Presbyterians

Cornstalk was born

Elizabeth Cummins Jackson was born

Andrew Lewis was born in County Donegal, Ireland

Western Land was offered in payment to Revolutionary War veterans

William Haymond surveyed streets and lots

Zackquill Morgan became the proprietor of an "ordinary" (Tavern or inn)

Zackquill Morgan had Morgantown surveyed on his land

The recorded owner of Organ cave was John Gardner

The British accepted Virginia's claim to the Ohio Valley territory in the Treaty of Paris, which ends the Revolutionary War

The Tomlinson family returned to the Grave Creek area

John Thornton Augustine Washington was born

John Beckley became the first clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives

Bryan Fairfax declined the title to become Lord Fairfax

Hughes' detractors unsuccessfully attempted to have Hughes River renamed "Junius River"

John Stuart built a large stone house in Fort Springs

John Augustine Washington was born

The Treaty of Fort Harmar was signed

First mentioned in Lewis Summers journals

Robert Clendenin died in Ohio

Henry Harvey graduated from University of Pennsylvania

Dr. John McElhenney moved to Lewisburg

Mary Payne died

Joseph and David Ruffner successfully drilled for brine and erected the first salt furnaces, the Salines

The Ruffner brothers built the first commercial furnace at the Great Buffalo Lick

James Swan was imprisoned for debt in France

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin outline a national transportation plan

John Tyler became governor of Virginia

Lewis Wetzel died at Rosetta, near Natchez

Gov. Cabell bought 4,400 acres of land inCabell County

Clarksburg chosen as site of first federal court west of Alleghenies

Romney's Literary Society was founded

President James Monroe appointed John George Jackson a federal judge

The first steamboat tried to get up over Red House Shoals

Western commerce was crushed by the Panic

The Lewis County seat became Weston

Oil was produced by George Lemon in Wirt County

Jonas Smith recorded the first plat of the town

The Robert Thompson was the first steamboat to attempt to get to Charleston

The Literary Society was founded

Henry Ruffner began teaching ancient languages at Washington College (Washington and Lee University)

Richard Henry Lee Washington died

Thomas Beall died

Weston became the permanent name of the town

The first class at Bethany College included international students

William Tompkins struck large flow of gas while drilling a salt well a short distance above Burning Springs

Alexander Campbell argued for public education at the education convention in Clarksburg

Scarcity of deer first noted in present West Virginia

John Hale attended Mercer Academy in Charleston

The Northwestern Academy was established

Work commenced on the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

The Jackson family gristmill was constructed at Jackson's Mill

Nathaniel Kuykendall operated a stagecoach and mail delivery service on the Northwestern Virginia Turnpike

Robert Simmons settled in Parkersburg

The Staunton Turnpike was placed under control of the Board of Public Works

Portion of the Staunton Turnpike were open to wagon travel

George Summers was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Elizabeth Tomlinson died

Charles Ward was born

John Thornton Augustine Washington died

James O. Watson married Matilda Lamb

Charles Ellet Jr was appointed chief engineer of the Fairmont Bridge

Richard Whelan was consecrated as the second bishop of the Diocese of Richmond

Waitman Willey was elected clerk of the Monongalia County Court

Martinsville was officially renamed New Martinsville

Joseph McMurran became principal of Shepherd College

The French Creek Academy was established

Alexander Wade became the principle of Morgantown schools

Charles Ward arrived in Charleston from England

Booker T. Washington enrolled at Hampton Institute in Hampton

Lewis William Washington died

The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway was incorporated

William Wilson returned to Charles Town to practice law

Legislature passed West Virginia's first general banking law

The present building of Malden's African Zion Baptist Church began after contributions of land, money and materials by Gen. Lewis Ruffner

West Virginia's new constitution continued the education of black children in segregation

Blacks began forming groups in response to inequality.

