William Lyne Wilson

Only 490,000 tons of coal were produced in West Virginia

Dr. James Dye was born in Chloe

Delta Tau Delta revived its Bethany Chapter

Marmaduke Dent enrolled in classes at WVU

Sisters established a benevolent school for poor children in Parkersburg

Joseph Diss Debar involved West Virginia in the Paris Exposition

Easton Roller Mill began operation

Stephen Elkins served as New Mexico's attorney general

Palatine was incorporated

Work on Grafton National Cemetery began

Grantsville was named for Ulysses S. Grant

Hamlin was chosen as county seat of Lincoln County

Thomas Harris served in the House of Delegates

The Clarksburg Independent School District was established

Mother Jones's husband, George, and their four children died in the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis

George Latham became U.S. Consul to Australia

Joseph Lightburn became a Baptist preacher

The Little Kanawha Navigation Company let contracts for the first four locks and dams

The initial railroad map of West Virginia was published by the B&O Railroad

Henry Hyannis purchased the old Nadenbousch distillery in Martinsburg

John McCausland returned to Mason County after fleeing the country at the end of the Civil War

Dr. James Edmund Reeves and 32 colleagues established the West Virginia State Medical Association, orginally the Medical Society of West Virginia

The West Virginia Penitentiary opened

A monument commemorating the Confederate dead was erected at Romney Indian Mound Cemetery

Trustees of West Liberty sold the school to the state

I. C. White became one of the first 6 students to enter the Agricultural College of West Virginia (WVU)

West Virginia legislature authorized the establishment of normal schools to train teachers

Uncle Dyke Garrett married Sallie "Aunt Sallie" Smith

Martinsville was officially renamed New Martinsville

McElhenney died as pastor of the Old Stone Presbyterian Church of Lewisburg.

Joseph McMurran became principal of Shepherd College

The French Creek Academy was established

Alexander Wade became the principle of Morgantown schools

Charles Ward arrived in Charleston from England

Booker T. Washington enrolled at Hampton Institute in Hampton

Lewis William Washington died

The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway was incorporated

First women served on faculty at Bethany College

Norfolk & Western Railway located its Pocahontas Division headquarters in Bluefield

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway line constructed from Richmond to Tidewater at Newport News

J. R. Clifford founded, edited, and published the Pioneer Press

Coal River locks and dams abandoned

West Virginia adopted a minimum salary law for teachers

M. Lizzie Dickey, one of the first women to hold a high post in education, left as acting principal at what is now known as Fairmont State University

Law was passed prohibiting the hunting, chasing or wounding of deer between January 15 and September 1

The Old German Baptist Brethren sect was founded

The Hatfield and McCoy Feud began

Milton Humphreys was elected president of the American Philological Association

Welded-steel pipe was first introduced to Wheeling

Jacob Jackson called the legislature into special session to re-codify the state's laws

John Quincy Dickinson became president of Kanawha Valley Bank after William Dickinson's death

James Miller became superintendent of Summers County School

James Miller married Jane Tompkins Miller

The Smithsonian Institution established the Division of Mound Studies

The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly was founded in Aetnaville, Ohio

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad decided to extend down the Ohio from Wheeling to Parkersburg.

J.W.M Appleton revived the Salt Sulphur Springs resort

Henry Schmulbach purchased the Nail City Brewery

Telephone switchboards were installed in Parkersburg

The West Virginia Classical and Normal Academy was established in Upshur County

Wayne was incorporated as Fairview

Robert A. Spencer acquired the paper and renamed in the Raleigh Register.

