Matthew Mansfield Neely

Newton Diehl Baker returned to Martinsburg

Nathan Brackett retired from Storer College presidency

James Callahan received his Ph.D. from John Hopkins University

Donnally Publishing Company sold it to Gazette Company

William Edwin Chilton formed law firm with his brother and William A. MacCorkle

J. R. Clifford elected charter member of the American Negro Academy

Blacks began to capitalize on using their political influence under Republican administration

John W. Davis left teaching to open his own practice

William Dawson served as West Virginia's secretary of state

Dow Chemical Company started in Midland, Michigan

William Edwards published another volume in his three-volume work on butterflies, The Butterflies of North America

Fish and Game Warden Office was created to replace Board of Fish Commissioners

Legislature passed legislation that provided for appointment of state game and fish warden

The UMWA began enlisting the support of well-known labor leaders from across the nation

The Huntington State Hospital was established by the legislature as an insane asylum called the Home for Incurables

Legislature reactivated the position of Immigration Commissioner

Fanny Kemble Johnson moved to West Virginia

Mother Jones joined Eugene Debs's Social Democracy and the Unite Mine Workers of America national strike in Pittsburgh

John P. Hale visited the cave where the Kanawha Madonna was found

Hu Maxwell wrote a history of Hampshire County

Ephraim Morgan earned a law degree from WVU

John Brooks Cottle was born

John Nuttall died in Fayette County

Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company began logging Otter Creek

Research on poultry began at West Virginia University.

Reported 82 routes in operation for the Rural Free Delivery

Samuel Starks was elected as supreme chancellor at the Charleston's Capitol City Lodge No. 1

The American Telephone & Telegraph Company extended a long distance line from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, to Charleston through Point Pleasant

The Parkersburg Conference of United Brethren was renamed the West Virginia Conference

Coal operators of Central Competitive Field agreed to peace with UMWA insisting organizing West Virginia too

Volcano oil boom diminished

A disastrous fire occurred in Volcano

The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey was established by legislature

I. C. White began serving as first director of the West Virginia G&ES

Women were permitted to enter all departments and schools except the military

Jerome Hall Rapmond became president of WVU

Consolidation formed the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company

Albert White was appointed as internal revenue agent

Josiah Keely became principal of Montgomery Preparatory School

Hurry-up Yost began coaching at Ohio Wesleyan

Laura Jackson Arnold was named an honorary member of the Society of the Army of West Virginia

Harrison Ash became chief of police at Thurmond

Baldwin-Felts Agency helped break a strike in the New River Field

Rosa Pelham was forced out of the castle by debt

Sam Black Church is built

Mother Blizzard's family was evicted from their home because of her support of the coal strike

Aaron Bloch succeeded his brother, Samuel, as president of Bloch Brothers Tobacco

Stephen B. Elkins purchased the Morgantown & Kingwood Railroad

James Callahan was appointed chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at WVU

Andrew Carnegie donated $33,000 to Lewisburg Female Institute to build Carnegie Hall

Cecil B. Highland became a stockholder of Clarksburg Exponent Telegram

The Coal & Coke Railway Company sold the Central & Pittsburgh

Watson-Fleming-Camden syndicate acquired the Somerset Coal Company

Voters amended the constitution making Secretary of State an elected office

The Mahan family quit farming the land

Edward Franzheim was probably the most successful architect in West Virginia

The Greenbrier Military Academy was bought by the Greenbrier Presbytery and renamed the Greenbrier Presbyterial School

The Homer Laughlin China Company purchased the Newell Farm and expanded across the Ohio into West Virginia

Nancy Hart died

The state called troops to mining strikes

The state called troops to areas with striking miners

The Hazel Atlas Glass Company was created

The UMWA organized about 7,000 miners in the Kanawha Valley

James H. Nash bought Holly Grove Mansion and made changes

Albert F. Holden and William H. Coolidge inspected 30,000 acres of land on Coppers Fork of Island Creek

Elmer Jacobs designed the parts of Seneca Glass Company building that had fallen to fire

