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
Matthew M. Neely was elected clerk of the House of Delegates
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
Vernon Johnson began serving in the House of Delegates
