Romeo Freer

Former Confederates and sympathizers elected a Democratic-Conservative legislature and governor

John Jay Jackson Jr. appointed federal commissioners to supervise election in West Virginia opening the vote to ex-Confederates

John Jacob was elected governor of West Virginia

The Mountain Boy steamboat was destroyed by river ice at Cincinnati

Joseph Beury shipped the first coal from the New River Coalfield

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway arrived on the south side of Kanawha River in Charleston

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway arrived on south side of Kanawha River

Charles B. Webb started the weekly Kanawha Chronicle

C&O forced into default from national depression

The legislative act to esbablish a "branch state normal school" in the Mercer County community of Concord was amended and stipulated that the school would be transferred to Princeton if arrangements for land and a building were not completed within one year

William Dawson moved to Kingwood

Marmaduke Dent received M.A. from WVU

Three acres of property was donated to the state and ready for use in the fall by Glenville State College

East Liverpool, Ohio, raised $5,000 for the Laughlins to start a pottery to make white ware

The House of Delegates had 65 delegates

Legislature exempted certain businesses from taxes because of the economic panic

German Jews arrived in Charleston and formed a congregation

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

Kanawha Valley Bank was the only bank in Charleston to survive the financial panic

The first West Virginia atlas appeared

The eastern and western section of the C&O main line were joined near Hawks Nest

A city waterworks was established in Martinsburg

Natural gas was put in many of downtown buildings in Martinsburg

The Martinsburg & Potomac railroad came to Martinsburg from Williamsport, MD

Sandy Mason was born in Charleston

The C&O Railroad was completed opening the New River Gorge to the coal and timber industry

The Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company was formed.

Daniel Purinton received a B.A. degree from WVU

An explosion caused the Ritchie Mines to be closed

The C&O was completed at Thurmond

William Thurmond was commissioned to survey land on the north side of New River

Isaiah Welch came to McDowell County to evaluate natural resources

Isaiah Welch surveyed the mineral reserves of the Pocahontas No. 3 coal seam

The Woodburn Seminary at WVU burned

The Western Maryland Railway extended to the C&O Canal

Separate rooms for black patients were added at Weston State Hospital

Archibald Campbell repurchased the Wheeling Intelligencer

Date of the first official burial at Spring Hill

The great railroad strike, the first nationwide industrial strike, began at Martinsburg

The great railroad strike originated among B&O workers in Martinsburg

The national railroad strike began in Martinsburg

Booker T. Washington left West Virginia

Marmaduke Dent won election to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Thomas Riley was elected attorney general

William MacCorkle was elected governor

Albert White was elected governor of West Virginia

Charles Ambler received an A.B. in social sciences

J. G. Bradley came to West Virginia

Sturdevant and Johnson constructed new buildings

Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad was built

Name changed from Thomas Hospital to Charleston General Hospital

Barber Sanatorium constructed by Dr. Timothy L. Barber Sr.

Railroad from Greenbrier Valley to Bartow completed

Roy Bird Cook graduated from high school

John Cornwell was Democratic nominee for governor

Davis & Elkins College founded by Southern Presbyterians

Rebecca Davis wrote autobiography Bits of Gossip

William M. O. Dawson ceased to be chairman of West Virginia Republicans

John Dickinson became the first director of the Kanawha Coal Operators Association

Chestnut blight introduced to America

Fairmont West Virginian became daily

Millard Giesey and Frederic Faris designed the West Virginia Building at the St. Louis World's Fair

Pennsylvania investors opened a second glass sand plant on the east side of Warm Springs Ridge

The Glenville Democrat was first published

Capt. Greene acquired the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet Co.

Railroads reached the Guyandotte River area

The National Carbon Company began operating a graphite plant in Anmore

The Huntington Dispatch began

Frankie Masters was born in Pleasants County

Cousin Abe Lilly was elected prosecuting attorney of Raleigh County

The C&O Railroad was constructed from Huntington to city of Logan

The Logan County coal industry began its boom

Gannett's gazetteer was the first to be devoted exclusively to West Virginia place names and locations

Wheeling Metal and Manufacturing Company opened in Glen Dale

Sandy Mason moved back to Charleston to start the Mason School of Music and Fine Arts

John McGraw became chairman of state Democratic party

Thomas Gaylord McKell died

John McWhorter became a judge of West Virginia's 12th judicial circuit

James Miller was elected as a judge of the Circuit Court of the Ninth West Virginia Circuit

A fifteenth dam was built on the Monongahela

The daily edition Morgantown Evening Post stopped publication

The Morgantown Chronicle was founded by Hu Maxwell

The Mount St. George mansion was completed

John Nugent was elected president of UMWA District 17

Herschel Ogden purchased the Wheeling Intelligencer

Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly spearheaded a drive that defeated a proposal to built a Carnegie Library in Wheeling

Pence Springs water was presented the highest award in its class.

Benjamin Rosenbloom was admitted to the West Virginia bar

Henry Schmulbach built the Schmulbach Building in Wheeling

Official addressed the question of a flag for the West Virginia building at the St. Louis World's Fair

John Swint was ordained to the priesthood

William P. Tams went to work for Samuel Dixon in the New River coalfield

Henry Gassaway Davis built the Coal & Coke Railway

Sam Vinson died

John T. McGraw expanded the Webster Springs Hotel

A president who was not the state superintendent of school was elected to head of the West Virginia Education Association

Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke was elected to be in the first group of Rhodes Scholars

Matthew Whittico renamed his paper the McDowell Times

J. G. Bradley came to Clay County

Hurry-up Yost's University of Michigan team defeated WVU 130-0

Paul Wissmach reorganized his company as Ohio Valley Glass Company