott Key.
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Victor Weybright of Keysville and New York City last Friday announced gifts totaling $150,000 to three Carroll County organizations: the Carroll County Farm Museum, the Historical Society of Carroll County and the Keysville Union Cemetery at Keysville.
Mr. Weybright, 69, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Weybright of Detour and Keysville, moved more than 20 years ago from the Hollow Rock Farm, along the Monocacy River, where he was born, to New York City to become co-founder and chairman of the board and editor-in-chief of the New American Library World Literature Corp.
As a publisher, Mr. Weybright has since 1946 distinguished himself as a leader and a positive force in directing the paperback revolution and the dispersal of quality books in inexpensive editions.
Published in the Carroll County Record, Nov. 30, 1972.
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Victor Weybright (1903-1978) was a writer and publisher who played an important role in the founding of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, which later became the Gypsy Lore Society.
The Victor Weybright Archives of Gypsy Studies are named for him.
Attended Blue Ridge College, a Church of the Brethren College in New Windsor, Maryland, which closed in 1930; the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago.
Son of Church of the Brethren Elder Samuel Royer Weybright and Lillie Viola (Fogle) Weybright.
Husband of Hildegarde Fillmore and Helen Macdonald.
Twin brother of Victoria Viola Weybright, who married Norville Eugene Shoemaker
Buried in Keysvillle Union Cemetery not too from from Terra Rubra, the ancestral estate of Francis Scott Key.
~~~
Victor Weybright of Keysville and New York City last Friday announced gifts totaling $150,000 to three Carroll County organizations: the Carroll County Farm Museum, the Historical Society of Carroll County and the Keysville Union Cemetery at Keysville.
Mr. Weybright, 69, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Weybright of Detour and Keysville, moved more than 20 years ago from the Hollow Rock Farm, along the Monocacy River, where he was born, to New York City to become co-founder and chairman of the board and editor-in-chief of the New American Library World Literature Corp.
As a publisher, Mr. Weybright has since 1946 distinguished himself as a leader and a positive force in directing the paperback revolution and the dispersal of quality books in inexpensive editions.
Published in the Carroll County Record, Nov. 30, 1972.
~~~
Victor Weybright (1903-1978) was a writer and publisher who played an important role in the founding of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, which later became the Gypsy Lore Society.
The Victor Weybright Archives of Gypsy Studies are named for him.
Writer and publisher. Co-founder of the New American Library. Author of "Spangled Banner - The Story of Francis Scott Key", first published 1935, still in print.
Attended Blue Ridge College, a Church of the Brethren College in New Windsor, Maryland, which closed in 1930; the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago.
Son of Church of the Brethren Elder Samuel Royer Weybright and Lillie Viola (Fogle) Weybright.
Husband of Hildegarde Fillmore and Helen Macdonald.
Twin brother of Victoria Viola Weybright, who married Norville Eugene Shoemaker
Buried in Keysvillle Union Cemetery not too from from Terra Rubra, the ancestral estate of Francis Scott Key.
~~~
Victor Weybright of Keysville and New York City last Friday announced gifts totaling $150,000 to three Carroll County organizations: the Carroll County Farm Museum, the Historical Society of Carroll County and the Keysville Union Cemetery at Keysville.
Mr. Weybright, 69, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Weybright of Detour and Keysville, moved more than 20 years ago from the Hollow Rock Farm, along the Monocacy River, where he was born, to New York City to become co-founder and chairman of the board and editor-in-chief of the New American Library World Literature Corp.
As a publisher, Mr. Weybright has since 1946 distinguished himself as a leader and a positive force in directing the paperback revolution and the dispersal of quality books in inexpensive editions.
Published in the Carroll County Record, Nov. 30, 1972.
~~~
Victor Weybright (1903-1978) was a writer and publisher who played an important role in the founding of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, which later became the Gypsy Lore Society.
The Victor Weybright Archives of Gypsy Studies are named for him.
Attended Blue Ridge College, a Church of the Brethren College in New Windsor, Maryland, which closed in 1930; the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago.
Son of Church of the Brethren Elder Samuel Royer Weybright and Lillie Viola (Fogle) Weybright.
Husband of Hildegarde Fillmore and Helen Macdonald.
Twin brother of Victoria Viola Weybright, who married Norville Eugene Shoemaker
Buried in Keysvillle Union Cemetery not too from from Terra Rubra, the ancestral estate of Francis Scott Key.
~~~
Victor Weybright of Keysville and New York City last Friday announced gifts totaling $150,000 to three Carroll County organizations: the Carroll County Farm Museum, the Historical Society of Carroll County and the Keysville Union Cemetery at Keysville.
Mr. Weybright, 69, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Weybright of Detour and Keysville, moved more than 20 years ago from the Hollow Rock Farm, along the Monocacy River, where he was born, to New York City to become co-founder and chairman of the board and editor-in-chief of the New American Library World Literature Corp.
As a publisher, Mr. Weybright has since 1946 distinguished himself as a leader and a positive force in directing the paperback revolution and the dispersal of quality books in inexpensive editions.
Published in the Carroll County Record, Nov. 30, 1972.
~~~
Victor Weybright (1903-1978) was a writer and publisher who played an important role in the founding of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, which later became the Gypsy Lore Society.
The Victor Weybright Archives of Gypsy Studies are named for him.
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