John Jay Jackson Jr.

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

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

William Thurmond moved to Fayette County

The Funkhouser house was built

Report of Salt Rock petroglyphs included in Smithsonian Institution's "Contributions to Knowledge"

Bids authorized on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike

Rebecca Davis graduated from the Washington (Pennsylvania) Female Seminary

William Eagle died

First county and circuit courts of Wirt County met in "Old Red Brick"

The Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike was completed

John Floyd was elected governor

German immigration increased from desire to escape persecution during European Revolutions

The first German newspaper was established in Wheeling

The Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike was completed

Joseph H. Gill surveyed the Guyandotte River from its mouth to Gilbert Creek

The Ellicott Brothers business failed

C. P. Huntington went to California with the gold rush to sell supplies to miners

A Catholic Church was established at Sand Fork

Daniel Lamb became the cashier of the Northwestern Bank of Virginia at Wheeling

A single lock and dam was built on the Elk River

Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis published Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy was founded

Francis Pierpont began an association with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

A massive fire and flood doomed Creel's village to an early death

Samuel Price was reelected to the House of Delegates

Bancroft was settled

Henry Ruffner resigned as president of Washington College (Washington and Lee University)

James Stephenson left the House of Delegates

Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. died

Cabell, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties provided infantry regiments for service in the Mexican-American War

Alfred Beckley was appointed a militia general

The Buffalo Academy was founded

Alexander Campbell elected president of the American Christian Missionary Society

Baltimore investors built Mountain House at Capon Springs

First national convention of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination

General Assembly authorized development of plans for improvements to make Coal River more navigable

John Gallaher was named auditor for the U.S. Treasury by President Zachary Taylor

Guyandotte was officially incorporated

City of New Cumberland received its charter from Virginia

Frank Hereford moved to California where he practiced law

Cummins Jackson died in California

John Jacob obtained a B.A. from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

The first Jewish community established a religious congregation in Wheeling

William C. Kelly was born

Construction on the B&O line Kingwood Tunnel began

George Latham moved to Taylor County

The Guyandotte Navigation Company was incorporated by the state of Virginia

The National Hotel was built in Martinsburg

Randolph McCoy married his cousin Sarah McCoy

Alexander Creel bought back land he had previously sold and established the city of St. Marys

Samuel Price was reelected to the House of Delegates.

William Miller died

Lydia Shepherd denied that Betty Zane made the famous gunpowder run to save Fort Henry, claiming it was Molly Scott

Patrick Donahue was born

The Wheeling tannery was founded by John G. Hoffman

Work began on the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike

Wheeling had free public schools

Winfield was laid out

A brick courthouse was completed at Winfield

Philip Pendleton Kennedy wrote an account of his visit to the Blackwater area, Blackwater Chronicle

"Winchester" span of Harpers Ferry bridge was constructed to carry Winchester & Potomac Railroad

Wills De Hass published History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia

Daniel Farnsworth became one of early magistrates in new Upshur County

Morris Harvey served as county jailer

Stonewall Jackson left the army to teach at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington

Canal construction on the James River was extended to Buchanan

City of Harpers Ferry was established

Benjamin Kelley became freight agent for the B&O Railroad

Joseph Lightburn left the army at rank of sergeant

Wills De Hass wrote History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia

Mountain Cove Spiritualist Community was founded by James L. Scott

The Virginia legislature approved the charter for railroad to run from the B&O mainline to Parkersburg

William S. Miller planted his first orchard in Gerrardstown

George Summers was the Whig candidate for the first popularly elected governor of Virginia

Virginius Island was absorbed into the corporate boundaries of Harpers Ferry

Bushrod Corbin Washington died

Albert Jenkins formed the 8th Virginia Cavalry (CSA)

The Logan Wildcats joined Gen. John B. Floyd near Little Sewell Mountain

Convention changed the name to West Virginia and added five counties

Two large rooms on the second floor of the Atheneum Prison were rented by the government for use as winter quarters for secessionist prisoners held at Camp Carlile on Wheeling Island

There were six Baptists associations in West Virginia with almost 7,000 members

Jacob Blair was an ardent Unionist when the Civil War broke out

Navigational improvements made to the Coal River in the late 1850s were largely lost in the great flood

Some of first troop movements of the Civil War originated at Camp Carlile

Presidency Lincoln appointed Archibald Campbell postmaster of the Wheeling Post Office

Ceredo became Union stronghold

At the start of Civil War, Confederate attempts to secure the Kanawha Valley failed

Nearly all parts of the present state were fully occupied by the filling out of the county settlement pattern

Martin Delany published Blake: or, The Huts of America

Bethany's Delta Tau Delta founding members graduated or left for service

William Dickinson Jr. came to Kanawha

John Echols was commissioned lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army

Daniel Farnsworth served in Second Wheeling Convention to create the Reorganized Government of Virginia

Charles Faulkner delivered his last report to Secretary of State William Seward

Granville Davisson Hall returned to record the proceedings of the Wheeling Convention

Hancock County voters rejected the Virginia secession ordinance

Harpers Ferry Armory and Arsenal was destroyed

Nancy Hart was captured as a rebel spy in Braxton County

Devil Anse Hatfield married Levicy Chafin

John Imboden commanded a light battery at the initial capture of Harpers Ferry

William Thomas Bland was born

Mudwall Jackson engaged the Wood County militia colonel in a fist-fight at Parkersburg's Jail House Riots

Stonewall Jackson sided with Virginia in secession

Job's temple was constructed

The Civil War came to Keyser with the building of Fort Fuller

George Latham's Company B. 2nd Virginia Infantry was ordered to stay in Grafton to vote against Virginia's Ordinance of Secession before leaving for battle

Joseph Lightburn went to Wheeling

A flood destroyed the locks and dams on the Guyandotte River

Daniel Lucas served Confederate Gen. Henry A Wise in the Kanawha Valley campaign

John McCausland organized and took command of the 36th Virginia when Virginia seceded

A group of Moccasin Rangers captured Ripley and looted the town

The Union Academy was closed

Allen Taylor Caperton first served as senator to the Confederate States of America

Anna Jarvis' home was headquarters for Union Gen. George B. McClellan

The first refinery was built in Parkersburg

Camp Carlisle became a major army recruiting and training center

Pocahontas County suddenly became part of the front line of the Civil War

Z. D. Ramsdell became captain of the 5th Virginia Regiment.

Randolph County voted in favor of secession when Virginia left the Union

Johnson Newlon Camden and John Jay Jackson Sr. brought in "The Eternal Center" well

Jesse Reno was called east to command a brigade.

William Starke Rosecrans drove Confederate forces from West Virginia

William Stevenson represented Wood County at the first constitutional convention

Peter Van Winkle served in the Second Wheeling Convention

Peter Van Winkle was a member of the Governor's Council of the Reorganized Government of Virginia

Peter Van Winkle represented Wood County in West Virginia's Constitutional Convention

James O. Watson served as a delegate to the Second Wheeling Convention

The constitutional convention for West Virginia met at the Wheeling Custom House.

Voters west of the Allegheny Mountains rejected Virginia's secession from the U.S.

Alexander Withers moved to Parkersburg

Federal forces were stationed in Wood County

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

John Jacob was elected governor of West Virginia

Romeo Freer elected prosecuting attorney for Kanawha County

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

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

Laura Jackson Arnold was named "Mother of the Regiment" by the 5th West Virginia Cavalry