Emma Alderson founded the Alderson Baptist Academy (now Alderson-Broaddus College) in Alderson
Emma Alderson founded the Alderson Baptist Academy (now part of Alderson Broaddus University) in Alderson
Charles Ambler went to school at WVU
Morris Harvey donated $10,000 to Barboursville College, now University of Charleston
Branch of the C&O reached Beckley
Matthew Clair earned his PhD from Bennette College in Greensboro, NC
Thomas G. McKell built the Dun Glen Hotel
West Virginia oil production peaked at 16 million barrels
Deadly explosion in Consolidation Coal Company's No. 9 occurred
Aretas Fleming and Clarence W. Watson merged coal companies into the Fairmont Coal Company
Legislature decreed state game and fish warden would be paid from state treasury and could appoint deputy wardens
J. P. Morgan interests began construction on works in Gary
The Little Kanawha Valley Bank was incorporated
The Barboursville Seminary changed its name to Morris Harvey College, now University of Charleston
Harold Houston began practicing law in Parkersburg
The Cabell County Courthouse was dedicated
The Home for the Incurables changed its name to West Virginia Asylum
James Monroe Jackson died
Teepi Kendrick married Olive Garrison
A constitutional amendment required voter registration
I. T. Mann visited financier J. P. Morgan in New York
Mifflin Marsh died
The United State Stamping Company began operations
Alexander McVeigh Miller won a seat in the West Virginia Senate
Morgantown annexed Greenmont, Seneca, and South Morgantown
The N&W acquired the Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia
Earl Oglebay sold his iron ore interests to U.S. Steel
Earl Oglebay bought a mansion between Wheeling and Bethany, Waddington Farm
George Peterkin helped erect a monument on Valley Mountain to memorialize the deaths of Confederate soldiers
The Flat-top Coal Land Association was reorganized as the Pocahontas Coal & Coke Company
Livia Poffenbarger established a local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Potomac State College was founded
The West Virginia University band was founded by Walter Mestrezat.
Daniel Purinton returned to WVU to become president.
Richwood was incorporated
Charles Ritter brought the offices of Tug River Lumber Company to Huntington
William M. Ritter Lumber Company was incorporated
Benjamin Rosenbloom played on the WVU football team
The board of directed voted to establish a nursing school at Sheltering Arms Hospital
The Pope Dock Company built New Grand Floating Palace
The first local branch of West Virginia Socialist Party was established in Wheeling
Samuel Starks was appointed as the first black in U.S. to serve as state librarian
The Fairmont & Clarksburg Traction streetcar company began
Another long distance telephone line was constructed through West Virginia
The first coal in Upshur County was commercially mined
Ward Engineering Works built the Unique for the U.S. Engineering Corp
The Historical Society began publishing The West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly
Albert Blakeslee White became governor
Hurry-up Yost became coach at University of Michigan