A History of the Valley of Virginia was reprinted

The C&O Railroad was built along the Guyandotte River

Patients other than coal miners were charged $1.59/ day at McKendree Hospital

The West Virginia University School of Medicine was founded in Morgantown

Samuel Alexander McCoy and G. W McCauley bought the Hardy County News from Capt. J. J. Chipley

John Nugent came to West Virginia as a UMWA organizer

Oak Hill's first high school was established by Charles T. Jones and Albert G. Sevy

George Rashid migrated to the United States from Syria

The Pinch Reunion was established by Judge William W. Wertz

The Greenbrier Division of the C&O was completed to Durbin

Potomac State College began operation as the West Virginia Preparatory School

The Rending of Virginia was originally published in Chicago by Mayer & Miller

Frederick Rhead came to America

Charles Ritter married Mabel McClinock

Benjamin Rosenbloom played on the WVU football team

St. Lawrence Boom & Manufacturing Company at Ronceverte began to receive logs from Anthony's Creek by rail

Shannondale Springs was sold to H.C. Getzendanner

The New River Coal strike occurred

The Capitol City Lodge incorporated the Pythian Mutual Investment Fund

A constitutional amendment increased the Supreme Court of Appeals justices to five

The Interurban streetcar line reached Vienna

Vienna opened West Virginia's first country club

Ward Engineering Works built the James Rumsey for the U.S. Engineering Corp

H. Rus Warne and Charles G. Rabenstein established an architect firm

Fairmont Coal Company operated 28 mines and employed 6,067

The community of Addison receives the postal name of Webster Springs

A narrow-gauge railroad arrived at Webster Springs

Davis sold the West Virginia Central & Pittsburg(h) Railroad to the Gould interests

The Medical Society of West Virginia name changed to West Virginia State Medical Association

Charles Ambler received a doctorate in social sciences

Virginian Railway began building a new line

Louis Bennett Sr. unsuccessfully ran for governor

Legislature authorized the purchase of land to serve as training base

Fannie Cobb Carter organized teacher-training department at West Virginia Colored Institute (now West Virginia State University)

William Conley was appointed to unexpired term as West Virginia attorney general

Forest fires destroyed 1.7 million acres

Congress prepared way for establishment of National Forest Reserve in Monongahela

Legislature replaced the Board of Examiners with state Board of Education

4-H movement in West Virginia began in Monroe County

The German Dunkards changed their name to the Church of the Brethren

William Glasscock resigned as internal revenue collector to run for governor

Henry Hatfield became a member of the West Virginia Senate

Herman Kump elected prosecuting attorney in Randolph County

Clark W. May died

William Alexander MacCorkle wrote Some Southern Questions

I. T. Mann served as a delegate to the Republican national convention

Johnson Camden McKinley became a millionaire coal operator

The Mercer Healing Springs Corporation was bought out by Rufus G. Meador

James Miller published History of Summers County

Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller divorced her husband and moved to Boston after discovering his infidelities

West Virginia legislature rejected every mine safety law proposed

President Teddy Roosevelt advocated the formation of a federal agency to investigate mine accidents, teach accident prevention and conduct mine safety research

Margaret Montague published In Calvert's Valley

The Morgantown Weekly Post and the Morgantown Chronicle merged

Anna Jarvis founded Mother's Day

The Church of the Nazarene was established as a national body

There were 2,592 normal school-students

Oak Park opened

Poles became the third-largest immigrant group working in the West Virginia coal mines

Responding to a worldwide epidemic, the Board of Health recommended that West Virginia make provision for the care and treatment of tuberculosis

Ritter Park was originally purchased by the city of Huntington

The last log drive of the St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company

The West Virginia Socialist Party spread to Huntington

E. M. Statler opened the Buffalo Statler

The Wellsburg, Bethany & Washington interurban railway was built

William P. Tams launched the Gulf Smokeless Coal Company in the new Winding Gulf coalfield

An act of Congress provided for a battlefield monument at Point Pleasant

Sistersville General Hospital was founded

A. Fremont Gold and W. Alfred Gold built twin houses in Mason

Vitrolite was manufactured by the Meyercord-Carter Company in Vienna

Fire destroyed the building of the Baptist State Convention

I.C. White wrote an extensive report on the coal resources of Brazil

I.C. White was invited by the Teddy Roosevelt administration to speak at the first White House Conference on conservation

