West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey

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

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

Laura Jackson Arnold was named an honorary member of the Society of the Army of West Virginia

The Kessinger Brothers started performing on radio station WOBU (WCHS)

A new city council was seated in Hinton

Guyan Valley High School was built in Pleasant View

Kyle McCormick became publisher of the Princeton Observer

A granite monument marking Zackquill Morgan's grave was erected

Lawrence Nuttall donated his plant collection to the WVU Herbarium

The American Viscose Corporation started rayon production in South Parkersburg

Giuseppe Argiro of Fairmont was credited with creating the pepperoni roll

1,099 cases of smallpox were reported in West Virginia

The state's milk control program began

The federal court case United Mine Workers of America v. Red Jacket Consolidation Coal and Coke Company affirmed the use of injunctions against union organizing efforts

Blind Alfred Reed wrote "The Wreck of the Virginian"

Walter Reuther moved to Detroit

Frederick H. Rhead joined the Laughlin Company

The boundaries of the Monongahela National Forest were extended to include the Smoke Hole

Legislature acted to acquire additional areas for state parks

Festus Summers studied at Columbia University

The William Byrne Elk River tales began a regular feature in the West Virginia Wild Life Magazine, and were later published as Tale of the Elk

Sam Taylor ended his state police career after losing a leg in an on-duty motorcycle accident

W.W. Trent became president of Alderson-Broaddus College

A planing mill in Parson became a woolen mill

Consolidation Coal Company became the largest independent bituminous mining company in the nation

Ernest T. Weir took over as chief executive officer of National Steel

Lenna Lowe Yost became the first woman to serve on the West Virginia Wesleyan College Board of Trustees

Gas leak and fire destroyed much of the glass factory, but the company resumed a year later

Vernon Johnson was reelected as Speaker of the House of Delegates

Peach production was at 200,000 bushels

The first West Virginia State Poultry Association meeting was held in Morgantown.

Eleanor was built as a federal project to relocate displaced families.

West Virginia repealed state prohibition

Sam Snead became a golf professional

The Fairmont & Clarksburg Traction merger became Monongahela West Penn Service Company

Another legal case concerning the Swan lands

Grace Martin Taylor quit serving as president of the Allied Artists of West Virginia

W. W. Trent oversaw implementation of the county unit system of public schools

Land was acquired at Dailey and Valley Bend for the Tygart Valley Homesteads

Eleanor Roosevelt first visited the Tygart Valley Homesteads

Union Carbide produced 80 chemicals and plastics

Camp Seebert was established by the Civilian Conservation Corps

Watoga was changed from a state forest to a state park

The Highway historical marker program began

Antonio Modarellio took over as conductor of the Wheeling Symphony

Colors antique gold, turf green (avocado) mango red and original red were introduced in fiestaware

Francis Ford Coppola filmed The Rain People

Davis Grubb published Fools' Parade

The Overseas National Airway acquired the Greene Line packet service

Alberta Pierson Hannum wrote memoir, Look Back with Love: A Recollection of the Blue Ridge

Logan Grade School was constructed on Hatfield Island

The federal government recognized pneumoconiosis, black lung, as an occupational disease

William Hoffman wrote The Dark Mountains

Legislature enacted a new Municipal Code that modernized regulation of cities and towns

Ivor Boiarsky helped pass a reorganization of the higher education system

Island Creek Coal Company was sold to Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum Company

John Knowles wrote Phineas: Six Stories

Howard B. Lee wrote Bloodletting in Appalachia

Maryat Lee published Four Men and a Monster

State legislation was passed to allow the Library Commission to make direct grants for operating expenses to libraries complying with its administrative rules

James G. Linger sold the Linger Chair factory to the Upshur County Chair and Craft Cooperative

Hobert Skidmore died

Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company stopped painting new barn signs

Jack Maurice became editor-in-chief of the Charleston Daily Mail

The Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College began as a branch of Marshall University

