Fred Mooney

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

Harley Kilgore was commissioned a second lieutenant

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

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

Women set up an emergency food station during the Mine Wars

Harry Bandholtz, commander of the federal troops, intervened in the West Virginia Mine Wars

Battle of Blair Mountain led to the treason trial

Sam Taylor served as a state policeman in the Battle of Blair Mountain

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

Out-of-state KKK publication carried reports from several West Virginia location

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

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