William Alexander MacCorkle

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

Virgil Lewis was admitted to the bar

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

Thomas Anshutz painted The Ironworkers' Noontime

Main building of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum at Weston was completed

Thomas Anshutz painted Ironworkers' Noontime

Raleigh County Index established by Edwin Prince

Joseph Beury and brothers began to buy tracts of coal land

Preston County Brookside Resort was built

Jimmy D. Johnson established water-powered mill at Brush Creek Falls

William Edwin Chilton passed the bar

The International Sunday School Association was organized in West Virginia

U.S Census published the first statistical compilation on West Virginia forests

Two-thirds of West Virginia still covered by old forest

Fairmont State had more students than any normal school

Post No. 1 of Guard Army of the Republic was organized in Martinsburg

Devil Anse Hatfield led the armed party rescuing Johnse Hatfield from the brothers of Rose Anna McCoy

Hinton was incorporated

Reported only 250 people lived in Hollidays Cove

Jedediah Hotchkiss began publishing a monthly magazine, The Virginias: a Mining, Industrial and Scientific Journal Devoted to the Development of Virginia and West Virginia

Census listed 8 Irish families totaling 43 persons occupying Irish Mountain

Jews lived in most of the developed areas of the state

George Latham was appointed as supervisor of the census for West Virginia's First District

William Leigh began studying under Hugh Newell at Maryland Institute

Hu Maxwell graduated from Weston Academy

John McGraw entered the practice of law

Agnes Reeves Greer was born

Orthodox Christians from Russia, Greece and Ottoman Empire began to settle in coalfields of West Virginia

St. Mary Carpatho-Russian Orthodox church was founded in Bluefield

There were 400 sawmills in West Virginia

Nathan Scott was elected to the Wheeling City Council

The Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Wheeling was erected by the Soldiers Aid Society

West Virginia's first telephone exchange was placed in service in Wheeling

The Funkhouser barn was built in Hardy County

Charles Ward began working full time at his own business

The National Guard was activated for service in areas of labor unrest, specifically to quell a strike of coal miners at Hawks Nest

Construction began at a point on the B&O Railway

The mental hospital at Weston was completed

Wheeling had 30,737 people

Emanuel Wilson was elected speaker of the House of Delegates

Booker T. Washington married his first wife, Fannie Smith, at the African Zion Baptist Church

West Virginia contracted with Storer College in educating African-American teachers

Congress gave $5,000 to Smithsonian to conduct excavations relating to prehistoric Mound Builders

George Atkinson wrote After the Moonshiners

West Virginia's first general banking law repealed

Legislature elected Johnson N. Camden to the U.S. Senate

Nathan Goff Jr. served as secretary of navy under President Hayes

The West Virginia Board of Health was established

West Virginia Board of Health was established

George Imboden became the president of the Fayette County Commission

Jacob Beeson Jackson began service as governor

John Jacob was appointed Ohio County circuit judge

The lock and dam on the Elk River was removed

Joseph Long moved to Wheeling

Henry Mathews returned to Lewisburg

C.F. Millspaugh received a medical degree from the New York Homeopathic Medical College

The Norfolk & Western Railway was a result of a merger between the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad and Shenandoah Valley Railroad

Daniel Purinton became vice-president and acting president of West Virginia University.

William Rosecrans served in Congress from California

Johann Stifel died

Frederick Douglass spoke on the campus of Storer College

The current Monroe County courthouse was built in Union

Alexander Wade published A Graduating System for Country Schools

West Union was incorporated

The first West Virginia State Fair was held at Wheeling Island

Albert White moved to Parkersburg

Emanuel Wilson finished his service in the House of Delegates

Thomas Davis moved with his family to Huntington

Sensational articles of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud by Theron C. Crawford published in New York

B&O hauled 31% of nation's Tidewater-bound soft coal

Bluefield incorporated as a town

Bank of Bramwell opened

Matthew Clair graduated from Morgan College in Baltimore

Downtown streets of Clarksburg lit up by electricity

Cribs and booms located to direct logs into Coal River's main channel

Elkins was founded

Jack Glasscock managed Indianapolis Hoosiers baseball team for part of the year

The membership of Post No.1 of General Army of the Republic peaked at 3,161

The first major outbreak of the gypsy moth occurred

The Weekly Advertiser became a daily publication as the Advertiser

Harold Houston graduated from Charleston High School

Kenova founded by L. T. Peck

The West Virginia Bureau of Labor was created by state legislature

Daniel Lucas began serving as a justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

I.T. Mann had an apprenticeship at Greenbrier Valley Bank

Alexander Martin left DePauw University

Hu Maxwell wrote Idyls of the Golden Shore

The first oil was discovered in Monongalia County

Navigable slack water was extended to the Morgantown area

Anticlinal theory of oil and gas location was developed by I. C. White of WVU

The anticlinal theory of oil and gas location was first tested in Mannington

Pennzoil was founded

An iron truss bridge was built over the New River

West Virginia apple production was at 4.5 million bushels

William Nelson Page was president of Gauley Mountain Coal

Charles Ritter moved to West Virginia

Sheltering Arms Hospital saw its first patient

All telephone exchanges in northern West Virginia were interconnected

The legislature renamed the militia the West Virginia National Guard

William Luke opened a pulp mill and incorporated the West Virginia Paper Company

Albert White was appointed as internal revenue agent

Emanuel Wilson advocated antitrust legislation and increased immigration into the state

Major timbering began in Wyoming County

Carrie Edwards married Abraham L. Williams

Romeo Freer elected circuit court judge

Marmaduke Dent won election to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Thomas Riley was elected attorney general

Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University) accepted its first male students

Cyrus Thomas published Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology.

Newton Diehl Baker received law degree from Washington and Lee University

New bridges were constructed in Harpers Ferry and some of the remaining Bollman trusses were converted to highway use

Evening Mail became morning paper after George Warren sold to John B. Floyd

John Cornwell passed the bar exam

John Dickinson became the first director of the West Virginia Bankers Association

John Hardy was hanged at Welch for killing a man in a card game

Pennsylvania Glass Sand Company began mining Oriskany sand in the same geological formation in Pennsylvania about 80 miles north of Morgan County, West Virginia

The Easton Roller Mill replaced buhrs with steam power and rollers

A high school was established in Harrisville

Only about half of state miners participated in a nationwide strike by UMWA

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians peaked in West Virginia with 647 men in 12 Hibernian divisions

Elmer Jacobs set up practice in Morgantown

John Dickinson became cashier of the Kanawha Valley Bank

Kenova was incorporated as a town

The city of Welch was incorporated

John McWhorter received a law degree from WVU law school

The B&O branch in Morgantown extended to Connellsville, Pennsylvania

The first two nurses at Wheeling City Hospital Training School received their diplomas

Livia Simpson Poffenbarger married George Poffenbarger.

The first Presbyterian Church was formed in Williamson.

Rt. Rev. Patrick J. Donahue was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling

Telephone switchboards were installed at Fairmont

The Big Moses gas well was drilled

Clarence W. Watson married Minnie Lee Owings

Kenova was chartered

The Historical Society was given larger quarters for its museum and library at the Capitol

The National Guard was activated for service in areas of labor unrest

Westvaco opened headquarters in New York City

Albert White managed the U.S. Senate campaign of Stephen B. Elkins

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

Cousin Abe Lilly organized the Lilly Reunion Association

The Logan County coal industry began to decline

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.