Jennings Randolph

Women received the right to vote

State apple-packing plant in Inwood was established

Walter Barnes wrote Types of Children's Literature

14 West Virginia cities and towns had professional baseball

Braxton's population peaked at 23,973

Alonzo Brooks published West Virginia Trees

Izetta Brown was first woman to second a presidential nominee, John W. Davis

Chauncey H. Browning graduated from Logan High School

City Hospital was moved to Camden mansion on Garfield Avenue in Parkersburg

Don Chafin was reelected as sheriff

Louis Watson Chappell received his M.A. from University of Virginia

The Union Carbide Company bought small refinery near Clendenin

Matthew Wesley Clair, Sr. was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Fayette County population jumped to 60,377

Caroline Gentry released The Key to Power, a movie

The Glen Ferris Inn was sold to a subsidiary of Union Carbide

Voters approved the Good Roads amendment

Grafton reached its peak population of 8,517

H. B. Moore and his brothers purchased the school and reorganized it as the Greenbrier Military School

Harrison County population rose to 74,783

Sid Hatfield assisted a United Mine Workers campaign to organize Tug Fork miners

The Clarksburg factory of the Hazel Atlas Glass Company had 15 acres of floor space, employed 1,200 people and shipped all over the world

Chemical firms in the Kanawha Valley began expanding rapidly

Census reported 6,260 Hungarians in West Virginia

Union organizing led to confrontations at Matewan and Blair Mountain

La Belle Ironworks merged with Wheeling Iron and Steel and Whitaker-Glessner Company to form Wheeling Steel Corporation

Ann Johnson Gates became the first woman member of the West Virginia legislature

The legislator salary was set at $500

High school at Walkersville was constructed

John L. Lewis became the president of the UMWA

Big Bill Lias started a career in the illegal sale and distribution of liquor

Minnie Lowther moved to Washington

Jacob Marcus attained his rabbinical ordination

William Marsh stopped serving as president of the M. Marsh and Son company

Marshall became a four-year college

The name was changed from Martinsburg West Virginia Evening Journal to Martinsburg Journal

McDowell was the third most populous county in the state

Willow Glen mansion, known in the Wheeling area as McKinley's Palace, was completed

James Miller ran unsuccessfully for secretary of state

James Miller left as judge

Additional land for Monongahela National Forest was purchased

The B&O leased the Morgantown & Kingwood

The National Bank of Commerce moved to Charleston and was renamed the State Street Bank

The Parkersburg Daily Sentinel ceased publication.

Monongahela National Forest was created.

The buildings at Red Sulphur Springs were dismantled and the resort ceased operation.

Red Ribble moved to Mount Hope

The third courthouse at Ripley was built

There were 398 sawmills operating in West Virginia

The United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans decided to erect a memorial to Heyward Shepherd

W. H. S White became president of Shepherd College

Matthew Holt was the Socialist candidate for governor

James Weldon Johnson was responsible for publishing Anne Spencer's " Before the Feast at Shushan"

P. D. Strausbaugh received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago

Howard Sutherland made a bid for presidency of United States

Union Carbide purchased a small refinery at Clendenin

C. W. Ferguson III was born

Webster County population was 11,000

Weirton population was at 8,000

Welch population was at 3,232

West Liberty's first dorms were built

Riley Wilson ran unsuccessfully for Congress

Carter G. Woodson left Howard University

Carter G. Woodson began Dean of the West Virginia Collegiate Institution (now West Virginia State University)

Evangelist Billy Sunday stayed at Aracoma Hotel

Shepherd Field, Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport, opened

Walter Barnes wrote New Democracy in the Teaching of English

The Beckley Register began publishing a Sunday issue

Son William H. and wife joined William J. Blenko in Milton at his first factory

Maurice Brooks graduated from WVU with a B.A.

West Virginia's first commercial radio station WRVC began broadcasting in the Huntington area

Thomas Carr retired from Carr China Company

First baccalaureate degrees were awarded at Concord State Normal School (now Concord University)

Phil Conley founded the West Virginia Publishing Company

The last Democratic majority until 1930

The beaver was extirpated for its fur

John Harrington Cox received his Ph.D. from Harvard

Julia Davis married William McMillan Adams

Rev. Robert Edward Lee Strider was consecrated bishop coadjutor of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Wheeling

Fairmont State was authorized for four-year program but must confine to training teachers

Cooperative agricultural marketing law was passed

U.S. Coal Commission report awarded Gary 90 out of 100 points for cleanliness, urban amenities and safety consideration

The current courthouse was completed in Glenville

School name was changed from Lewisburg Seminary to Greenbrier College for Women

Lost Creek was the largest cattle shipping point on the B&O system

The present Ritchie County courthouse was completed

Homer Holt received a law degree from Washington and Lee University

Construction of the large Itmann Company Store began

Ella Mae Turner published compilation Stories and Verses of West Virginia

Herman Kump left office as mayor of Elkins

The State Hospital for the Colored Insane and the State Industrial School for Colored boys were established in Lakin

Hu Maxwell wrote A Tree History of the United States

Margaret Montague published Deep Channel

Herbert Chester became publisher of the Morgantown Post

Huntington First (Church of the Nazarene) was established in the Charleston-Huntington corridor and is the oldest congregation in that area

Henry Ford built the world's largest incline tipple

Herschel Ogden bought the Martinsburg Journal

Okey Patteson married Lee Hawse.

