Medal of Honor

Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Normal Institute in Virginia and returned to teach Sunday school at the African Zion Baptist Church

Edward Willis moved the Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University) to Clarksburg

Cumberland Valley Railroad reached Martinsburg

Joseph Beury left Quinnimont

James Putney died

Henry Koontz died and Easton Roller Mill was taken over by the Anderson family

The Grange had 378 lodges and 10,700 members in West Virginia

Jedediah Hotchkiss' Virginia: A Geographical and Political Summary was published for the Virginia legislature

The impeachment trial of John Burdett in the Senate removed him from office of Treasurer

Maurice Sullivan sold his land atop Irish Mountain to J. J. Kane for a church and cemetery

Jackson's Mill was sold outside the Jackson family after the death of Catherin Jackson White

Kudzu was first introduced in the U.S. at Philadelphia trade exposition as an ornamental

George Wesley Atkinson wrote The History of Kanawha County

George Wesley Atkinson wrote The History of Kanawha County

The new Berkeley Hotel opened in Martinsburg

John McGraw received a law degree at Yale University

The New Dominion was established by Julian Fleming and William Jacos

The second courthouse in Elizabethtown was built

New Cumberland's first newspaper, The Independent began publication

Samuel Price unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate.

Daniel Purinton married Florence A. Lyon.

William MacCorkle came to West Virginia to teach in Pocahontas County.

Nathan Scott became the president of Central Glass Company

Robert Simmons was a delegate to the Republican national convention

The Wheeling firm, Wheeling Centre Tannery, became known as J. G. Hoffman and Sons

Alexander Wade held his first exams

A cabin built by "Uncle Doc" Smith replaced the original Watters Smith cabin in southern Harrison County

Originally called "New Hall," Woodburn Hall was completed at WVU

I.C. White began working for the Pennsylvania Geological Survey

Akro Agate Company was relocated to Clarksburg

Mary Atkeson taught English for a year at the University of Missouri

Elkins and Wheeling claimed basketball supremacy

Izetta Brown moved to West Virginia as bride to William Gay Brown

Pearl Buck graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College

Sunday edition was added to Clarksburg Telegram

Golden Delicious apple was discovered on Mullens farm

Phil Conley graduated from WVU

Artemus Cox moved to Charleston

Doddridge County's first roads were paved

Extension home economics agents were placed in certain counties to further efforts

Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act for federal funding to develop agricultural extension program

State prohibition began

The West Virginia Federation of Labor reported 152 local craft unions with 31,315

Ella Holroyd graduated with honors from the Cincinnati Conservatory

The Homer Laughlin Company made semi-vitreous and white granite dinner, hotel and toilet wares

Harley Kilgore earned his law degree from WVU

Harley Kilgore taught school for a year

State's economic focus had shifted to southern West Virginia

The local Catholic population built a school in Weston

The West Virginia Library Association was organized

Duval High School was built in Griffithsville

Akro Agate moved to Clarksburg

The Marlinton Opera House was sold due to default on deeds of trust

Frank McEnteer was appointed to superintend the building of the multi-span concrete arch bridge in Clarksburg

Willow Glen, or McKinley's Palace, construction began

The Yost Law became effective

A hotel building on the hill above Minnehaha Springs was completed

Dwight Morrow joined the banking firm J. P. Morgan and Company

Leonard "Lynn" Davis was born

James H. Boone installed light bulbs in Organ Cave

Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company ceased logging Otter Creak

Charles Boldt started manufacturing glass in Huntington

The legislature established a minimum age of 10 for incarceration at Pruntytown

The Ohio Valley Refining Company began operating in St. Marys

There were 40 local offices elected from the Socialist Party

Weirton Steel employment was 5,348

A monument to the Confederacy was erected in Hinton

The USS Huntington was on the West Coast

The Vitrolite factory was fully completed

A nursing school was established at what is now Welch Community Hospital

The Jones brothers of Red Star Coal & Coke Company donated land to the Baptist State Convention

Wheeling Hospital grew to 225 beds