| − | Harry Flood Byrd was born on June 10, 1887 to Richard Evelyn Byrd and Eleanor Bolling Flood in Martinsburg, [[West Virginia]]. Reared in Winchester along with his brothers, Byrd's lifelong prominence would root to the Southern culture he learned there. Quitting school at the age of fifteen, he managed to take over the family newspaper that had been failing, and transformed it into an enterprise that was profitable. | + | Harry Flood Byrd was born on June 10, 1887 to Richard Evelyn Byrd and Eleanor Bolling Flood in Martinsburg, [[West Virginia]]. Reared in Winchester along with his brothers, Byrd's lifelong prominence would root to the Southern culture he was raised with there. Quitting school at the age of fifteen, he managed to take over the family newspaper that had been failing, and transformed it into an enterprise that was profitable. |