Maceo Pinkard helped set up Duke Ellington's first recording session.

The first land for the Monongahala National Forest in Pocahontas County was acquired

The Wm. M. Ritter Lumber Company acquired the Red Jacket Consolidated Coal and Coal company

Walton High School was established

Thomas Reynolds built the Majestic showboat

Weirton Steel added another sheet plant

P. D. Strausbaugh became head of the department of botany at WVU

Festus Summers earned an A.B. at WVU

Howard Sutherland's term in the U.S. Senate ended

Clint Thomas began a stint with the Philadelphia Hillsdale Giants baseball team

W. W. Trent became editor of the West Virginia School Journal

The West Virginia State Wildlife Center was established at French Creek

Ralph Weinberg married Ida Effron

Wheeling Bank & Trust Company acquired the Bank of the Ohio Valley

The Northern Teachers' Association ended

The Game and Fish Commission purchased property in Upshur County

The West Virginian Hotel was built in Bluefield

Patty Willis exhibited her work at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington, DC

Lenna Yost represented the U.S. at international congresses against alcoholism in Denmark

Hack Wilson began playing for the New York Giants

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

Rush Holt graduated from Salem College

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.

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

William Page Pitt joined the faculty of Marshall College.

John S. Bonar became president of West Liberty State Normal School (now West Liberty University)

Democrats began majority in both houses of state legislature

Voters rejected a proposed amendment to create office of lieutenant-governor

Clarence Meadows was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates

Matthew M. Neely was elected to the U.S. Senate

The Tax Limitation Amendment was passed by voters

Edgar B. Sims of Harrison County was elected state auditor

Richard E. Talbott was elected state treasurer

Rimfire Hamrick ran unsuccessfully for legislature as Republican

Homer Holt was elected state attorney general

John Kee was first elected to Congress

Harley Kilgore was elected judge of the Criminal Court for Raleigh County

Herman Kump successfully ran for governor

Democrats took over West Virginia with support from active federal government

T. C. Townsend ran unsuccessfully for governor

Richard Talbott was elected state treasurer

Cleve Bailey was defeated by Edward G. Rohrbough for seat in Congress

Robert C. Byrd was elected to the House of Delegates

Roy Lee Harmon was elected to the House of Delegates

Frank Haymond was elected to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Matthew M. Neely was defeated for another term in the House of Representatives

Robert C. Byrd was elected to the U.S. Senate

Robert C. Bryd was elected to the U.S. Senate

Election led to an increase in Democratic strength in state House and Senate

Reorganization changed name from AG&E back to Appalachian Power

Leroy Allen became president of Bluefield State College (now University)

Ruby Bradley became a colonel

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company was sold to Clinchfield Coal Company

Clarksburg Park Board developed Buffalo Lake into a public recreation area

Dale Brooks released "The Ambridge Boogie" on Cozy Records

Phyllis Curtin sang Susannah at the Brussels World's Fair

Phyllis Curtin sang with the Charleston Symphony Opera

Ellis Dungan returned to the Ohio Valley, settling in Wheeling

State superintendent of schools became a Board of Education appointee

National Radio Quiet Zone surrounding Green Bank observatory was established by the Federal Communications Commission

Jack Fleming became announcer for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Follansbee rolling and annealing facilities were sold to Wheeling Steel

"Biggie" Goldberg was elected to the NFL Hall of Fame and the West Virginia Sports Writers Hall of Fame

Davis Grubb wrote The Watchman

Alberta Pierson Hannum wrote Paint the Wind

Chuck Howley was drafted by the Chicago Bears

The school year was interrupted by an anti-integration school bombing at Osage near Morgantown

A new dormitory was constructed at Marshall College (now University)

The need for local graduate education was articulated by officials at Union Carbide Corporation and other Kanawha Valley chemical concerns, and Kanawha Valley Graduate Center was founded

John Matheus retired from West Virginia State College (now University)

Jack Maurice won the Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial writing

The McClain Printing Company was incorporated

McClain Printing Company published its first book, Chronicles of Border Warfare by Alexander Scott Withers

Mildred Mitchell-Bateman became superintendent of the Lakin State Hospital

Moncove Public Hunting and Fishing area was purchased by the West Virginia Conservation Commission

Ohio Valley Speedway was built

Construction on the National Radio Astronomy Observatory began at Green Bank

Marble King Factory moved to Paden City

William Revercomb left U.S. Senate, defeated by Robert C. Byrd

Leonard Riggleman led Morris Harvey to accreditation

Fred Schaus guided WVU's basketball team to a No. 1 national ranking at the end of the regular season

Festus Summers co-authored with Charles Ambler the second edition of West Virginia: The Mountain State

Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) was accredited by the North Central Accreditation Agency

Jerry West played on the WVU team that finished No.1 in the nation

Jerry West was a second-team All-American in basketball

West Virginia Yesterday and Today was adopted as a state textbook

The West Virginia turnpike was included in the Interstate highway system

A water ski show moved from Tennessee to Hinton

Aunt Jennie Wilson was discovered by Patrick Gainer

Elizabeth Gilmore helped organize the Charleston chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)