Lawrence William Nuttall

C&O sold at foreclosure, reorganized, and renamed C&O Railway

Alston Dayton graduated from WVU

Stephen Elkins became a citizen of West Virginia

Aretas Fleming was appointed judge of the second judicial circuit

Congress provided money to have the remnants of the old dams cleared on the Guyandotte River

The hog-stealing incident and trial between the Hatfields and McCoys occurred

Hamilton Hatter completed the teacher training program at Storer College

The Irish had cleared the land on Irish Mountain and built a small log church

WVU created a "chair of law and equity" establishing the College of Law

Virgil Lewis became the principal of the Buffalo Academy in Putnam County

Herbert Chester Greer was born

Russell Montague moved from Boston to Greenbrier County

The property containing the spring was sold to Andrew S. Pence.

Taylor County seat was moved to Grafton

The West Virginia Baptist State Convention was first held

Albert White graduated from Marietta College

Thomas Anshutz painted Steamboat on the Ohio

B&O Railroad only hauled four percent of Tidewater-bound soft coal

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company began buying land in West Virginia

George Sturdevant and John W. Johnson purchased the factory at Brush Creek Falls in Mercer County

Michael Benedum married Sarah Lantz

"Athens" name of new post office and village

William Coley founded the Parsons Advocate newspaper

John William Davis began teaching law at Washington & Lee

Democrats slipped into minority status in West Virginia

According to legend, underground Elk (River) was formed when a hole opened in the stream bed and simply swallowed the river

Thaddeus Fowler first visited West Virginia

Edward Bates Franzheim designed the Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling

The Trinity United Methodist Church was organized in Glenville

Grantsville was incorporated

The H.K. Bedford began Pittsburgh-Charleston service

William Jennings Bryan was defeated as free silver presidential candidate

Hamilton Hatter became the first principal of Bluefield Colored Institute (Bluefield State College)

Homer Laughlin incorporated as Homer Laughlin and Company

The original Seneca Glass Company building was built

William Leigh painted his portrait of Sophie H. Colston

The Moundsville Daily Echo became a daily publication

Louis Marx was born

John McGraw first served as a member of the Democratic National Committee

James Miller served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention

The Seneca Glass Company moved from Ohio to Morgantown

The South Branch Intelligencer merged with the Hampshire Review

Melville Davisson Post's short story collection The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason made him immensely popular.

The second period of Republican dominance began

Telephone switchboards were installed at Morgantown

The Webster Springs Hotel was built

Agnes Westbrook Morrison was admitted to the bar

WVU hires its first full-time coach

Matthew Whittico graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania

Matewan challenged Williamson as county seat of Mingo County

Carter Woodson graduated from Douglass High School

Hurry-up Yost played tackle on the WVU football team

The Shenandoah River flooded

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

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

Frederick H. Rhead joined the Laughlin Company

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

Southern tract of present Calvin W. Price State Forest was sold to the state by New River Company

Carr China Company went out of business

Statewide circulation of the Charleston Gazette peaked at 86,000

Consolidated Bus Lines employed 337 individuals and operated 100 buses

Phoebia Moore died

Phyllis Curtin made her debut with New York City Opera

John Warren Davis retired as president of West Virginia State

Julius DeGruyter wrote The Kanawha Spectator: History of the Kanawha Valley

The Dunbar-South Charleston Bridge opened as a toll bridge

Gunner Gatski earned All-Pro honors in football

Perry Gresham became president of Bethany College

Perry Gresham wrote Disciples of the High Calling

John Ailes became editor of the Hampshire Review, Hampshire County

Hardy County Heritage Weekend began at Mill Island

Another 400 acres was added for the Harpers Ferry National Monument

Ken Hechler became the associate director of the American Political Science Association

Jean Lee Latham wrote The Story of Eli Whitney

The Library Commission moved to Charleston from Morgantown

The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers left West Virginia

A fire damaged the Martinsburg Journal building

"Speedy" Estep was killed racing a stock car in Columbus, Ohio

Davis Grubb wrote Night of the Hunter

Eldora Nuzum joined the Elkins Inter-Mountain

The West Virginia State Poultry Association annual meeting moved to Moorefield

Distribution of Salk polio vaccine

Chuck Ripper moved to Huntington as art director for the Standard Printing & Publishing Co.

Rat Rodgers was admitted to the College Football Hall of Fame

Eleanor Roosevelt stopped serving as U.S. representative to the United Nations

Alex Schoenbaum's restaurant chain was named Shoney's

WVU played in the Sugar Bowl

West Virginia became one of the first sates to finance development of park facilities by selling bonds

WKNA TV when on air in Charleston as channel 49

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Kanawha Valley was established

Oscar Nelson died

The initial accreditation attempt for Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) failed

The Baptist State Convention began to meet at Hilltop

William J. Wallace became president of West Virginia State College

Enrollment at West Virginia State College was at 837 students

WJLS-FM Beckley became WBKW-FM

William B. Axtell became president of West Virginia Institute of Technology

Katherine Johnson began working with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics as a “computer” doing complex analysis and calculations

Toni Stone joined the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League