Harley Kilgore

John Kenna died in Washington

Appalachian Power Company began

Daniel Willard became president of B&O

Mannington, Fairmont, Clarksburg, and Grafton baseball teams formed the Class D West Virginia League

Charleston entered professional baseball

Beckley population rose to 2,161

Bluefield's population exceeded 10,000

U.S. Supreme Court established boundary between Preston County, West Virginia and Garrett County, Maryland

Pearl Buck returned to the U.S. after living in China

Pine Run School was built

Annie G. Packette raised $50,000 to construct Charleston Opera House

Charleston Mail sold to Samuel Dixon

Men including John W. Davis published the Culpeper Exponent

U.S. Bureau of Mines created after the Fairmont disaster of 1907

West Virginia coke production peaked at 4,217,381 tons

Justus Collins opened Winding Gulf mine

Danske Dandridge wrote Historic Shepherdstown

Levi Dean began practicing architecture in Charleston

The first deer hunting season was established

West Virginia's approximate deer population was 1,000

Thurmond accounted for almost 20% of all revenue generated on C&O Railway

Isaac Morris sold Easton Roller Mill to William Ley

West Virginia schools had fallen behind national averages

West Virginia had only 12 fully accredited high schools

The Department of Education increased to five divisions

Golden era of glass production ended

Aretas Fleming pushed to establish the U.S. Bureau of Mines

A. B. Brooks compiled a report on West Virginia forests

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

Number of farms in West Virginia stood at 97,000

Glass factory employment totaled 7,500 workers

The Meadow River Lumber Company was organized in Rainelle

The C&O purchased the Greenbrier Resort and developed it into a major destination

Rimfire Hamrick opened a jewelry, watch repair, and gunsmith shop in Webster Springs

The High Gate mansion was built for James Edwin Watson

Census reported 5,939 Hungarians in West Virginia

Census showed 17 Irish families and 82 person occupying Irish Mountain

Reported 17,000 Italian immigrants in West Virginia

McDowell County reported the most Italian immigrants in West Virginia with 2,300

City of Ranson was established

Reported most of the Kelly Axe Company's grinders were natives of Poland or Russia

Sarah Ann Legg appealed her case for murder of Jay Legg and was acquitted of all charges

Lincoln County had a population of 20,491

Signs bearing "Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco, Treat yourself to the Best" began appearing

Akro Agate was founded in Ohio

Marlinton had a tannery, two banks, two newspapers, 20 stores, a hospital, opera house, fire department, school, water system, & electric power

Marlinton Opera House was built by J. C. Tilton

John Matheus graduated from Western Reserve University (Case Western Reserve) in Cleveland, Ohio

The original sawmill of the Meadow River Lumber Company was built

The McKendree and Welch hospitals opened affiliated nursing schools

Morgantown population rose to 9,150

Howard Sloan organized the first enduring work of the Church of the Nazarene in West Virginia

The New York Central gained control of the Toledo & Ohio Central

Niagara Movement failed to meet

The O. Ames company arrived in Parkersburg

37 of the state's 55 counties were completely dry or allowed the prohibition of the sale of liquor under local option laws.

The C&O and Virginian railroads had penetrated every section of Raleigh County

A factory making buttons from river mussel shell opened in St. Marys

Nathan Scott lost the Republican nomination

The Raine brothers established the Meadow River Lumber Company

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled that the Swan lands had been forfeited to the state because taxes had not been paid

Thurmond had a population of 315

The B&O railroad penetrated the Trough

Tucker County population peaked at 18,675

U.S. Coal & Coke built 12 individual company towns at Gary

The steamboat Virginia went aground on a falling Ohio River and ended up in a cornfield at Ravenswood

The Meyercord-Carter Company reorganized as the Vitrolite Company

The Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk Railroad was incorporated

T. Edward Hill joined the McDowell Times

Ohio Valley Glass became Paul Wissmach Glass Company

Akro Agate Company was relocated to Clarksburg

Mary Atkeson taught English for a year at the University of Missouri

Elkins and Wheeling claimed basketball supremacy

Izetta Brown moved to West Virginia as bride to William Gay Brown

Pearl Buck graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College

Sunday edition was added to Clarksburg Telegram

Golden Delicious apple was discovered on Mullens farm

Antoine (Tony) and Julien Gaujot earned Congressional Medals of Honor during the Philippine Insurrection and America's invasion of Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Phil Conley graduated from WVU

Artemus Cox moved to Charleston

Doddridge County's first roads were paved

Extension home economics agents were placed in certain counties to further efforts

Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act for federal funding to develop agricultural extension program

State prohibition began

The West Virginia Federation of Labor reported 152 local craft unions with 31,315

Ella Holroyd graduated with honors from the Cincinnati Conservatory

The Homer Laughlin Company made semi-vitreous and white granite dinner, hotel and toilet wares

Harley Kilgore taught school for a year

State's economic focus had shifted to southern West Virginia

The local Catholic population built a school in Weston

The West Virginia Library Association was organized

Duval High School was built in Griffithsville

Akro Agate moved to Clarksburg

The Marlinton Opera House was sold due to default on deeds of trust

Frank McEnteer was appointed to superintend the building of the multi-span concrete arch bridge in Clarksburg

