Laura Jackson Arnold

There were four associations of Baptist churches in West Virginia

Alfred Beckley gained a clear title to 56,679 acres in Raleigh County

William Jenkins built the Green Bottom mansion

The Greenbrier County courthouse was built in Lewisburg

William Barton Roger conducted a geological survey of Virginia

The James River Company reorganized as a stock company

The McCoy mill was acquired by the nephew of Gen. William McCoy, William McCoy

John Myers is believed to have died

Francis Pierpont entered Allegheny College

There were 15 sawmills in West Virginia

Johann Ludwig established the J. L. Stifel & Sons textile manufacturing

Settlers found the skeletons of William Strange and his dog undisturbed under a sycamore tree

The village of Suttonville (present Sutton) was laid out

The Bower cabin was built

The Universalist Meeting House in Marshall County was built

D.C. Topping established the Virginia Mission in Cabell County of the United Brethren

Peter Van Winkle moved to Parkersburg

Richard Whelan left Mount St. Mary's

Samuel Black was ordained a deacon

Jacob Blair was admitted to the bar

Wills De Hass acquired the Grave Creek tablet and skull when the Grave Creek Mound Museum closed

The first courthouse of Ritchie County was built

The Methodists split

Weston's first church building was erected

The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was created in present West Virginia

Four dams were built upstream from Pittsburgh on the Monongahela

The Spirit of Jeffersonnewspaper began in Charles Town

Philippi was chartered.

The city of Smithville was planned

The first post office in Roane County was established in Walton

John C. Calhoun visited the Salt Sulphur Springs

Cedar Grove was built

Pruntytown became the county seat of Taylor County

Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan removed Averell from command for performance during Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Old Virginia banks transformed into national banks under federal banking legislation

First National Bank of Parkersburg became first national bank in West Virginia

Union troops burned down the resort buildings at Blue Sulphur Springs

Arthur Boreman married Laurane Tanner Bullock

Alexander Boteler's house burned on orders of Union Gen. David Hunter

Belle Boyd married Samuel Wylde Hardinge Jr.

Nathan Brackett graduated from Dartmouth College

Battle of Summit Point

Battle of Charles Town

John Dickinson was captured and kept prisoner at Fort Delaware

Joseph Diss Debar began serving in the legislature from Doddridge County

Joseph Diss Debar was named the first West Virginia commissioner of immigration

Construction of the Easton Roller Mill began

Allegheny College was burned by Union troops

William Ryland White was named first state superintendent of free schools

Stephen Elkins was admitted to the Missouri bar

Fort Moore was built for Capt. W. T. Wiant's home guards

Natural gas was used to produce carbon black for printing ink

John Imboden contracted typhoid fever and was relieved of command

Jacob Jackson returned to Parkersburg

Mudwall Jackson was promoted to brigadier general to command the forces at the Battle of Droop Mountain

The Logan Wildcats were active in the Shenandoah Valley campaign

The Richardson's map was the first map of the new state of West Virginia

The Morgantown Weekly Post was established by Henry M. Morgan and Nimrod Nelson Hoffman

Governor Boreman ordered convicted felons in West Virginia be imprisoned in the Ohio County Jail

Bazel Childers developed a system for fracturing the oil bearing rock to increase production.

Henry Ragland was captured by Union troops near Lurray, Virginia.

The first newspaper in Ripley, the Jackson Democrat was established

Volcano became an oil boom town

The Volcanic Oil & Gas Company was formed

Kellian Whaley was a delegate to the Republican National Convention

Newton Diehl Baker returned to Martinsburg

Nathan Brackett retired from Storer College presidency

James Callahan received his Ph.D. from John Hopkins University

Donnally Publishing Company sold it to Gazette Company

William Edwin Chilton formed law firm with his brother and William A. MacCorkle

J. R. Clifford elected charter member of the American Negro Academy

Blacks began to capitalize on using their political influence under Republican administration

John W. Davis left teaching to open his own practice

William Dawson served as West Virginia's secretary of state

Dow Chemical Company started in Midland, Michigan

William Edwards published another volume in his three-volume work on butterflies, The Butterflies of North America

Fish and Game Warden Office was created to replace Board of Fish Commissioners

Legislature passed legislation that provided for appointment of state game and fish warden

The UMWA began enlisting the support of well-known labor leaders from across the nation

The Huntington State Hospital was established by the legislature as an insane asylum called the Home for Incurables

Legislature reactivated the position of Immigration Commissioner

Fanny Kemble Johnson moved to West Virginia

Mother Jones joined Eugene Debs's Social Democracy and the Unite Mine Workers of America national strike in Pittsburgh

John P. Hale visited the cave where the Kanawha Madonna was found

Hu Maxwell wrote a history of Hampshire County

Ephraim Morgan earned a law degree from WVU

John Brooks Cottle was born

Matthew M. Neely enrolled at WVU

John Nuttall died in Fayette County

Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company began logging Otter Creek

Research on poultry began at West Virginia University.

