W. D. Thurmond

Southern Baptist Convention organized

Arthur Boreman was admitted to the bar

Bruen land agents had sold a number of farm sites to northern settlers

Luke Jaco opened a tavern and stagecoach stop that was part of the Underground Railroad

Doddridge County was name in honor of Philip Doddridge

Reported three dozen primitive sawmills in present West Virginia

Town of Glenville was laid out

John Hale graduated from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Frank Herford graduated from McKendree College, Illinois

The Great Potato Famine in Ireland pushed many Irish into the area of Western Virginia

John Jay Jackson Jr. graduated from College of New Jersey (Princeton University)

The Reeves family moved to Philippi

William McCoy built a new mill on site of the old mill

Thomas Gaylord McKell was born

The Moorefield Examiner was established

Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) died

Lynnside Manor was built

The middle section of Staunton Turnpike was completed to Weston

George Summers left the House of Representatives

The Funkhouser house was built

A skirmish in the streets of Winfield led to the death of Capt. Philip Thurmond

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

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

Lilly Freer died in Nicaragua

Date of the first official burial at Spring Hill