Cousin Abe Lilly

West Virginia had 100,000 farms on 8.9 million acres

Charles Ambler served as sheriff of Pleasants County for two years

B&O added the Monongahela River Railroad (Fairmont to Clarksburg)

There were 600 Baptist churches in West Virginia

Raleigh County Republicans launched the Raleigh Herald

Berkeley County population was 19,469

First women on the Bethany College board of trustees

Jesse Bloch entered the family Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company

Alonzo Brooks completed a business course at West Virginia Wesleyan College

Capon Springs developer William H. Sale died

Cass was founded by West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company

West Virginia Pulp & Paper built paper mill at Covington, Virginia

The Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) completed its Greenbrier Division into Pocahontas County to harvest red spruce on Cheat and Back Allegheny mountains

Moses Donnally sold the Charleston Gazette

Davis Child Shelter, an orphanage, was established in Charleston

First sewer lines were installed in Clarksburg

Coal production had doubled

Little evidence of the Coal River locks and dams remained

West Virginia chapter of the Colonial Dames of America was organized

Only remnant populations of deer and turkey were noted

West Virginia's median age was below national average at 20.3

Doddridge County population was 13,689

William Edwards wrote a book on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays

Fairmont Times was first published by Gen. C. L. Smith and O. S. McKinney

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

Garnet High School was founded with a class of 12 black students

Howard Gore graduated from WVU with a degree in agriculture

Harrison County held a population of 27,690

Nancy Hart and husband Joshua Douglas settled in Webster County

Morris Harvey founded the Fayette National Bank

William "Coin" Harvey moved to Arkansas to begin building a retreat and vacation resort

The population of Helvetia reached 500 people

The first time the word "hillbilly" was used in print, in a New York newspaper

Reported 1,062 native Hungarians in West Virginia

Water power began being used for the production of electricity in West Virginia, at Kanawha Falls

Census reported 2,458 Indians living in West Virginia

There were 18 farms of the settlers on the Irish Tract

Jackson County's population rose to 19,000

Don Redman was born in Piedmont

The Kanawha Falls were augmented by a low dam

Oil and natural gas in high quantities was found in Lewis County

Railroad replaces streams as the chief means of transporting logs to sawmills

The Benwood Ironworks grew into a large steel mills

James Miller ceased to be Summers County prosecuting attorney

James Miller ran unsuccessfully for state auditor

Steam and electric fans made larger mines possible

The completion of the C&O Railway's Greenbrier Division to Marlinton put the Minnehaha Springs within reach of travelers

Fairmont's first electric streetcar line built

Morgantown population was at 1,895

The Morgantown Glass Works began production

A developer began selling oceanfront lots for $25 in Myrtle Beach

The anticlinal theory of oil and gas was applied along Sand Fork of the Little Kanawha

The Toledo & Ohio Central gained control of the Kanawha & Michigan and the Kanawha & West Virginia Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad began purchasing the N&W stock

E.M. Carney purchased the Pence Springs property

Kanawha County had the largest population with 54,696 residents.

The largest city in the state was Wheeling with a population of 38,878.

The Lilly family began ownership of the Ruffner Hotel

St. Joseph's Hospital was founded by Patrick J. Donahue

Samuel and Violet Bryant got their first jobs on showboats

James H. Brown's obelisk was erected at Spring Hill Cemetery

Interurban railway operations began in Huntington

Tyler County's oil and gas boom peaked

Wayne County population was at 23,619

Wings were added to Woodburn Hall at WVU

Weston had municipal water plant, sanitary and storm sewer systems and brick paved streets

West Virginia Pulp & Paper began constructing a sawmill in Cass

A nursing school was founded at Wheeling Hospital

The Collins Colliery company store burned

Matthew Whittico moved to Keystone

Buffalo, elk, gray wolf and passenger pigeon had all disappeared from West Virginia

The second courthouse at Winfield was built

Wirt County's population peaked at 10,284

Carter G. Woodson became principal of Douglass High School

The first record of the ballad "The Wreck on the C&O" came out

Charles Ambler received an A.B. in social sciences

J. G. Bradley came to West Virginia

Sturdevant and Johnson constructed new buildings

Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad was built

Name changed from Thomas Hospital to Charleston General Hospital

Barber Sanatorium constructed by Dr. Timothy L. Barber Sr.

Railroad from Greenbrier Valley to Bartow completed

Roy Bird Cook graduated from high school

John Cornwell was Democratic nominee for governor

Davis & Elkins College founded by Southern Presbyterians

Rebecca Davis wrote autobiography Bits of Gossip

William M. O. Dawson ceased to be chairman of West Virginia Republicans

John Dickinson became the first director of the Kanawha Coal Operators Association

Chestnut blight introduced to America

Fairmont West Virginian became daily

Millard Giesey and Frederic Faris designed the West Virginia Building at the St. Louis World's Fair

Pennsylvania investors opened a second glass sand plant on the east side of Warm Springs Ridge

The Glenville Democrat was first published

Capt. Greene acquired the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet Co.