Reported 82 routes in operation for the Rural Free Delivery

Samuel Starks was elected as supreme chancellor at the Charleston's Capitol City Lodge No. 1

The American Telephone & Telegraph Company extended a long distance line from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, to Charleston through Point Pleasant

The Parkersburg Conference of United Brethren was renamed the West Virginia Conference

Coal operators of Central Competitive Field agreed to peace with UMWA insisting organizing West Virginia too

Volcano oil boom diminished

A disastrous fire occurred in Volcano

The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey was established by legislature

I. C. White began serving as first director of the West Virginia G&ES

Women were permitted to enter all departments and schools except the military

Jerome Hall Rapmond became president of WVU

Consolidation formed the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company

Albert White was appointed as internal revenue agent

Josiah Keely became principal of Montgomery Preparatory School

Hurry-up Yost began coaching at Ohio Wesleyan

Charles Ambler received an M.A. in social sciences

Waitman Barbe wrote The Study of Poetry

Company constructed a three-story wooden hotel near the spring at Barger Springs

Walter Barnes graduated from WVU

Jesse Bloch married Jessie Thornton Moffat

C&O absorbed the Hocking Valley Railroad

William Edwin Chilton and others bought Charleston's electric streetcar system

Oliver Chitwood received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins

Coal & Coke Railway reached Clay

Alston Dayton was appointed judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia

Legislature created a four-member Board of Examiners to issue teaching certificates

Charles Town Academy ceased

Fenton Art Glass Company opened in Martins Ferry, Ohio

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

The Frederick Hotel was built in downtown Huntington

William Glasscock was appointed internal revenue collector for the District of West Virginia by President Theodore Roosevelt

The C&O Greenbrier Division extension to Winterburn was completed

The original Grimes Golden apple tree blew down

Ella Holroyd entered the Cincinnati Conservatory

Earnest T. Weir purchased the Jackson Iron & Tin Company tin mill at Clarksburg

John Jay Jackson Jr. retired as judge

Tommy Benford was born in Charleston

Blanche Lazzell received an art degree from WVU

St. George Orthodox Church of Charleston was established

Howard B. Lee graduated from Marshall College (now University)

Sarah Ann Legg went on trial for murder of Jay Legg

Carnegie library was established in Parkersburg

Oil and gas business began in Griffithsville

The entire Little Kanawha River system was acquired by the federal government

The electric streetcar service arrived in Mannington

Martin Christensen invented the marble-making machine

Frank McEnteer graduated from Harvard Engineering School

Jim Sellers and J.W Grimm bought a brick-making machine

The West Virginia Department of Mines was created

Matewan opened its first hospital

Margaret Montague published The Poet, Miss Kate, and I

The West Virginia State Museum was founded

The B&O Beaux Arts-style station in Wheeling was built

John Nugent was elected president of the state Federation of Labor

Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company expanded operations by buying a sawmill on Cherry River at Coal Siding.

The Western Maryland Railroad arrived in Paw Paw

A commercial department was added to Potomac State College

The Virginian Railroad developed a shop and yards in Princeton.

Teddy Roosevelt walked Eleanor Roosevelt down the aisle to marry FDR

St. Joseph's Hospital opened a nursing school

The Pope Dock Company built Sunny South

The Morgan Museum began in Putnam County by Sidney Morgan

The Sunrise mansion was built by William MacCorkle

Ernest T. Weir founded Phillips Sheet & Tin Plate in Clarksburg

The West Virginia Archives and History was created by legislature

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg(h) became part of the Western Maryland Railway Company

The Historical Society ceased publication of The West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly

The Historical Society collections were moved to the Capitol Annex

West Virginia Wesleyan College awarded its first five degrees

Albert White left office as governor

The Elk River Coal & Lumber Company organized

Timber in the Williams River watershed began being taken out by log train

Williamson was incorporated

A bridge at Williamstown was built