Frederick Hurten Rhead

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

Matthew M. Neely opened a Fairmont law office

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

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

Harry Stansbury contacted high schools across the state to participate

The Belle Alkali Company started a plant near Belle

The Warner-Klipstein Chemical Company started

A Clarksburg newspaper became the Exponent-American

First land for the Monongahela National Forest acquired

Legislation gave authority to Forest, Game and Fish Warden to establish refuges for protection of wild game and birds

Reinforced concrete began with C.A.P Turner

Monument erected at Fort Lee site to mark the beginnings of Charleston

Fostoria Glass's popular "American" pattern was fist designed and patented

West Virginia Bureau of Mines reported 1,479 hand-loading miners employed at Gary

The Mother's Pension Law was enacted

The Board of Health was replaced by the Department of Health

Local timbering brought a narrow-gauge railroad to Helvetia

The word "hillbilly" appeared in the title of a Harper's Monthly travel article, "Hobnobbing with Hillbillies"

A 5-acre tract of land at Jackson's Mill was purchased by the Monongahela Power Company

William "Keg" Purnell was born in Charleston

Ann Baker was born

Mother Jones testified before another congressional committee

The New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company operated a series of drift mines at Layland, Fayette County

Legislature passed bill to empower cities and towns to levy taxes for public libraries and reading rooms

A monument to General Joseph Lightburn was placed at Vicksburg National Battlefield Park

The Marcus family relocated to Farmington

Marietta Manufacturing Company began operation in Point Pleasant

The Concrete Steel Bridge Company built the Alderson bridge across the Greenbrier River

Legislation called for provision for preventing underground mine fires and requiring foremen and fire bosses to pass state examination and receive state certification

Margaret Montague published Closed Doors

Ephraim Morgan was appointed to the Public Service Commission by Governor Hatfield

Descendents of Hunter John Myers left the Sleepy Creek Mountain area

A member of the Church of Nazarene moved to Mannington and started a church in his house

Greasy Neale graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College

Greasy Neale played with the Canton (Ohio) Bulldogs

Herschel C. Ogden became the owner of the Parkersburg News

The legislature removed Workmen's Compensation from the Public Service Commision

Dr. Burke offered the state of West Virginia property for use as a tuberculosis sanatorium

Rat Rodgers lettered in football

Benjamin Rosenbloom served as state senator from Wheeling

The state legislature passed a primary law that made it difficult for third parties to be on the ballot

The West Virginia legislature first imposed the corporate excise tax

Charles Ward died

H. Rus Warne designed the West Virginia Building at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco

H. Rus Warne designed a Masonic Temple Building

Walter B "Watt" Powell moved to Charleston

The West Virginia Coal Association was formed

Legislation changed the name of West Virginia Colored Institute to West Virginia Collegiate Institute (now West Virginia State university)

State women's suffrage amendment was reintroduced

Carter G. Woodson published The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861

Lenna Yost became the state legislative chair of the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs

Thomas Davis resigned from National Guard

Vernon Johnson was elected the youngest Speaker of the House of Delegates

The Kessinger Brothers started performing on radio station WOBU (WCHS)

A new city council was seated in Hinton

Guyan Valley High School was built in Pleasant View

Kyle McCormick became publisher of the Princeton Observer

A granite monument marking Zackquill Morgan's grave was erected

Lawrence Nuttall donated his plant collection to the WVU Herbarium

The American Viscose Corporation started rayon production in South Parkersburg

Giuseppe Argiro of Fairmont was credited with creating the pepperoni roll

1,099 cases of smallpox were reported in West Virginia

The state's milk control program began

The federal court case United Mine Workers of America v. Red Jacket Consolidation Coal and Coke Company affirmed the use of injunctions against union organizing efforts

Blind Alfred Reed wrote "The Wreck of the Virginian"

Walter Reuther moved to Detroit

The boundaries of the Monongahela National Forest were extended to include the Smoke Hole

Legislature acted to acquire additional areas for state parks

Festus Summers studied at Columbia University

The William Byrne Elk River tales began a regular feature in the West Virginia Wild Life Magazine, and were later published as Tale of the Elk

Sam Taylor ended his state police career after losing a leg in an on-duty motorcycle accident

W.W. Trent became president of Alderson-Broaddus College

A planing mill in Parson became a woolen mill

Consolidation Coal Company became the largest independent bituminous mining company in the nation

Ernest T. Weir took over as chief executive officer of National Steel

I. C. White stopped serving as first director of the West Virginia Geological & Economic Survey

Lenna Lowe Yost became the first woman to serve on the West Virginia Wesleyan College Board of Trustees

Gas leak and fire destroyed much of the glass factory, but the company resumed a year later

Vernon Johnson was reelected as Speaker of the House of Delegates