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
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
Fred Mooney left as secretary-treasurer of UMWA District 17
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
