The name of the Winchester Female Institute was changed to Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University)
Johnson Camden and his partners quietly sold to Rockefeller's Standard Oil
Marmaduke Dent was admitted to the bar
Stephen Elkins married Hallie Davis Elkins
Aretas Fleming left the House of Delegates
Oil was first struck in Glenville
The Grange had 20,000 lodges and 800,000 members in the country
The Lewisburg Academy reopened after closing during the Civil War
Courthouse in Hamlin was constructed
The Pennsboro & Harrisville Railroad was built
The House of Delegates impeached Treasurer John Burdett
The American Ancient Order of Hibernians started a division in Wheeling
The capital was moved from Charleston to Wheeling
Harriet Jones graduated from the Women's Medical College of Baltimore
Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek
James Kay married Julia Ballintyne
Wheeling became known as the Nail City because of La Belle Ironworks
The legislature was required to met biennially
President Alexander Martin left WVU
A bill providing for better ventilation in the mines had been first introduced in legislature
The Morrow family moved to Pittsburgh
Johnson Newlon Camden joined John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust
The Sentinel was founded as the Parkersburg Weekly Sentinel by Robert Hornor.
Reported 14 baptisms at St. John's Chapel
The first band sawmill began operation in West Virginia
Nathan Scott moved to Wheeling
Alexander Wade was elected Monongalia County school superintendent
Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Institute
Cassville was chartered
Ernest T. Weir was born
I.C. White earned a masters degree at WVU
Woodlawn Cemetery began as a private family burial ground
