Marmaduke Dent

Only 490,000 tons of coal were produced in West Virginia

Dr. James Dye was born in Chloe

Delta Tau Delta revived its Bethany Chapter

Sisters established a benevolent school for poor children in Parkersburg

Joseph Diss Debar involved West Virginia in the Paris Exposition

Easton Roller Mill began operation

Stephen Elkins served as New Mexico's attorney general

Palatine was incorporated

Work on Grafton National Cemetery began

Grantsville was named for Ulysses S. Grant

Hamlin was chosen as county seat of Lincoln County

Thomas Harris served in the House of Delegates

The Clarksburg Independent School District was established

Mother Jones's husband, George, and their four children died in the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis

George Latham became U.S. Consul to Australia

Joseph Lightburn became a Baptist preacher

The Little Kanawha Navigation Company let contracts for the first four locks and dams

The initial railroad map of West Virginia was published by the B&O Railroad

Henry Hyannis purchased the old Nadenbousch distillery in Martinsburg

John McCausland returned to Mason County after fleeing the country at the end of the Civil War

Dr. James Edmund Reeves and 32 colleagues established the West Virginia State Medical Association, orginally the Medical Society of West Virginia

The West Virginia Penitentiary opened

A monument commemorating the Confederate dead was erected at Romney Indian Mound Cemetery

Trustees of West Liberty sold the school to the state

I. C. White became one of the first 6 students to enter the Agricultural College of West Virginia (WVU)

William Wilson graduated from Columbian College

West Virginia legislature authorized the establishment of normal schools to train teachers

Uncle Dyke Garrett married Sallie "Aunt Sallie" Smith

Celebration staged in Parkersburg after ratification of the 15th Amendment

Railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington located the western terminus of Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in present Huntington

Cheat River declared a public highway

Claymont Court mansion (Jefferson County) was advertised for sale by Bushrod Corbin Washington's grandson

Henry Gassaway Davis helped lead the Democrats in for their control over the state

Joseph Diss Debar produced The West Virginia Hand-Book and Immigrant's Guide

Alexander Donaghho came to Parkersburg

Fayetteville population jumped to 6,647

Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler began his map-making trips

Camp Straton United Confederate Veterans began controlling Logan County polices

German immigration increased during the Franco-Prussian War

John Hale started the first steam ferry at Charleston

John Hale was a leader in having the state capital moved to Charleston

Literary Hall was built in Romney

The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind was established in Romney

John Henry began working as a steel driver during the construction of the Big Bend (Great Bend) Tunnel

The state was reported to have 2,270 schools

Investment in manufacturing began increasing

Immigrants from Switzerland settled in the area of Holly River

George Imboden moved to Fayette County

Jacob Jackson became Wood County's prosecuting attorney

A proposed waterway between Tidewater Virginia and Rocky Mountains was proposed to Congress by Waitman T. Willey

The capital was moved from Wheeling to Charleston

Henry Clay Dickinson became president of Kanawha Valley Bank

James Kay arrived in Charleston

John Kenna was admitted to the bar

Crosscut saws replaced the ax as the preferred tool for felling trees

Marshall College added a new brick addition at the west end of the existing building

John Nuttall bought coal lands on New River

The Flick Amendment was introduced

Petersburg became the county seat of Grant County

Henry Ragland moved to Wayne County.

Alexander Reynolds began serving in Egypt

Literary Hall was built by the Literary Society in Romney

Cecil Clay of Philadelphia began timber purchases in Greenbrier Valley

William Stevenson was defeated for second term as governor

There were 178 tanneries in West Virginia

The Daily Sentinel became the Taylor County newspaper

The town of Volcano was founded

Wayne County population was at 7,852

WesBanco was founded as German Bank

Legislature voted for additional buildings at Weston State Hospital

The Potomac River flooded

The Shenandoah River flooded

The Mountain Boy steamboat was destroyed by river ice at Cincinnati

Joseph Beury shipped the first coal from the New River Coalfield

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway arrived on the south side of Kanawha River in Charleston

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway arrived on south side of Kanawha River

Charles B. Webb started the weekly Kanawha Chronicle

C&O forced into default from national depression

The legislative act to esbablish a "branch state normal school" in the Mercer County community of Concord was amended and stipulated that the school would be transferred to Princeton if arrangements for land and a building were not completed within one year

William Dawson moved to Kingwood

Three acres of property was donated to the state and ready for use in the fall by Glenville State College

East Liverpool, Ohio, raised $5,000 for the Laughlins to start a pottery to make white ware

The House of Delegates had 65 delegates

Legislature exempted certain businesses from taxes because of the economic panic

German Jews arrived in Charleston and formed a congregation

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

Kanawha Valley Bank was the only bank in Charleston to survive the financial panic

The first West Virginia atlas appeared

The eastern and western section of the C&O main line were joined near Hawks Nest

A city waterworks was established in Martinsburg

Natural gas was put in many of downtown buildings in Martinsburg

The Martinsburg & Potomac railroad came to Martinsburg from Williamsport, MD

Sandy Mason was born in Charleston

The C&O Railroad was completed opening the New River Gorge to the coal and timber industry

The Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company was formed.

Daniel Purinton received a B.A. degree from WVU

An explosion caused the Ritchie Mines to be closed

The C&O was completed at Thurmond

William Thurmond was commissioned to survey land on the north side of New River

Isaiah Welch came to McDowell County to evaluate natural resources

Isaiah Welch surveyed the mineral reserves of the Pocahontas No. 3 coal seam

The Woodburn Seminary at WVU burned

The Western Maryland Railway extended to the C&O Canal

Separate rooms for black patients were added at Weston State Hospital

Archibald Campbell repurchased the Wheeling Intelligencer

Lilly Freer died in Nicaragua

Date of the first official burial at Spring Hill

The name of the Winchester Female Institute was changed to Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University)

Johnson Camden and his partners quietly sold to Rockefeller's Standard Oil

Stephen Elkins married Hallie Davis Elkins

Aretas Fleming left the House of Delegates

Remains from the Foreman party were transferred to Mount Roase Cemetery

Oil was first struck in Glenville

The Grange had 20,000 lodges and 800,000 members in the country

The Lewisburg Academy reopened after closing during the Civil War

Courthouse in Hamlin was constructed

The Pennsboro & Harrisville Railroad was built

The House of Delegates impeached Treasurer John Burdett

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians started a division in Wheeling

The capital was moved from Charleston to Wheeling

Harriet Jones graduated from the Women's Medical College of Baltimore

Other mills were destroyed by floods on the Jug of the Middle Island Creek

James Kay married Julia Ballintyne

Wheeling became known as the Nail City because of La Belle Ironworks

The legislature was required to met biennially

President Alexander Martin left WVU

A bill providing for better ventilation in the mines had been first introduced in legislature

The Morrow family moved to Pittsburgh

Johnson Newlon Camden joined John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust

The Sentinel was founded as the Parkersburg Weekly Sentinel by Robert Hornor.

Reported 14 baptisms at St. John's Chapel

The first band sawmill began operation in West Virginia

Nathan Scott moved to Wheeling

Alexander Wade was elected Monongalia County school superintendent

Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Institute

Cassville was chartered

Ernest T. Weir was born

I.C. White earned a masters degree at WVU

Woodlawn Cemetery began as a private family burial ground

Romeo Freer elected circuit court judge

Thomas Riley was elected attorney general

William MacCorkle was elected governor

William M. O. Dawson elected governor

Nathan Scott was reelected to the U.S. Senate

Henry Gassaway Davis was running mate to the losing presidential candidate, Democrat Alton Parker