Henry Mason Mathews

The B&O leased the Northwestern Virginia Railroad

A troupe presented "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at The Atheneum

Belle Boyd was sent to Mount Washington School in Baltimore

Archibald Campbell moved to Wheeling

William Edwards erected the first cannel coal oil works

Thomas English moved from Logan County to Tazewell, Virginia

Glenville was incorporated

Grafton was chartered

Hamilton Hatter was born in Jefferson County

Andrew Gardner Jackson was born

George Smith Patton moved to Charleston and organized the Kanawha Riflemen

Daniel Lucas graduated from University of Virginia

Mannington was chartered as a town by the Virginia legislature

The city of Mason was incorporated

The Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy moved to a new building

Oglebay Park Mansion Museum property was purchased by George W. Smith

Piedmont was chartered

Francis Pierpont helped found the Fairmont Male and Female Seminary.

A B&O station was located at Cairo

The Walton post office moved to Droddyville

The first church was built in the St. Joseph Settlement

William Stevenson was elected a member of the Pennsylvania legislature

Ralph Swinburn was ordained a Baptist minister

Wheeling Hospital moved to the Michael Sweeney Mansion

The Intelligencer was acquired by Archibald Campbell

The town of Ceredo founded by Northern abolitionist, Eli Thayer

John Floyd was appointed U.S. Secretary of War

B&O Railroad improved transportation in Harrison County

The Northwestern Virginia Railroad opened from Grafton to Parkersburg

Albert Jenkins became a U.S. Congressman

John McCausland graduated from Virginia Military Institute

The Northwestern Virginia Railroad built a station where Oil Spring Run flows into Goose Creek

The Ceredo Crescent was established

George Summers and wife purchased the Glenwood estate in Charleston

A large building and five cottages were built at Sweet Springs

Traveller was born

The Virginia Conference approved he creation of the United Brethren Parkersburg Conference

Peter Van Winkle served as the president of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad

Academy Hall was built for West Liberty

The Gauley Bridge opened for traffic

The old Grafton House was built

Henry Gassaway Davis was elected to the House of Delegates

Granville Davisson Hall was elected West Virginia secretary of state

Kellian Whaley was reelected to Congress from West Virginia

The constitutional convention adjourned

Daniel Farnsworth participated in the Constitutional Convention

Charles James Faulkner was a voice of restraint as a delegate to West Virginia's Constitutional Convention

Stephen Elkins was elected to represent New Mexico Territory in Congress

Aretas Fleming won election to the House of Delegates

John Kenna was elected Kanawha County prosecuting attorney

Emanuel Wilson was elected to the state senate

W. H. H. Flick elected prosecuting attorney for Pendleton and Grant counties

George Imboden was elected to the House of Delegates

John Kenna was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

W. H. H. Flick was an unsuccessful candidate for the West Virginia Supreme Court

The great railroad strike originated among B&O workers in Martinsburg

The national railroad strike began in Martinsburg

Romeo Freer and John Kenna traveled West Virginia urging voters to select Charleston as the state capital

Booker T. Washington married his first wife, Fannie Smith, at the African Zion Baptist Church

West Virginia contracted with Storer College in educating African-American teachers

Congress gave $5,000 to Smithsonian to conduct excavations relating to prehistoric Mound Builders

George Atkinson wrote After the Moonshiners

West Virginia's first general banking law repealed

Legislature elected Johnson N. Camden to the U.S. Senate

Nathan Goff Jr. served as secretary of navy under President Hayes

The West Virginia Board of Health was established

West Virginia Board of Health was established

George Imboden became the president of the Fayette County Commission

Jacob Beeson Jackson began service as governor

John Jacob was appointed Ohio County circuit judge

The lock and dam on the Elk River was removed

Joseph Long moved to Wheeling

William MacCorkle married Belle Goshorn

C.F. Millspaugh received a medical degree from the New York Homeopathic Medical College

The Norfolk & Western Railway was a result of a merger between the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad and Shenandoah Valley Railroad

Daniel Purinton became vice-president and acting president of West Virginia University.

William Rosecrans served in Congress from California

Johann Stifel died

Frederick Douglass spoke on the campus of Storer College

The current Monroe County courthouse was built in Union

Alexander Wade published A Graduating System for Country Schools

West Union was incorporated

The first West Virginia State Fair was held at Wheeling Island

Albert White moved to Parkersburg

Emanuel Wilson finished his service in the House of Delegates

Thomas Davis moved with his family to Huntington

Musician Henry Reed was born.