Lenna Yost became the state president of WCTU

Credit unions began appearing in the United States

Bill to create the Department of Agriculture and Commissioner of Agriculture was passed

Alderson Academy's name was changed to Alderson Baptist Academy (now part of Alderson Broaddus University)

Walter Barnes received an M.A. from Harvard

Van Bittner joined the UMWA

The Board of Control was given responsibility to manage the state tuberculosis sanitarium at Terra Alta and the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home in Huntington

A. B. Brooks wrote Forestry and Wood Industries

Fire destroyed the Mountain House

155,092 pounds of chestnuts shipped from one railroad station in West Virginia

William Edwin Chilton was elected U.S. senator by state legislature

Goff Building was finished in Clarksburg

Danske Dandridge wrote American Prisoners of the Revolution

The elective Office of Agriculture Commissioner was created

Population of postal communities on Flat Top Mountain was 300

Reported 83 band mills and 900 circular mills in operation

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

Berkeley Glass Sand Company was incorporated

Benjamin Franklin Gravely began designing a power-driven plow

After changing to Lewisburg Female Institute the name changed to Lewisburg Seminary (later Greenbrier College for Women)

The citizens of Guyandotte voted to become part of Huntington

A new courthouse in Hamlin was constructed

The Anti-Tuberculosis League of West Virginia lobbied a bill through legislature to build a sanitarium

Charles Laws graduated from Leonard Medical College in North Carolina

Governor Glasscock gave Joseph Long the title colonel

Minnie Lowther published The History of Ritchie County

The earliest known road map of West Virginia was produced by a state agency

The Marlinton Opera House began use

Frank McEnteer moved to Clarksburg

Rufus G. Meador constructed a hotel at Mercer Healing Springs

Explosion at No. 20 Mine in Elk Garden killed 23 miners

Congress enacted the Weeks law which authorized the federal government to cooperate with the various states to purchase land for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams

The name of the Morgantown newspaper was changed to Weekly New Dominion

The Blue Creek oil field was discovered along the Elk River

Paden City Pottery was established

Pre-engineering and agriculture programs were added at West Virginia Preparatory School (now Potomac State)

The legislature approved the submission of another prohibition amendment to the people

The Story of a Song: What It Means to Belong to the King was published.

Rat Rodgers started at Bethany College

A streetcar line extension from Charleston to St. Albans was established

A deadlock occurred in the senate when members had to chose the U.S. Senators

The Seneca Glass Company opened a second factory in Star City

The Pythians erected an obelisk at Samuel W. Starks's grave in Spring Hill Cemetery

Clarence W. Watson began serving in the U.S. Senate

Fairview changed its name to Wayne

The West Virginia Press Association became inactive

Wings were added to Woodburn Hall at WVU

Westover was incorporated

Widen was built as a coal company town

Willard Hotel was built in Grafton

Vernon Johnson began serving in the House of Delegates

J. A. Viquesney and H. M. Lockridge organized the Allegheny Sportsmen's Association

Baldwin-Felts Agency attempted to end the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike

Olgebay Hall, now Kirkpatrick Hall, added as a wing at Bethany College

John Bishop published poem "To a Woodland Pool" in Harpers Weekly

Alonzo Brooks received a B.A. in agriculture from WVU

The Bull Moose Special armed train began operation

Union Bank building finished in Clarksburg

William Conley ran unsuccessfully for congressional 2nd district

William Dawson embraced Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose presidential candidacy

Diamond Shoe became the Diamond Shoe and Garment Co., later Diamond Department Store

Samuel Dixon was purged from the New River Company by management from outside

Clarence W. Alvord and Lee Bidgood concluded that the Batts and Fallam group only traveled to Peters Falls

U.S. Supreme Court confirmed North Branch as Potomac main stream

Fairmont State began adopting college curriculum

The Golden Delicious Apple was discovered by Anderson Mullins in Clay County

A Gasoline engine was placed in Howell's Gristmill

Rimfire Hamrick was appointed Webster County game and fish warden

Record floods hit Hardy County

The state called troops to mining strikes

Charles Hodel established himself in Beckley as editor and general manager of the Raleigh Register

