John Joseph Kain

There were 250 churches in West Virginia

Capt. John M. Burns established a sawmill at Burnsville

Jefferson and Berkeley confirmed as West Virginia by U.S. Congress

Henry Gassaway Davis received charter to build the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railway

Dickinson-Shrewsbury partnership dissolved by the courts after partners died

Private school for black children, in Parkersburg, was converted to a public school

J. N. Boyd began publication of Vedette in Fairmont

Three men were hanged on the "hanging tree" at Fort Boreman

Freedmen's Bureau began operation in West Virginia

Grantsville was laid out

Grant County was formed from Hardy County

Morris Harvey and brother-in-law received a land grant from West Virginia of 1,000 acres on the west side of New River

The Radical-dominated legislature enacted the Voters' Registration Law

The Buckhannon home of George Latham was purchased

A new shop complex was built in Martinsburg, with roundhouse

Elizabethtown and Moundsville were consolidated under Moundsville

Free schools were established in Moundsville

The multiflora rose was introduced to the eastern U.S. as rootstock for ornamental roses

The North Bend superintendent's residence was built by Christopher Douglas

Samuel Price became a director of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

George Lemon died

Sumner School became West Virginia's earliest black public school

H.M. Calhoun was born

Samuel W. Starks was born in Charleston

Sumner School became a part of the segregated public school system

Ceredo was incorporated

The West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway was chartered under the name of the Potomac & Piedmont Coal & Railroad Company

Archibald Campbell left the Wheeling Intelligencer

William H. Davis became a teacher for Malden’s Black children

Classes began for 70 students at the "branch state normal school" at Concord

Robert A. Spencer acquired the paper and renamed in the Raleigh Register.

Bluefield had two newspapers, the Bluefield Telegraph and the Daily Journal

The Journal ceased daily publication

F.R. Swann began published Charleston Evening Mail

Clarence Wayland Watson founded the Briar Hill Coal Company

Justus Collins opened Collins Colliery and the Greenbrier Coal & Coke

William Conley earned a law degree from WVU

John Dickinson moved to Charleston from Malden

Samuel Dixon and partner organized the MacDonald mine

The first Douglass High School graduated its first high school class

Legislature provided for two levels of teacher certificates

Aretas Fleming returned to practicing law

Henry Harrison Hunter won blue ribbon at World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago for quality of sand he mined and processed

Graceland was completed

The Great Bend Tunnel was lined with brick arching

Joseph Harvey Long arrived in Huntington to buy the Herald

John Jeremiah Jacob died and was buried in Indian Mound Cemetery

Chicago World's Fair has a West Virginia state exhibit

John Q. Dickinson moved Kanawha Valley Bank into a substantial new building

Virgil Lewis was awarded an M.A. in history from WVU

The N&W Railroad built its main line along the Big Sandy River

Joseph Long moved to Huntington to buy the Herald

Daniel Lucas left the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Uncle Jack McElwain won a fiddle contest at the Chicago World's Fair

Bill McKell built his home at Glen Jean

Johnson Camden McKinley moved to Wheeling

C. F. Millspaugh left WVU to become curator of botany at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

High-quality semibitumious coal from Davis' Big Vein was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair

Sistersville became the nation's premier oil-field boom town

Henry Schmulbach opened his Wheeling inclined railway to riders

William Edwin Chilton became secretary of sate

Pittsburgh's William Flaccus and Son bought a tannery along the Buckhannon River

Telephone switchboards were installed at Bluefield

The city of Parsons was incorporated

Charles Ward's boilers were showcased at the Chicago World's Fair

Ward Engineering Works built the Mascot for the U.S. Engineering Corp

Clarence W. Watson joined his father and brothers in the mining enterprises

Chitwood Hall was completed at WVU

The earliest Whipple Company Store was constructed in Glen Jean for Collins Colliery Company

The country began an economic depression

The Woodson family moved to Huntington