Greasy Neale was inducted into the National Football League Hall of Fame

Treasure Mountain Festival was inaugurated

The U.S. Navy began operating a major communications center at Sugar Grove

An 18-hole golf course opened at Pipestem Resort State Park

Public television stations began broadcasting

The American Public Health Association conferred its Presidential Award on Donald Rasmussen for exceptional service in the fight against black lung

The nursing school at St. Joseph's Hospital in Parkersburg closed

A new dormitory was completed at the state police academy

A P.E. Building was built at Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston)

Adjutant General Department estimated West Virginia suffered an estimated 2.75 death rate per 10,000 citizens due to the Vietnam War

WCHS-FM went on the air

West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company changed its name to Westvaco

Harness racing at Wheeling Downs resumed

The Luther Elkins Petroglyph was studied

Warren McGraw was elected to the House of Delegates

Frankie Yankovic was one of the first two people inducted into the International Polka Association Hall Of Fame in Chicago

Virginia Mae Brown was named chairman of the ICC, the first woman to head an independent administrative agency of the federal government

Nick Saban graduated from Monongah High School

Clyde Ware's first novel, The Innocents was published

The annual Civilian Conservation Corps reunion began at Camp Woodbine

Morris Harvey College became the University of Charleston

Senator Jay Rockefeller became the chairman of the President's Commission on Coal

James Stam became president of Salem College

Another Soupy Sales Show was offered syndication

Mary Lee Settle won the National Book Award for Fiction for Blood Tie

Frank Thomas wrote It Is This Way with Men Who Fly, a history of West Virginia aviation

The B&O South Branch line was turned over to the West Virginia State Rail Authority

The Nelson family sold the United Carbon Building

Cyrus Vance had a role in Camp David peace and the Panama Canal Treaty

The first class of 33 students graduated from the School of Osteopathic Medicine

The region's first cardiac catheterization laboratory was opened at Wheeling Hospital

The "fetus protection policy" was instituted by the American Cyanamid's Willow Island Plant

Bob Wise became involved in community redevelopment from the Mingo County floods

State legislature passed and county residents endorsed Sunday racing at Mountaineer Race Track

A baccalaureate degree in Bible was added at Ohio Valley College (now University)

William Price McNeel became editor of the Pocahontas Times

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel began construction of continuous caster

State ex rel. Board of Education v. Rockefeller changed the financing of public schools

Union Carbide headquarters moved to Danbury, Connecticut

The elecro-metallurgical plant at Alloy was sold to the Elkem Company

Jim Comstock sold the West Virginia Hillbilly to South Charleston Publishing Company

Mike Shott became general manager of WHIS radio

Meredith Sue Willis wrote Higher Ground

Margaret Workman was appointed to an unexpired term on the Kanawha Circuit Court by Governor Rockefeller

WVMR began broadcasting on 1370 AM

Camp Twin Creeks at Minnehaha Springs became coed

The West Virginia Motorsports Council was established by Governor Wise

Mountain Stage began broadcasting on public television

North Bend State Park added a 305-acre lake

Brad Paisley joined the Grand Ole Opry

Ashby Berkley and his sister sold the Pence Springs property

Jayne Anne Phillips published Motherkind

Pilgrim's Pride bought out WLR Foods poultry processors

The PROMISE scholarship was funded

The governance role in St. Joseph's Hospital by the Sisters of St. Joseph ended

Mary Lee Settle wrote I, Roger Williams

Michael Smith performed at the presidential inaugural prayer service

The Smoke Hole Lodge closed

Surface mining production was 60 million tons

The Thomas Memorial emergency center was expanded

Marsh Wheeling Stogies stopped making cigars

Joseph Carter was elected president of UMWA District 17

The West Virginia Mining and Reclamation Association merged with the West Virginia Coal Association

The West Virginia Hillbilly ceased publication

Grant Cooper became conductor of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra

Major renovations took place at Kanawha Airport