Holidays Cove incorporated

Harold Houston returned to Charleston

A large Celtic cross was erected in Coalburg by William S. Edwards to honor the Irish mine workers

Thomas Moore Jackson died

Hubert "Bumps" Myers was born in Clarksburg

Regular services at Job's Temple were suspended

Mother Jones returned to West Virginia to aid union miners on Paint Creek and Cabin Creek

Dr. George A. MacQueen took over the lease and changed Barber Sanatorium to Barber Sanatorium and Hospital

A new double-track tunnel at Kingwood Tunnel was opened

High school at Jane Lew was constructed

Luna Park was built by J. B. Crowley in Charleston

I. T. Mann was a candidate for the U.S. Senate

The Apollo Theater was built in Martinsburg

Harry F. Bryd sold the Martinsburg Journal to Max von Schlegell

Louis Marx began working for Ferdinand Strauss

John McGraw was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention

John McGraw's Bank of Grafton failed

Prohibitionist John McWhorter served as chairman of the West Virginia Ratification Federation

John Raine became president of the Meadow River Lumber Company

The Minnehaha Springs Improvement Company was formed

The Minter Lumber Company was founded by William E. Minter

The Monongahela Railroad was completed to Pittsburgh

Margaret Montague published Linda

Reported 223 different newspapers were publishing in West Virginia

Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly supported Eugene V. Debs for president

Ogden's company had acquired the Parkersburg Daily Sentinel

Ida Reed published her autobiography My Life Story

The Pallottine Missionary Sisters came to West Virginia

William MacCorkle became active in the Salvation Army

Edward Stifel built Edemar mansion

The Charleston Interurban Railroad was built to St. Albans

The Huntington tobacco warehouse opened

T. C. Townsend was elected as Kanawha County's prosecuting attorney

Pittsburgh's flood commission called for a dam on the Tygart

Miners Hospital No. One changed its name to Welch Hospital No. One

The College of Physicians and Surgeons became an independent program at WVU

WVU had 46,500 books in the library

Carter Woodson received a doctorate at Harvard

Tibbs Run Reservoir began providing water to city of Morgantown

Anna Gates was elected first woman to the House of Delegates

Benjamin Rosenbloom was reelected to Congress

Cousin Abe Lilly ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate

William Conley defeated Alfred Taylor in the gubernatorial race

Howard Gore sought the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate

Henry D. Hatfield was elected U.S. Senator

Herman Kump was elected judge of the 20th judicial circuit

Democrats began majority in both houses of state legislature

Voters rejected a proposed amendment to create office of lieutenant-governor

Clarence Meadows was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates

The 28-year-old Jennings Randolph ran for Congress in the 2nd District, losing to Republican incumbent Frank Bowman

Homer Holt beat Sumers H. Sharp in the gubernatorial election

Clarence Meadows was elected state attorney general

W. W. Trent was reelected state superintendent of Schools

Nell Walker first elected to House of Delegates

Clarence Meadows was reelected state attorney general

Ephraim Morgan ran for the U.S. Senate

W. W. Trent was reelected state superintendent of schools

Herman Kump unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senator

William Revercomb was elected U.S. Senator

Cleve Bailey was defeated by Edward G. Rohrbough for seat in Congress

Robert C. Byrd was elected to the House of Delegates

Roy Lee Harmon was elected to the House of Delegates

Frank Haymond was elected to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Jennings Randolph was defeated for reelection to Congress

Cleve Bailey won back his seat in Congress

Chauncey H. Browning was reelected prosecuting attorney in Logan County

Robert C. Byrd was reelected to the House of Delegates

Rush Holt unsuccessfully sought a seat in the U.S. Senate

A. James Manchin was elected as a Democrat to the House of Delegates

Okey Mills was elected Raleigh County sheriff

Harley Staggers was elected to Congress

W.W. Trent was reelected state superintendent of Schools

Robert C. Byrd was reelected to the House of Representatives

A constitutional amendment provided for full two-month legislative sessions one year, then a 30 day budget session the next year

State voters approved legislator's salary at $1,500