Commissioners in McDowell County ordered a new courthouse be constructed out of logs

Joseph Beury and wife moved to New River

Alexander Boteler ran unsuccessfully for Congress

Brickyard Bend (New Cumberland) shipped 11 million bricks via Ohio River

West Virginia's new constitution abandons the township system and reverts back to the Virginia county government system

Democrats gained political supremacy after voting restrictions on former Confederates ceased

Joseph Diss Debar supported the Liberal Republicans to come to terms with the ex-Confederates

Anne Dudley toured New England with Harpers Ferry Singers to raise funds for Myrtle Hall

New constitution expanded support of public education

New constitution changed elections to two-year cycle

Secretary of State was made an appointed office

Provisions of the Flick Amendment was added to the state constitution

John P. Hale purchased Fort Lee's original lot and blockhouse in Charleston

Glenville State College began as branch of the State Normal School

Noah Speer started the Hancock Works

The second courthouse was completed in Glenville

Vote by citizens brought the Grant County seat permanently to Petersburg

John Hale built the Hale House hotel in Charleston

Legislature faced the task of modifying laws to conform to the newly adopted constitution

West Virginia Legislature grew to 89 persons

Weston's first public school building was erected

The McDowell County seat was located at Peeryville (now English)

The town of Milton was laid out

The hamlet of Mud in Lincoln County, an unincorporated community, said to have been founded

Construction began on more refineries in Parkersburg

Normal schools were established in Glenville, Athens, and Shepherdstown

Pence Springs was developed as a resort.

Voters in Greenbrier Country elected Samuel Price as their representative to the West Virginia constitutional convention.

Legislature designated Shepherd as one of the state's normal schools

Robert Simmons was a delegate to the Republican national convention

The cave at Sinks of Gandy was described by David Hunter Strother

The Universalist Meeting House at Fork Ridge in Marshall County erected an additional larger building

Charles Ward began operating his own pipe and fittings business

The Western Maryland Railway extended to Hagerstown

I.C. White earned an undergraduate degree at Agricultural College of West Virginia (WVU)

Waitman Willey spoke eloquently for suffrage for African-Americans

Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University) accepted its first male students

Cyrus Thomas published Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology.

Newton Diehl Baker received law degree from Washington and Lee University

New bridges were constructed in Harpers Ferry and some of the remaining Bollman trusses were converted to highway use

Evening Mail became morning paper after George Warren sold to John B. Floyd

Democratic Supremacy in West Virginia ended

John Cornwell passed the bar exam

John Dickinson became the first director of the West Virginia Bankers Association

John Hardy was hanged at Welch for killing a man in a card game

Pennsylvania Glass Sand Company began mining Oriskany sand in the same geological formation in Pennsylvania about 80 miles north of Morgan County, West Virginia

The Easton Roller Mill replaced buhrs with steam power and rollers

A high school was established in Harrisville

Only about half of state miners participated in a nationwide strike by UMWA

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians peaked in West Virginia with 647 men in 12 Hibernian divisions

Elmer Jacobs set up practice in Morgantown

John Dickinson became cashier of the Kanawha Valley Bank

Kenova was incorporated as a town

The city of Welch was incorporated

John McWhorter received a law degree from WVU law school

The B&O branch in Morgantown extended to Connellsville, Pennsylvania

The first two nurses at Wheeling City Hospital Training School received their diplomas

Livia Simpson Poffenbarger married George Poffenbarger.

Rt. Rev. Patrick J. Donahue was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling

Telephone switchboards were installed at Fairmont

The Big Moses gas well was drilled

Clarence W. Watson married Minnie Lee Owings

Kenova was chartered

The Historical Society was given larger quarters for its museum and library at the Capitol

The National Guard was activated for service in areas of labor unrest

Westvaco opened headquarters in New York City

Albert White managed the U.S. Senate campaign of Stephen B. Elkins

Charles Ambler received an A.B. in social sciences

J. G. Bradley came to West Virginia

Sturdevant and Johnson constructed new buildings

Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad was built

Name changed from Thomas Hospital to Charleston General Hospital

Barber Sanatorium constructed by Dr. Timothy L. Barber Sr.

Railroad from Greenbrier Valley to Bartow completed

Roy Bird Cook graduated from high school

John Cornwell was Democratic nominee for governor

Rebecca Davis wrote autobiography Bits of Gossip

William M. O. Dawson ceased to be chairman of West Virginia Republicans

John Dickinson became the first director of the Kanawha Coal Operators Association

Chestnut blight introduced to America

Fairmont West Virginian became daily

Millard Giesey and Frederic Faris designed the West Virginia Building at the St. Louis World's Fair

Pennsylvania investors opened a second glass sand plant on the east side of Warm Springs Ridge

The Glenville Democrat was first published

Capt. Greene acquired the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, Big Sandy & Pomeroy Packet Co.

