Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation

Thomas Anshutz painted Steamboat on the Ohio

B&O Railroad only hauled four percent of Tidewater-bound soft coal

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company began buying land in West Virginia

George Sturdevant and John W. Johnson purchased the factory at Brush Creek Falls in Mercer County

"Athens" name of new post office and village

William Coley founded the Parsons Advocate newspaper

John William Davis began teaching law at Washington & Lee

Democrats slipped into minority status in West Virginia

According to legend, underground Elk (River) was formed when a hole opened in the stream bed and simply swallowed the river

Thaddeus Fowler first visited West Virginia

Edward Bates Franzheim designed the Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling

The Trinity United Methodist Church was organized in Glenville

Grantsville was incorporated

The H.K. Bedford began Pittsburgh-Charleston service

William Jennings Bryan was defeated as free silver presidential candidate

Hamilton Hatter became the first principal of Bluefield Colored Institute (Bluefield State College)

Homer Laughlin incorporated as Homer Laughlin and Company

The original Seneca Glass Company building was built

William Leigh painted his portrait of Sophie H. Colston

The Moundsville Daily Echo became a daily publication

Louis Marx was born

John McGraw first served as a member of the Democratic National Committee

James Miller served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention

The Seneca Glass Company moved from Ohio to Morgantown

The South Branch Intelligencer merged with the Hampshire Review

Lawrence Nuttall and C. F. Millspaugh published Flora of West Virginia

Melville Davisson Post's short story collection The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason made him immensely popular.

The second period of Republican dominance began

Telephone switchboards were installed at Morgantown

The Webster Springs Hotel was built

Agnes Westbrook Morrison was admitted to the bar

WVU hires its first full-time coach

Matthew Whittico graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania

Matewan challenged Williamson as county seat of Mingo County

Carter Woodson graduated from Douglass High School

Hurry-up Yost played tackle on the WVU football team

The Shenandoah River flooded

Babcock Lumber & Boom Company bought Thompson Lumber Company

Walter Barnes began teaching English at Greenville State Normal School (Greenville State College)

Fairmont, Clarksburg, and Piedmont played baseball in the Class D Western Pennsylvania League

The great Winding Gulf coalfield opened

Elkins Coal & Coke Company put beehive coke ovens into full production

Brinkley Bridge was built

Harry F. Byrd established the Martinsburg Evening Journal

McMillan Hospital created by Dr. William A. McMillan

The Chilton family acquired an interest in the newspaper and changed the name to the Charleston Gazette

The Chilton family acquired an interest in the newspaper and changed the name to the Charleston Gazette

Greenbrier Railway Company purchased by C&O

Oliver Chitwood became professor of history at WVU

Empire Bank building was finished in Clarksburg

Stuart shaft mine explosion killed 85 men

Alston Dayton issued sweeping temporary injunction against the UMW in Hitchman Coal & Coke v. John Mitchell

John Easton came to Williamstown

Edgewood Country Club membership under Angus W. MacDonald constructed clubhouse and tennis courts

State property levy was eliminated

West Virginia lumber production peaked with 1.5 billion board feet sawed

Stella Fuller returned to Huntington

Howard Gore's father died and he took control of the farm

Rimfire Hamrick was employed by the Webster Springs Hotel as guide and handyman

City of Chester was incorporated

A meeting of the West Virginia Fish and Game Protective Association occurred at Clarksburg

John Nugent was appointed immigration commissioner

Lily Jackson inherited the family estate after her father, John Jay Jr. died

Fanny Johnson and husband, Vincent Costello moved to Wheeling

UMWA President John Mitchell came to Charleston to launch a major union offensive

Blanche Lazzell studied at the Art Students League in New York

Coal mining began around Walkersville

Mayor Scott Justice renamed the city of Logan Courthouse (formerly Aracoma) as Logan

Ezra Cline was born

Lawrence J. Corbly's title was changed from principal to president of Marshall College (now University)

The old Tyler County High School building was built

Three other mine disasters occurred including the Monongah Mine Disaster

The first Corn Club in West Virginia was established in Monroe County

Margaret Montague published The Sowing of Alderson Cree

The B&O line extending to the Morgantown & Kingwood line was completed

The Niagara Movement attempted to meet again at Storer College but officials wouldn't allow

Pineville was renamed and incorporated, and became county seat of Wyoming County

The William Ritter Lumber Company was indicted by a federal grand jury on charge of peonage

Reported 6,159 schools in 396 districts in West Virginia

The Lewisburg & Ronceverte brought rail service to Lewisburg

The Banner Glass Company relocated from Indiana to South Charleston

The Robey Theater opened in Spencer

The original stone structure was replace by a viaduct

Morris Harvey died

There was an explosion at the Pleasant Valley Coal Company mine killing 12 men

The Virginian Railway was established

H. Rus Warne had two exhibits at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia

The Wheeling Custom House (West Virginia Independence Hall) ceased being a federal building.

