Virgil A. Lewis

Kentucky County became the state of Kentucky

Harman Blennerhassett inherited the family estate

Daniel Boone moved to Charleston

Joseph Doddridge became first minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Trans-Allegheny Virginia

Congress authorized the building of two national arsenals for the storage of arms

Logan County was first settled

Bishop Asbury held sessions of the Greenbrier Conference at Rehoboth Church

Two of the Morris daughters were killed by the renegade Simon Girty

The Ohio Company went into demise

The Salem Seventh Day Baptist Church was founded in West Virginia

Sutton was settled by Adam O'Brien

The first hotel at Sweet Springs was built by William Lewis

White hunters began to settle in Tyler County

The first gristmill was built on Big Sandy Creek

Mad Anthony Wayne left the House of Representatives when his seat was declared vacant due to irregularities

U.S. raised small army with Gen. "Mad Anthony" Wayne in command

C&O sold at foreclosure, reorganized, and renamed C&O Railway

Alston Dayton graduated from WVU

Stephen Elkins became a citizen of West Virginia

Aretas Fleming was appointed judge of the second judicial circuit

Congress provided money to have the remnants of the old dams cleared on the Guyandotte River

The hog-stealing incident and trial between the Hatfields and McCoys occurred

Hamilton Hatter completed the teacher training program at Storer College

The Irish had cleared the land on Irish Mountain and built a small log church

WVU created a "chair of law and equity" establishing the College of Law

Herbert Chester Greer was born

Lawrence Nuttall moved to Nuttallburg

Russell Montague moved from Boston to Greenbrier County

The property containing the spring was sold to Andrew S. Pence.

Taylor County seat was moved to Grafton

The West Virginia Baptist State Convention was first held

Albert White graduated from Marietta College

Thomas Anshutz painted Farmer and His Son Harvesting

Aaron and Samuel Bloch ran a small grocery and dry goods store in Wheeling and began producing chewing tobacco

Anne Dudley moved to New York to marry Rev. L. E. Bates

William Edwards published a three-volume work on butterflies, The Butterflies of North America

A log Catholic Church was erected in Summers County

Jacob Jackson was elected mayor of Parkersburg

James Kay returned to Quinnimont to construct coke ovens at Hawks Nest

The B&O Railroad connected Weston to Clarksburg

William MacCorkle graduated from Washington and Lee University

James Miller graduated from Concord Normal School (Concord University)

William L. "Billy" Mitchell was born

Seventh-Day Adventist teachings first appeared in West Virginia in pamphlets

The U.S. Supreme court first used the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment in Strauder v. West Virginia

West Virginia's first telephone line was strung in Wheeling

William O. Trevey was born in Virginia

Oscar Nelson was born

A disastrous fire occurred in Volcano

Booker T. Washington returned to Hampton Institute as a teacher

George Atkinson wrote Prominent Men of West Virginia

Harry Bandholtz graduated from West Point

Electricity came to Martinsburg

Many Bloch Brothers employees joined the Tobacco Workers Union

Marshall University started botany classes

Charles Frederik Millspaugh suggested need for an arboretum at WVU

John J. Cornwell and brother William purchased the Hampshire Review

Stephen Elkins built his home, Halliehurst, in Elkins

Jack Glasscock won the National League batting title, hitting .336

William Glasscock became the clerk of the county circuit court

Nathan Goff Jr. bought the Clarksburg Telegram

The Lewisburg Academy changed its name to Greenbrier Military Academy

Capt. Gordon C. Greene bought the steamboat H.K. Bedford

The Herald began publication

Thomas Lovett built the Hilltop House in Harpers Ferry

Reported 236 native Hungarians in West Virginia

Congress enacted the McKinley tariff to stimulate the domestic production of tin plate

Jehovah Witnesses built the New Light church

The original line of the Norfolk & Western from Kenova to Mingo County was completed

Construction on municipal water and sewer systems began in Weston

Virgil Lewis began long career of historical writing

The Lincoln County Feud ended during the winter

The Hatfield and McCoy Feud ended

Joseph Long and partner founded the Wheeling News

The Middlesex Knitting Company was established in Martinsburg

Federal building in the Richardsonian Romanesque architecture style was built in Martinsburg

A Mennonite meetinghouse was built near Lost River

Commercial mining in Mingo County began with arrival of the N&W

A post office was established at Minnehaha Springs

Fairmont Electric Light and Power began operating a plant on the Monongahela River

A vast tank field was established in southeast Morgantown due to rapid expansion of oil and gas industry

A coal mine opened at Beechwood along the B&O line

Michael L. Benedum entered the industry as an employee of Standard Oil

The N&W acquired the Scioto Valley Railway

Herschel Ogden founded the Wheeling Daily News

Herschel Ogden married Mary Frances Moorehouse

Earl Oglebay, John D. Rockefeller and David Z Norton formed partnership, Oglebay Norton Co.

Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company erected a band sawmill at Sutton.

Parsons population was 84.

Daniel Purinton left WVU to become president of Denison College.

