Nathan Cook Brackett

Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan removed Averell from command for performance during Shenandoah Valley Campaign

Old Virginia banks transformed into national banks under federal banking legislation

First National Bank of Parkersburg became first national bank in West Virginia

Union troops burned down the resort buildings at Blue Sulphur Springs

Arthur Boreman married Laurane Tanner Bullock

Alexander Boteler's house burned on orders of Union Gen. David Hunter

Belle Boyd married Samuel Wylde Hardinge Jr.

Battle of Summit Point

Battle of Charles Town

John Dickinson was captured and kept prisoner at Fort Delaware

Joseph Diss Debar began serving in the legislature from Doddridge County

Joseph Diss Debar was named the first West Virginia commissioner of immigration

Construction of the Easton Roller Mill began

Allegheny College was burned by Union troops

William Ryland White was named first state superintendent of free schools

Stephen Elkins was admitted to the Missouri bar

Fort Moore was built for Capt. W. T. Wiant's home guards

Natural gas was used to produce carbon black for printing ink

John Imboden contracted typhoid fever and was relieved of command

Jacob Jackson returned to Parkersburg

Mudwall Jackson was promoted to brigadier general to command the forces at the Battle of Droop Mountain

The Logan Wildcats were active in the Shenandoah Valley campaign

The Richardson's map was the first map of the new state of West Virginia

The Morgantown Weekly Post was established by Henry M. Morgan and Nimrod Nelson Hoffman

Governor Boreman ordered convicted felons in West Virginia be imprisoned in the Ohio County Jail

Bazel Childers developed a system for fracturing the oil bearing rock to increase production.

Henry Ragland was captured by Union troops near Lurray, Virginia.

The first newspaper in Ripley, the Jackson Democrat was established

Volcano became an oil boom town

The Volcanic Oil & Gas Company was formed

Kellian Whaley was a delegate to the Republican National Convention

Laura Jackson Arnold wrote to Abraham Lincoln strongly expressing her support of the Union

Newton Diehl Baker returned to Martinsburg

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

Matthew M. Neely enrolled at WVU

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