Black teachers formed a separate Northern Teachers' Association

I. C. White advocated for legislation establishing the U.S. Bureau of Mines

Walter Barnes wrote An Easy Primer

Robert C. Byrd's mother died and he was sent to live with his aunt and uncle

Anne Camden died in Parkersburg, leaving the Camden mansion to the heirs which in turn donated the house to the city for use as a hospital

J. Howard Holt published Crime and Punishment, a pamphlet opposing the death penalty

Chamber of Commerce established in Wheeling

Fire destroyed Charleston Gazette newspaper plant located at the South Side Bridge

DuPont Company plant closed at end of WWI

John W. Davis ended his time as solicitor general

John W. Davis became ambassador to England

John W. Davis was a member of the American delegation to the Geneva conference

Construction began on the High Level Bridge in Fairmont

Fairmont Times began publishing Sunday editions

West Virginia Farm Bureau Federation was created

Homer Holt graduated from Washington and Lee University

The Spanish Influenza epidemic became one of the world's deadliest and swiftest pandemics

Weirton Steel Corporation was formed

Fanny Johnson's story "They Both Needed It" was among the best short stories of the year

Hayes Picklesimer first came to work at Kanawha Valley Bank

The United Zinc Smelting Corporation began operation in Marshall County

Williamson Memorial Hospital was founded

The Morgantown Post-Chronicle was renamed the Morgantown Post

The Weekly New Dominion, a Morgantown newspaper, ceased publication

The National Bank of Commerce was founded

Owens-Illinois Glass Company purchased a Huntington glass factory

A large brick hotel was constructed by the Pence family at Pence Springs

Board of Public Works acquired constitutional status by ratification of an earlier amendment

The town of Nitro was completed.

The Bryants built the Bryants New Showboat

The Parkersburg & Ohio Valley Electric Railway ceased operation

Boyd Stutler rose to the rank of sergeant and served with distinction in the American offensives

Eighteen of Melville Davisson Post's stories were published in Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries by Appleton

The German Bank changed its name to the Wheeling Bank & Trust Company

A Romney hospital at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind proved vital during influenza epidemic

Oglebay Hall was completed for the College of Agriculture at WVU

Plans for the West Virginian Hotel began with the Bluefield Rotary Club

West Virginians participated in the Italian Campaign

Lenna Yost became the legislative representative for the national Women's Christian Temperance Union

West Virginia had purchased 311 acres for Audra State Park

Lew Burdette learned to pitch with American Viscose Rayon Company Team

A community board, which helped raise funds to build Charleston Memorial Hospital, was formed in home of Mr. and Mrs. William Ziebold Sr.

Committee began searching for church camp site to honor the Peterkins

Pete Everest was assigned to China-Burma-India region

Smokey Bear was introduced by the Wartime Advertising Council

"Biggie" Goldberg served in the U.S. Army for two years

Davis Grubb's first published story was "The Lollipop Tree" in Good Housekeeping

The GI Bill of Rights provided generous educational benefits to WWII veterans

The Jones Diamond was first displayed at the Smithsonian

Jean Lee Latham received a Silver Wreath for her work training Signal Corps inspectors for the War Department

The first meeting of the West Virginia League of Women Voters was held

Ned Cline died

Kermit McKeever became superintendent of Watoga State Park

A summer youth camp began at Minnehaha Springs

The Monongahela Power & Railway Company was completely out of the streetcar business

Eleanor Steber sang at the Democratic National Convention

Increasing pressure to install a black administration at Storer College led to the forced retirement of President Henry T. McDonald

Institute produced 131,000 tons of butadiene

W.W. Trent was reelected state superintendent of Schools

The government began selling the Tygart Valley Homesteads to settlers

The United Carbon Building appeared on the cover of Pencil Points architectural magazine

The nursing school at Welch Community Hospital ceased operation

Only 118 students enrolled at West Liberty State College

Cornelius Charlton moved with his family to New York City

Braxton County High School opened

Maurice Brooks retired from WVU

Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital closed its nursing school in Parkersburg

Mountain State Hospital merged into Memorial Hospital (now Charleston Area Medical Center)

Charleston National Bank moved to Charleston National Plaza

Franklin Cleckley earned LL.M from Harvard

Franklin Cleckley became first black appointed full professor at WVU

Mike Perkovic died

Julius DeGruyter wrote Drum Beats on the Sandusky

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the East Lynn Lake

Edgewood Country Club developed 600 acres for new 18 hole championship golf course

Members of the Board of Public Works had no voice in preparation of the budget under Modern Budget Amendment

The Morris Family Old-Time Music Festival was founded

More than 500 permits for shale development were issued by the state