Main building of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum at Weston was completed
Thomas Anshutz painted Ironworkers' Noontime
Raleigh County Index established by Edwin Prince
Joseph Beury and brothers began to buy tracts of coal land
Preston County Brookside Resort was built
Jimmy D. Johnson established water-powered mill at Brush Creek Falls
William Edwin Chilton passed the bar
The International Sunday School Association was organized in West Virginia
U.S Census published the first statistical compilation on West Virginia forests
Two-thirds of West Virginia still covered by old forest
Fairmont State had more students than any normal school
Post No. 1 of Guard Army of the Republic was organized in Martinsburg
Devil Anse Hatfield led the armed party rescuing Johnse Hatfield from the brothers of Rose Anna McCoy
Hinton was incorporated
Reported only 250 people lived in Hollidays Cove
Jedediah Hotchkiss began publishing a monthly magazine, The Virginias: a Mining, Industrial and Scientific Journal Devoted to the Development of Virginia and West Virginia
Census listed 8 Irish families totaling 43 persons occupying Irish Mountain
Jews lived in most of the developed areas of the state
George Latham was appointed as supervisor of the census for West Virginia's First District
William Leigh began studying under Hugh Newell at Maryland Institute
William MacCorkle was elected prosecuting attorney of Kanawha County
Hu Maxwell graduated from Weston Academy
John McGraw entered the practice of law
Agnes Reeves Greer was born
Orthodox Christians from Russia, Greece and Ottoman Empire began to settle in coalfields of West Virginia
St. Mary Carpatho-Russian Orthodox church was founded in Bluefield
There were 400 sawmills in West Virginia
Nathan Scott was elected to the Wheeling City Council
The Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Wheeling was erected by the Soldiers Aid Society
West Virginia's first telephone exchange was placed in service in Wheeling
The Funkhouser barn was built in Hardy County
Charles Ward began working full time at his own business
The National Guard was activated for service in areas of labor unrest, specifically to quell a strike of coal miners at Hawks Nest
Construction began at a point on the B&O Railway
The mental hospital at Weston was completed
Wheeling had 30,737 people
Emanuel Wilson was elected speaker of the House of Delegates
