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• Methodists

  By the time West Virginia was established in 1863, the Methodist Church claimed the largest number of congregations in the new state. Challenged only by the "Baptists":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/344, Methodism had been successful in …

• Metropolitan Theatre

  … than $500,000 and was one of the state’s finest examples of neoclassical revival architecture, a scaled-down version of New York’s famous Metropolitan Opera House. Opening night featured a vaudeville program. The theater stopped featuring such acts in …

• M. Blane Michael

  … University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127 in 1965 and New York University School of Law in 1968. He worked at … . He served as assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, from 1971 to 1972. Michael returned to West Virginia …

• Louis Michel

  … was caught up in conflicting claims, and Indians warned against settling there. When North Carolina made the Swiss promoters a better offer, the plans were shifted southward. New Bern, North Carolina, was settled about 1710 but soon uprooted by Indians.

• Midwifery

  … more common and home births began to decline. By 1983, there were no known granny-midwives practicing in the state. However, a new movement of young lay-midwives began in the 1970s, providing for the few women who were choosing home birth at that time. …

• Otter Creek Wilderness Area

  … to 1914. The U.S. government acquired the majority of land in the Otter Creek area in 1917, for inclusion in the new Monongahela National Forest. Logging proceeded again from 1968 to 1972, when an effort began to have the area designated a wilderness area …

• Arnold Miller

  … by the president. During his presidency, Miller had the union’s constitution rewritten to allow members to approve or reject new contracts. In 1974, he negotiated the national coal contract with an improved health care plan. Despite early successes, …

• Pack Peddlers

  … coalfields and logging areas, where a growing work force created a new market. Peddlers carried all kinds of portable goods, from clothing … to see the big bundle opened up, for we seldom saw new things.’’ A Ritchie County man recalled that in the 1910s, …

• Thomas Burk Miller

  Justice Thomas Burk Miller (April 1, 1929-August 12, 2008) was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1950 and served in the U.S. Navy for three years during the Korean War. He later attended the West Virginia University …

• Paden City

  … town. It is situated on the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 on State Route 2, between New Martinsville and Sistersville, partly in "Tyler County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/808 and partly in " …

• C. F. Millspaugh

  … (June 20, 1854-September 15, 1923) was born in Ithaca, New York. He attended Cornell University and went on to receive a medical degree in 1881 from the New York Homeopathic Medical College. Millspaugh played a significant role in establishing …

• Mine Safety

  … key safety issues. In February 1907, a substantial revision of West Virginia’s mine safety laws was passed. This new law charged mine foremen with instructing inexperienced miners and conducting frequent mine examinations, but still was less stringent than …

• Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike

  … state government by a committee of Congress. The Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike was also notable for producing a group of new leaders in District 17 who would influence labor relations in southern West Virginia for several decades. Fueled by continuing …

• The Mine Wars

  … , and state police in the towns of Blackberry City, Alden, Sprigg, New Howard, and Rawl. On May 19, 1920, 11 Baldwin-Felts … ’s control of the region would not be challenged again until the New Deal of the 1930s. In 2015, the West Virginia Mine Wars …

• Painted Trees

  … as early as 1774, for the many painted trees on its banks. The Warriors Path ran alongside Paint Creek and led the New York "Iroquois":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/912 south to wage battle against the tribes of Virginia and North …

• Mineral County

  … County. Following the war, in 1866, the new county was created. West Virginia had become … times, usually only briefly. The village of New Creek, just south of Keyser, was … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1706 intersected the New Creek road (now U.S. 50 …

• Brad Paisley

  … . In 2000, the Academy of Country Music named Paisley ‘‘Top New Male Vocalist’’ and the Country Music Association gave him the … August 2023, sang at the dedication of Kanawha County's new Herbert Hoover High School--the former facilities were destroyed by …

• Minerals

  … the Warfield Anticline slightly upstream of the mouth of Campbells Creek, near Charleston. The anticline brings the sandstones of the New River Formation, which are known as the ‘‘salt sands’’ by drillers due to the presence of saltwater or brines, closer …

• Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company

  … Nicholas County, were moved to Bergoo, "Webster County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/949. This sawmill operated at the new site from 1928 to 1945 and produced 220 million board feet of lumber. Pardee & Curtin also operated nine deep …

• Parkersburg

  … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1703 in 1857, brought important land links to the Ohio River at Parkersburg. New development followed. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, 3,000 Wood Countians, …

• Parkersburg News and Sentinel

  … . It was 36 years before a paper of the same name, with different ownership, began publication in February 1897. The new _Parkersburg News_ was a morning paper. In 1915, Wheeling publisher "Herschel C. Ogden":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Miners for Democracy

  … /634 was imprisoned in the murder-for-hire scheme that left Yablonski, his wife, and daughter dead in their beds on New Year’s Eve, the assumption was widespread in the coalfields that union leaders were responsible for the killings. The organization of …

• Miners Health Plan

  … the union to provide medical services in the coalfields. The coal operators rejected the idea. But when negotiations began toward a new national contract in 1946, creation of a health and welfare fund for the miners was the union’s top priority. Operators …

• Miners Hospitals

  … of West Virginia in the late 19th century brought dangerous new occupations to the Mountain State. "Coal mining": … ;McKendree":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1651 in the New River Gorge, opened for patients in December 1901, while No. …

• Okey L. Patteson

  … limbs. Within four months, he was walking again and driving his own car. His determination to overcome obstacles found new outlets in real estate and politics. He ran for Fayette County Democratic committeeman and later for sheriff, winning every …