Ku Klux Klan

Peter Cline Buffington was elected Huntington's first mayor

Edward Jefferson Willis founded the Winchester Female Institute in Winchester

B&O lines reached Columbus, Lake Erie and Pittsburgh

Commencement Hall added as a wing to Old Main at Bethany

Democrats gained control of West Virginia's government

Jefferson County seat moved back to Charles Town after being in Shepherdstown

The Jefferson County seat moved back to Charles Town after temporarily being relocated to Shepherdstown

Waitman Willey's service in the U.S. Senate ended

Voters approved both a constitutional amendment eliminating the loyalty requirement for voting and a call for a new constitutional convention

Joseph Diss Debar ended his work of recruiting labor and landowners from abroad

Hyre D. Clark of Buckhannon was the first graduate of Fairmont State

John P. Hale became mayor of Charleston

Morris Harvey married Rosaltha Dickinson

The Independent was moved from Winfield to Huntington by O.G. Chase

Frank Hereford began the first of three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives

Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad purchased the land on which Hinton was built

The Flick Amendment was passed which ended political restriction on ex-Confederates in West Virginia

Jedediah Hotchkiss explored the extended Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad

Huntington was founded by Collis P. Huntington

John J. Allen died

James Madison Jackson died

John Jay Jackson Sr. served as a member of the commission to ascertain West Virginia's share of the Virginia debt

The Great Fire in Chicago burned up Mother Jones' dressmaking business and her possessions

Daniel Lamb unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate

The Flick Amendment was passed restoring voting rights for ex-Confederates

Mannington was chartered as a town by the legislature

The federal government conducted a survey of the river

Elementary school and junior high schools numbered 453 for African-American students and teachers

Mary Atkeson wrote The Woman on the Farm

The number of banks in West Virginia peaked at 225 state banks and 125 national banks

Walter Barnes wrote The Children's Poets

The Evening Post, Beckley's first daily newspaper, was established

UMWA President Keeney and Secretary Treasurer Mooney were forced to retire

Izetta Brown seconded Davis again for nomination

Izetta Brown again defeated for U.S. Senate, this time by William Edwin Chilton

Chauncey H. Browning graduated from WVU

John W. Davis Democratic candidate for president

Matthew Wesley Clair Sr. returned to Washington for a visit

Association changed its name to West Virginia Council of Churches and Christian Education

Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis failed to carry home state West Virginia

Huntington's Frederick Douglass Junior and Senior High School was built

Patrick Gainer recorded folk songs and lore of West Virginia's people

Construction of the Governor's Mansion began

Major flood brought devastation

Record floods hit Hardy County

Another school was built in Harrisville

The Concord College He-Man Club began as picnic to honor retiring college president Christopher Columbus Rossey

The hemlock wooly adelgid was first reported in the Western United States

Colonel Joseph Long bought a corner lot in Huntington to erect a building for his paper, the Herald-Dispatch

The UMWA had lost half of its members in West Virginia and was nearly bankrupt

The Huntington Post-Herald became a daily newspaper

Homer Holt married Isabel Wood of Charlottesville, Virginia

Rush Holt graduated from Salem College

Cheat Lake construction began, created primarily for the production of electricity

Carmine Pelligrino of Rosemont held record of mining 66 tons of coal in 24 hours

The Jackson's Mill property was donated to the state of West Virginia

Ray Wetzel was born in Parkersburg

Mother Jones called on Governor Morgan for pardons for miners imprisoned after the Logan March

The Ku Klux Klan marched through Hinton

Howard B. Lee left office as Mercer County prosecuting attorney

Carnegie library was established in Hinton

Howard M. Gore became assistant secretary of agriculture

Mountain lions were declared extinct

Walter Martens designed the Science and Liberal Arts halls of Davis & Elkins College

Clarence Cameron White was named director of music at West Virginia State College

The Concrete Steel Bridge Company of Clarksburg had 52 separate construction teams in the field

The Metropolitan Theater in downtown Morgantown opened

Fred Mooney left as secretary-treasurer of UMWA District 17

The first Mountaineer Field opened

The Clarke-McNary law was passed by Congress authorizing the purchase of forested, cut-over, or denuded lands for the production of timber in addition to the flow regulation of navigable streams

Records of chicken production began.

The West Virginia Public Health Association was organized.

Jennings Randolph graduated from Salem College.

Walter Reuther began work as apprentice tool and die maker at Wheeling Steel

Leonard Riggleman accepted a pastorate in Milton

William Ritter made headline for sharing $3 million in company stock with his employees

Money from the John B. Crowley estate paid for a new addition to St. Francis Hospital

A second wing was added to St. Joseph's Hospital

The state built a fire tower in Seneca State Forest

A merger agreement between Sheltering Arms Hospital and Charleston General Hospital fell through

Ada "Bricktop" Smith performed in Paris

West Virginia Wesleyan defeated Navy, Syracuse, Kentucky in football

The West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference began

Seneca State Forest became the first state forest in West Virginia

P. D. Strausbaugh and colleagues collected, mounted and filed the nucleus of a new plant collection for WVU

The Blackwater Boom & Lumber Company closed

All lumber operations in Tucker County closed due to depletion of original forest

Membership in the United Brethren Parkersburg Conference was 10,337

Frank Keeney and Fred Mooney resigned from the UMWA

Ward Engineering built the Greenbrier, a sternweel towboat