William Ritter began a logging operation in Mercer county

The statue of Patrick Henry at Monongalia Courthouse was moved indoors

The McKinley Tariff passed including duties on tin plate

Howard Sutherland moved to Washington as an official in the Census Bureau

Telephone switchboards were installed at Grafton

Aretas B. Fleming became governor of West Virginia

A springhouse was constructed at Webster Springs

C. F. Millspaugh published Agricultural Experiment Station bulletins on West Virginia's Weeds

Midway and Lazearville were annexed to Wellsburg

Weston had electric lights

The site of Williamson was still farmland

There were 6,247 residents in Wyoming County

Newton Diehl Baker got B.A. degree from John Hopkins University

Waitman Barbe wrote book Ashes and Incense

West Virginia & Pittsburgh Railroad came through Burnsville

Bill Byrne was elected prosecuting attorney of Braxton County

West Virginia Pulp & Paper built paper mill at Luke, Maryland

William Edwin Chilton became chairman of the state Democratic Party

John W. Davis graduated from Washington and Lee

Dingess Tunnel was built

The Center Point oil pool was opened by the South Penn Oil

The Elkins Inter-Mountain was established

The Glenville Pathfinder was first published

Nathan Goff Jr. was appointed a federal judge in the U.S. Fourth Circuit

Thomas Harris wrote Assassination of Lincoln: A History of the Great Conspiracy

The C&O completed a roundhouse with 17 engine stalls and a car shop of 40 cars in Hinton

Lily Jackson called for West Virginia women to contribute to the state's exhibit at the Chicago Worlds Fair

Harriet Jones left the state hospital to open a women's hospital in Wheeling

John K. Small first discovered Kates Mountain Clover

The N&W Ohio River Bridge was completed

William Leigh left the Royal Academy in Munich

St. Paul's became the first Lutheran church in Charleston

The Fostoria Glass Company opened in Moundsville

McDowell Countians voted to move the county seat to Welch

The Berkeley Springs springs were developed as the town water supply

Wheeling City Hospital opened to patients

City Hospital Training School for Nurses in Wheeling opened as the first nursing school in West Virginia

Syrian and Lebanese immigrants founded St. George Orthodox Church in Charleston

Fetterman was incorporated

George Peterkin published Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church in West Virginia.

Graham Hamrick received patents for his mummification formula.

Melville Davisson Post earned a law degree from West Virginia University

WVU's plant collection was put into storage

The Polecat well was drilled

Wilbur "Lefty" Cooper was born in Davis Run

Charles W. Ferguson II was born

Webster Springs was incorporated as Addison

C. F. Millspaugh published Agricultural Experiment Station bulletins on West Virginia's Weeds

Wheeling Hospital grew to 90 beds

Robert A. Spencer acquired the paper and renamed in the Raleigh Register.

Bluefield had two newspapers, the Bluefield Telegraph and the Daily Journal

The Journal ceased daily publication

F.R. Swann began published Charleston Evening Mail

Clarence Wayland Watson founded the Briar Hill Coal Company

Justus Collins opened Collins Colliery and the Greenbrier Coal & Coke

William Conley earned a law degree from WVU

John Dickinson moved to Charleston from Malden

Samuel Dixon and partner organized the MacDonald mine

The first Douglass High School graduated its first high school class

Legislature provided for two levels of teacher certificates

Aretas Fleming returned to practicing law

Henry Harrison Hunter won blue ribbon at World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago for quality of sand he mined and processed

Graceland was completed

The Great Bend Tunnel was lined with brick arching

Joseph Harvey Long arrived in Huntington to buy the Herald

John Jeremiah Jacob died and was buried in Indian Mound Cemetery

Chicago World's Fair has a West Virginia state exhibit

John Joseph Kain left the Diocese of Wheeling to become Archbishop of St. Louis

John Q. Dickinson moved Kanawha Valley Bank into a substantial new building

The N&W Railroad built its main line along the Big Sandy River

Joseph Long moved to Huntington to buy the Herald

Daniel Lucas left the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Uncle Jack McElwain won a fiddle contest at the Chicago World's Fair

Bill McKell built his home at Glen Jean

Johnson Camden McKinley moved to Wheeling

C. F. Millspaugh left WVU to become curator of botany at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

High-quality semibitumious coal from Davis' Big Vein was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair

Sistersville became the nation's premier oil-field boom town

Henry Schmulbach opened his Wheeling inclined railway to riders

William Edwin Chilton became secretary of sate

Pittsburgh's William Flaccus and Son bought a tannery along the Buckhannon River

Telephone switchboards were installed at Bluefield

The city of Parsons was incorporated

Charles Ward's boilers were showcased at the Chicago World's Fair

Ward Engineering Works built the Mascot for the U.S. Engineering Corp

Clarence W. Watson joined his father and brothers in the mining enterprises

Chitwood Hall was completed at WVU

The earliest Whipple Company Store was constructed in Glen Jean for Collins Colliery Company

The country began an economic depression

The Woodson family moved to Huntington