Politics

Peter Cline Buffington was elected Huntington's first mayor

Edward Jefferson Willis founded the Winchester Female Institute in Winchester

B&O lines reached Columbus, Lake Erie and Pittsburgh

Commencement Hall added as a wing to Old Main at Bethany

Democrats gained control of West Virginia's government

Jefferson County seat moved back to Charles Town after being in Shepherdstown

The Jefferson County seat moved back to Charles Town after temporarily being relocated to Shepherdstown

Waitman Willey's service in the U.S. Senate ended

Voters approved both a constitutional amendment eliminating the loyalty requirement for voting and a call for a new constitutional convention

Joseph Diss Debar ended his work of recruiting labor and landowners from abroad

Hyre D. Clark of Buckhannon was the first graduate of Fairmont State

John P. Hale became mayor of Charleston

Morris Harvey married Rosaltha Dickinson

The Independent was moved from Winfield to Huntington by O.G. Chase

Frank Hereford began the first of three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives

Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad purchased the land on which Hinton was built

The Flick Amendment was passed which ended political restriction on ex-Confederates in West Virginia

Jedediah Hotchkiss explored the extended Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad

Huntington was founded by Collis P. Huntington

John J. Allen died

James Madison Jackson died

John Jay Jackson Sr. served as a member of the commission to ascertain West Virginia's share of the Virginia debt

The Great Fire in Chicago burned up Mother Jones' dressmaking business and her possessions

The KKK virtually disappeared in West Virginia after voting privileges were restored to former Confederates

Daniel Lamb unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate

Mannington was chartered as a town by the legislature

The federal government conducted a survey of the river

B&O operated 1,700 miles of railroad

Joseph Beury and others opened Mill Creek Coal & Coke, first mine in Mercer County

Arthur Boreman organized a relief effort to assist victims of Ohio River flood

Belle Boyd divorced Swainston

W.E.R. Byrne was admitted to the bar

The Kanawha & Michigan Railway was completed on north side of Kanawha River in Charleston

Moses W. Donnally bought the Chronicle

Charleston National Bank founded as a national bank

Sydenham Herford died

William and Tom Anderson stopped running the Easton Roller Mill

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

Stephen Elkins was elected executive chairman of the National Republican Committee

Glenville High School moved into a house

The Hampshire Review was started by C.F. Poland

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians had groups in Rowlesburg, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Coal Valley and Charleston

The Quinnimont iron furnace was closed

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

James Kay returned to West Virginia

The Lincoln County Feud began when Paris Brumfield killed Boney Lucas

The first multistate gazetteer including West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware appeared

Hu Maxwell wrote a history of Tucker County

Mennonites erected their first meetinghouse in West Virginia in Pendleton County

James Miller left as superintendent of Summers County schools

James Miller became Summer County prosecuting attorney

C. F. Millspaugh published the first section of American Medicinal Plants

New Cumberland became the permanent county seat of Hancock County

Earl Oglebay started working in a Cleveland iron ore firm

Large flood occurred on the Ohio

Samuel and Violet Bryant came to America from England

The Ohio River Railway was built through Sistersville

The first golf club in America was organized at Oakhurst at White Sulphur Springs

Telephone switchboards were installed at Huntington

Telephone switchboards were installed at Moundsville

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg was extended to Tucker County

The Ohio River Railroad reached Vienna

The first West Virginia Historical Society ceased

I.C. White began working for the U.S. Geological Survey

Emanuel Willis Wilson succeeded into the governorship

The Ohio River Railroad was completed

The Ohio River flooded at Wheeling