Willow Glen, or McKinley's Palace, construction began

The Yost Law became effective

A hotel building on the hill above Minnehaha Springs was completed

Dwight Morrow joined the banking firm J. P. Morgan and Company

Leonard "Lynn" Davis was born

James H. Boone installed light bulbs in Organ Cave

Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company ceased logging Otter Creak

Charles Boldt started manufacturing glass in Huntington

The legislature established a minimum age of 10 for incarceration at Pruntytown

The Ohio Valley Refining Company began operating in St. Marys

There were 40 local offices elected from the Socialist Party

Weirton Steel employment was 5,348

A monument to the Confederacy was erected in Hinton

The USS Huntington was on the West Coast

The Vitrolite factory was fully completed

A nursing school was established at what is now Welch Community Hospital

The Jones brothers of Red Star Coal & Coke Company donated land to the Baptist State Convention

Wheeling Hospital grew to 225 beds

Charles Ambler's last year teaching history and political science at Randolph-Macon College

Hotel built by Harvey Ghiz in Logan

West Virginia Folklore Society became inactive

Louis Bennett Jr. graduated from Yale

First book of poetry, Green Fruit,was published by John Bishop

Florence Blanchfield enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps

Pearl Sydenstricker married John Lossing Buck

Louis Watson Chappell received his B.A. from Wake Forest

William Edwin Chilton completed his term as U.S. Senate and became publisher

U.S. government hired DuPont Company to build new nitrocellulose plant

89.4 million tons of coal produced in West Virginia

The Shenandoah (George Washington) National Forest was created

U.S. Supreme Court supported Alston Dayton's "yellow dog" contracts ruling

Legislature established the West Virginia State Colored Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Diamond Shoe and Garment Co. received full department store status

Natural gas peaked at 309 billion cubic feet

Marion County in the Making was published

Study of German in schools dropped due to the entrance of America in WWI

Henry Hatfield entered the army medical corps as Captain

West Virginia launched a series of highway improvements with creation of the State Road Commission

The State Road Bureau was replaced by the State Road Commission

The U.S. Supreme Court sustained the lower court ruling prohibiting UMWA from seeking to influence workers from breaking yellowdog contracts

The House of Delegates grew to 94 delegates

Itmann began mining the Pocahontas No. 3 coal seam in Wyoming County

Billy Moore was born in Parkersburg

Fanny Johnson and Vincent Costello moved back to Charleston

Fanny Johnson's story "The Strange Looking Man" was included in a best short stories collection

Mother Jones returned to West Virginia to hold meetings and seek union recognition in the Fairmont and Winding Gulf coalfield

Frank Keeney became president of UMWA District 17

The town of Nitro was established by the U.S. War Department for the manufacture of munitions for WWI

Fred Mooney became secretary-treasurer of UMWA District 17

Regents began to abolish high school courses in normal schools

The U.S. government acquired the majority of land on Otter Creek for Monongahela National Forest

The Owens Bottle Company opened a plant in the upper end of Kanawha City

William Nelson Page moved to Washington.

Pruntytown Correctional Center, near Grafton, offered eight years of education, providing a full grade-school education

Denmar Sanitarium for black tuberculosis patients was established in Pocahontas County.

The Division of Vital Statistics was established by the West Virginia Legislature.

Short lines, including the Coal & Coke Railway, became part of the B&O.

The Reymann Memorial Farm was donated to WVU as two separate farms

Rat Rodgers was named to the All-American teams

Samuel Craig Shaw became editor of the Moundsville Daily Echo

Capt. Thomas J. Reynolds built his first real showboat and named it America

Five companies merged to form the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation

The USS Huntington was equipped for early experiments in naval aviation

Commercial mining had started in Webster County

The Montgomery Preparatory School was renamed the West Virginia Trades School (now WVU Institute of Technology)

Lenna Yost became the president of the West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association

Mordecai Johnson became pastor of Charleston’s First Baptist Church

The Tax Limitation Amendment was passed by voters

Edgar B. Sims of Harrison County was elected state auditor

Richard E. Talbott was elected state treasurer

Rimfire Hamrick ran unsuccessfully for legislature as Republican

Homer Holt was elected state attorney general

John Kee was first elected to Congress

Herman Kump successfully ran for governor

Jennings Randolph ran for Congress again and defeated Bowman

Democrats took over West Virginia with support from active federal government

T. C. Townsend ran unsuccessfully for governor

Richard Talbott was elected state treasurer

Robert C. Byrd was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Voters approved a $3 million bond to build Cabell Huntington Hospital

Rush Holt was defeated in the election for governor

Elizabeth Kee was elected a full term into the House of Representatives

William Casey Marland was elected governor

Arch A. Moore Jr. was elected to the House of Delegates

After claiming the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, William Revercomb was defeated by incumbent Harley Kilgore

W. W. Trent was reelected state superintendent of schools