Railroads reached the Guyandotte River area

The National Carbon Company began operating a graphite plant in Anmore

The Huntington Dispatch began

Frankie Masters was born in Pleasants County

The C&O Railroad was constructed from Huntington to city of Logan

The Logan County coal industry began its boom

Gannett's gazetteer was the first to be devoted exclusively to West Virginia place names and locations

Wheeling Metal and Manufacturing Company opened in Glen Dale

Sandy Mason moved back to Charleston to start the Mason School of Music and Fine Arts

John McGraw became chairman of state Democratic party

Thomas Gaylord McKell died

John McWhorter became a judge of West Virginia's 12th judicial circuit

James Miller was elected as a judge of the Circuit Court of the Ninth West Virginia Circuit

A fifteenth dam was built on the Monongahela

The daily edition Morgantown Evening Post stopped publication

The Morgantown Chronicle was founded by Hu Maxwell

The Mount St. George mansion was completed

John Nugent was elected president of UMWA District 17

Herschel Ogden purchased the Wheeling Intelligencer

Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly spearheaded a drive that defeated a proposal to built a Carnegie Library in Wheeling

Pence Springs water was presented the highest award in its class.

Benjamin Rosenbloom was admitted to the West Virginia bar

Henry Schmulbach built the Schmulbach Building in Wheeling

Official addressed the question of a flag for the West Virginia building at the St. Louis World's Fair

John Swint was ordained to the priesthood

William P. Tams went to work for Samuel Dixon in the New River coalfield

Henry Gassaway Davis built the Coal & Coke Railway

Sam Vinson died

John T. McGraw expanded the Webster Springs Hotel

A president who was not the state superintendent of school was elected to head of the West Virginia Education Association

Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke was elected to be in the first group of Rhodes Scholars

Matthew Whittico renamed his paper the McDowell Times

J. G. Bradley came to Clay County

Hurry-up Yost's University of Michigan team defeated WVU 130-0

Romeo Freer returned to Ritchie County and was appointed Harrisville postmaster

Paul Wissmach reorganized his company as Ohio Valley Glass Company

A state prohibition amendment was ratified during a general election.

The first Agriculture Commissioner was elected

Henry Hatfield was elected governor

Howard Sutherland was elected to Congress

John Cornwell won the support of Socialist voters for governor

Anna Gates was elected first woman to the House of Delegates

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

Benjamin Rosenbloom was reelected to Congress

Homer Holt began working with Governor Kump on the state's finances following the stock market crash

Homer Laughlin China Company suspended operations in East Liverpool, Ohio

Frank Hutchison had recorded about 32 songs for the OKeh Record Company

The stock market crash hurt the profits of Interwoven Mills

Weirton Steel Corporation merged with Michigan Steel of Detroit and M.A. Hanna Steel of Cleveland to form National Steel Corporation

The McWhorter cabin was moved to Jackson's Mill

Stock market crash forced the James Produce Company into bankruptcy

John L. Dickinson moved Kanawha Valley Bank into new building at the former site of the capitol building

Tom Kromer began traveling the country by freight train

The Logan County coal industry began to decline

The Citizen's National Bank was absorbed by the Charleston National Bank

I. T. Mann's business empire collapsed at the onset of the Depression

Walter Martens completed the work for Homeland, a skillfully designed Colonial-revival residence in Lewisburg

Bernard McDonough specialized in building gas stations in the greater Parkersburg area

The Department of Mines had 25 inspectors and three inspectors at large

Bath Square became Berkeley Springs State Park

The Owens Bottle Company merged with Illinois Glass Company to become Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Maceo Pinkard enlisted blues diva Bessie Smith for Pansy

Ruth Rohde represented Florida's Fourth District

St. Joseph's administrators decided to build a new hospital

The Raine Lumber Company ceased logging in Seneca State Forest

Ada "Bricktop" Smith married Peter Duconge

Ernest Weir formed the National Steel corporation with Weirton Steel as its flagship

Grace Martin Taylor visited Blanche Lazzell in Provincetown, Massachusetts

Commercial mining in Webster County produced approximately 100,000 tons of coal

The railroad at Webster Springs was discontinued

The Archives and History library, state archives and museum moved to the new state capitol

WSAZ was purchased by the Huntington Publishing Company

The property of the Youghiogheny Forest Colony was purchased by Frank Reeves

John Zontini rushed an average per carry of 27 yards

A chapel that also functioned as the superintendent’s office was built at Woodlawn

T. G. Nutter filed a lawsuit regarding a restrictive covenant that prohibited African-Americans from purchasing a lot in a Huntington subdivision.