Thomas Dunn English

Asa Gray collected plants from Harpers Ferry to Tucker County en route to North Carolina

First coke made in West Virginia in Monongalia County

Martin Delany founded, edited and published the Mystery

John Echols became a lawyer

John Echols moved to Union

Original name of Middletown was changed to Fairmont

Thomas Harris graduated with degree in medicine at Louisville

John McCausland moved to Henderson when his parents died

Alexander H. Creel established a river port village near present St. Marys, in Pleasants County

David Ruffner died

Robert Simmons married Susan King

Staunton Turnpike was completed to Beverly

The Potomac River flooded

The Blackwater Chronicle was originally published

Mr. Boyd purchased land at the corner of Race and Spring, Martinsburg

Barrackville bridge built by Lemuel Chenoweth

Covington & Ohio Railroad was charted

Hamlin was chartered by the General Assembly

Jedediah Hotchkiss married Sara Comfort

Nativists adhering to the Know Nothing party threatened a papal diplomat visiting Wheeling

John Jacob married Jane Baird

John Jacob was appointed professor of political economy at the University of Missouri

Joseph Johnson's wife died

Kingwood was chartered by the General Assembly

Hamlin was established by the General Assembly

Two locks and dams were added to the Guyandotte and Ohio River

Logan was chartered as town of Aracoma by the General Assembly

Mining began in Clifton

The St. John's Chapel was built

David Strother was commissioned by Harper and Brothers to write and illustrate article about sporting expedition into the Canaan wilderness

A suspension bridge was constructed on the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike at Sutton

The Fort Hill Farm brick house was built in Mineral County

Virginia's Chapel was built in Cedar Grove

Bishop Richard Whelan bought property for the Wheeling Hospital

Four-story building built as a warehouse for the Crescent Manufacturing Company in Wheeling

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

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

Henry Mathews graduated from University of Virginia

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