Bluefield had two newspapers, the Bluefield Telegraph and the Daily Journal

The Journal ceased daily publication

F.R. Swann began published Charleston Evening Mail

Clarence Wayland Watson founded the Briar Hill Coal Company

Justus Collins opened Collins Colliery and the Greenbrier Coal & Coke

William Conley earned a law degree from WVU

John Dickinson moved to Charleston from Malden

Samuel Dixon and partner organized the MacDonald mine

The first Douglass High School graduated its first high school class

Legislature provided for two levels of teacher certificates

Aretas Fleming returned to practicing law

Henry Harrison Hunter won blue ribbon at World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago for quality of sand he mined and processed

Graceland was completed

The Great Bend Tunnel was lined with brick arching

Joseph Harvey Long arrived in Huntington to buy the Herald

John Jeremiah Jacob died and was buried in Indian Mound Cemetery

Chicago World's Fair has a West Virginia state exhibit

John Joseph Kain left the Diocese of Wheeling to become Archbishop of St. Louis

John Q. Dickinson moved Kanawha Valley Bank into a substantial new building

Virgil Lewis was awarded an M.A. in history from WVU

The N&W Railroad built its main line along the Big Sandy River

Joseph Long moved to Huntington to buy the Herald

Daniel Lucas left the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Uncle Jack McElwain won a fiddle contest at the Chicago World's Fair

Bill McKell built his home at Glen Jean

Johnson Camden McKinley moved to Wheeling

C. F. Millspaugh left WVU to become curator of botany at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

High-quality semibitumious coal from Davis' Big Vein was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair

Sistersville became the nation's premier oil-field boom town

Henry Schmulbach opened his Wheeling inclined railway to riders

William Edwin Chilton became secretary of sate

Pittsburgh's William Flaccus and Son bought a tannery along the Buckhannon River

Telephone switchboards were installed at Bluefield

The city of Parsons was incorporated

Charles Ward's boilers were showcased at the Chicago World's Fair

Ward Engineering Works built the Mascot for the U.S. Engineering Corp

Clarence W. Watson joined his father and brothers in the mining enterprises

Chitwood Hall was completed at WVU

The earliest Whipple Company Store was constructed in Glen Jean for Collins Colliery Company

The Woodson family moved to Huntington

The Bluefield DailyJournal closed

Land purchased for $24,757 for Cabell County Courthouse

Huntington established Chamber of Commerce

Reuben Gold Thwaites edition of Chronicles of Border Warfare was published, which provides corrections to some errors of fact or interpretation

Clay was incorporated

$20,000 appropriated for new academic building at what is now known as Concord University

John William Davis (originally from Clarksburg) graduated from law school at Washington and Lee

Bethany Chapter of Delta Tau Delta ceased activity

Distinct historic courthouse was built in Fayetteville

Jack Glasscock returned to Wheeling to manage and play for Wheeling Base Ball Club

Harrisville, the county seat of Ritchie County, was named in honor of Thomas Harris

The Montgomery Preparatory School (West Virginia University Institute of Technology) was founded

Lewis County's first high school was established

Joseph Long sold the Herald

West Virginia passed a law preventing railroad from engaging in the business of buying and selling coal

A formal community of Orthodox Christians was founded in Bluefield

Michael Owens had perfected machinery for blowing tumblers, light bulbs and lamp chimneys

Extensive timbering began along the Pocatalico River

A timber company began extensive operations on the waters of Pocatalico which added to Poca's growth.

Morris Shawkey came to West Virginia as professor of education at West Virginia Wesleyan College

E. M. Statler left the McLure House for Buffalo, New York

Ephraim Wells opened the Wells Hotel in Sistersville

The Virginia was built in Cincinnati

Ralph Weinberg was born in Baltimore

The McDowell County courthouse at Welch was constructed

Welch population was at 300

Agnes Westbrook Morrison was the first woman to graduate from College of Law at WVU

Agnes Howard Hall, now on the Register of Historic Places, was built as a residence for women at West Virginia Wesleyan College

Williamson became the county seat of Mingo County

Hurry-up Yost played tackle on the WVU football team

A.S. Withers wrote an early report of Betty Zane's save of Fort Henry in Chronicles of Border Warfare

Office of the Elkins Inter-Mountain newspaper suffered a fire