Railroads reached the Guyandotte River area

The National Carbon Company began operating a graphite plant in Anmore

The Huntington Dispatch began

Frankie Masters was born in Pleasants County

Cousin Abe Lilly was elected prosecuting attorney of Raleigh County

The C&O Railroad was constructed from Huntington to city of Logan

The Logan County coal industry began its boom

Gannett's gazetteer was the first to be devoted exclusively to West Virginia place names and locations

Wheeling Metal and Manufacturing Company opened in Glen Dale

Sandy Mason moved back to Charleston to start the Mason School of Music and Fine Arts

John McGraw became chairman of state Democratic party

Thomas Gaylord McKell died

John McWhorter became a judge of West Virginia's 12th judicial circuit

James Miller was elected as a judge of the Circuit Court of the Ninth West Virginia Circuit

A fifteenth dam was built on the Monongahela

The daily edition Morgantown Evening Post stopped publication

The Morgantown Chronicle was founded by Hu Maxwell

The Mount St. George mansion was completed

John Nugent was elected president of UMWA District 17

Herschel Ogden purchased the Wheeling Intelligencer

Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly spearheaded a drive that defeated a proposal to built a Carnegie Library in Wheeling

Pence Springs water was presented the highest award in its class.

Benjamin Rosenbloom was admitted to the West Virginia bar

Henry Schmulbach built the Schmulbach Building in Wheeling

Official addressed the question of a flag for the West Virginia building at the St. Louis World's Fair

John Swint was ordained to the priesthood

William P. Tams went to work for Samuel Dixon in the New River coalfield

Henry Gassaway Davis built the Coal & Coke Railway

Sam Vinson died

John T. McGraw expanded the Webster Springs Hotel

A president who was not the state superintendent of school was elected to head of the West Virginia Education Association

Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke was elected to be in the first group of Rhodes Scholars

Matthew Whittico renamed his paper the McDowell Times

J. G. Bradley came to Clay County

Hurry-up Yost's University of Michigan team defeated WVU 130-0

Romeo Freer returned to Ritchie County and was appointed Harrisville postmaster

Paul Wissmach reorganized his company as Ohio Valley Glass Company

Roger Howdyshell bought Marble King

John Sayles and Maggie Renzie arrived in West Virginia to produce a film about the Matewan Massacre

Kathy Mattea got a record contract with Mercury Records

Willow Glen "McKinley's Palace" was added to the National Register of Historic Places

No known granny-midwives were practicing in West Virginia

State Supreme Court ruled on La Rue v La Rue, which created the concept of equitable distribution of marital assets

Main Street Morgantown was organized

West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Mountain Stage began as a radio show hosted by Larry Groce and George Daugherty

Waterford Park (later Mountaineer) racetrack closed

The "Big John" dragline scoop came to the Hobet 21 surface mine in Boone and Lincoln counties

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake was published by Atlantic Monthly Press/Little Brown

Silver Creek ski area opened

Ronald Ohl became president of Salem College

The Seneca Glass Company closed

Ada "Bricktop" Smith published her autobiography

Michael Smith recorded his first album, the Michael W. Smith Project

Silver Creek ski area opened down the mountain from Snowshoe

Tobacco was the second most valuable farm crop in West Virginia

Stephen and Deborah Starks continued publication of the Beacon Journal under the name West Virginia Beacon Digest

A continuous-care and kidney dialysis center was dedicated at Wheeling Hospital

Additional repairs were made to the Wheeling Suspension Bridge

Winterplace ski area opened

WSAZ music changed from program format to country music

The Diamond department store closed

"Diamond Teeth" Mary McClain appeared in the documentary Free Show Tonight

Marc Harshman's first book of poetry, Turning Out the Stones, was published

The Charleston Gazette-Mail named Buck Harless West Virginian of the Year

George Daugherty and Larry Groce hosted Mountain Stage