Sam Shaw

State Board of Agriculture set up by legislature

Legislature created a state banking department

There were 49 state banks and 22 national banks in West Virginia

Collection of Ambrose Bierce's Civil War stories, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (also known as In the Midst of Life) was published

Fannie Cobb Carter earned teaching degree from Storer College in Harpers Ferry

WVU Mountaineers played first football game against University of Pittsburgh

First bridge built across the Kanawha River, in Charleston

Clarksburg investors acquired the Telegram

First principal of present Concord University Capt. James Harvey French died

James Dye graduated from Starling Medical College in Cincinnati

William Dawson became chairman of Republican state committee

Alexander L. Wade's education graduating system was made compulsory statewide

Stephen Elkins was appointed secretary of war by President Harrison

George Peterkin built the Church of the Good Shepherd in Parkersburg

Town of Ansted was incorporated, named for David T. Ansted

The Central City brewery was built by American Brewing Company

Fostoria Glass Company relocated to Moundsville

Construction on Graceland began in Elkins

John P. Hale wrote History of the Great Kanawha Valley

Hamilton Hatter became a member of the college board of trustees

George Imboden was elected the first mayor of Ansted

The "Australian" or standardized printed ballot was adopted in West Virginia

Paris Brumfield was murdered by his son Charley in the wake of the Lincoln County Feud

The "government lock" was built on Little Kanawha River near Burning Springs

The federal government built a fifth lock and dam near burning springs

The Moundsville Daily Echo was established as a weekly newspaper

C. F. Millspaugh arrived at WVU

The Mount Carbon Prehistoric Site was investigated by Col. P. W. Norris for the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology

John T. McGraw purchased the land at Marlinton.

Pruntytown was originally established as the Industrial School for Boys

Pruntytown was originally established as the Industrial School for Boys.

Postmaster General John Wanamaker conducted a limited experiment with rural free delivery in the Eastern Panhandle

Labor organization lobbied for the law regulating scrip

The Seneca Glass Company opened in Fostoria, Ohio

Telephone switchboards were installed at Clarksburg

The Martinsburg Mining, Manufacturing and Improvement Company developed a subdivision for workers

McDowell County seat located to Welch

The Norfolk & Western Railway Company extended its line into McDowell County

The Historical Society asked the West Virginia legislature for funding

Harriet Lyon became the first woman to receive a degree from WVU

The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway was completed to Martin's Ferry Ohio

Emanuel Wilson authored a new election law

Charles Ambler's last year teaching history and political science at Randolph-Macon College

Hotel built by Harvey Ghiz in Logan

West Virginia Folklore Society became inactive

Louis Bennett Jr. graduated from Yale

First book of poetry, Green Fruit,was published by John Bishop

Florence Blanchfield enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps

Pearl Sydenstricker married John Lossing Buck

Louis Watson Chappell received his B.A. from Wake Forest

William Edwin Chilton completed his term as U.S. Senate and became publisher

U.S. government hired DuPont Company to build new nitrocellulose plant

89.4 million tons of coal produced in West Virginia

The Shenandoah (George Washington) National Forest was created

U.S. Supreme Court supported Alston Dayton's "yellow dog" contracts ruling

Legislature established the West Virginia State Colored Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Diamond Shoe and Garment Co. received full department store status

Natural gas peaked at 309 billion cubic feet

Marion County in the Making was published

Study of German in schools dropped due to the entrance of America in WWI

Henry Hatfield entered the army medical corps as Captain

West Virginia launched a series of highway improvements with creation of the State Road Commission

The State Road Bureau was replaced by the State Road Commission

The U.S. Supreme Court sustained the lower court ruling prohibiting UMWA from seeking to influence workers from breaking yellowdog contracts

The House of Delegates grew to 94 delegates

Itmann began mining the Pocahontas No. 3 coal seam in Wyoming County

Billy Moore was born in Parkersburg

Fanny Johnson and Vincent Costello moved back to Charleston

Fanny Johnson's story "The Strange Looking Man" was included in a best short stories collection

Mother Jones returned to West Virginia to hold meetings and seek union recognition in the Fairmont and Winding Gulf coalfield

Frank Keeney became president of UMWA District 17

Harley Kilgore was commissioned a second lieutenant

The town of Nitro was established by the U.S. War Department for the manufacture of munitions for WWI

Fred Mooney became secretary-treasurer of UMWA District 17

Regents began to abolish high school courses in normal schools

The U.S. government acquired the majority of land on Otter Creek for Monongahela National Forest

The Owens Bottle Company opened a plant in the upper end of Kanawha City

William Nelson Page moved to Washington.

Pruntytown Correctional Center, near Grafton, offered eight years of education, providing a full grade-school education

Denmar Sanitarium for black tuberculosis patients was established in Pocahontas County.

The Division of Vital Statistics was established by the West Virginia Legislature.

Short lines, including the Coal & Coke Railway, became part of the B&O.

The Reymann Memorial Farm was donated to WVU as two separate farms

Rat Rodgers was named to the All-American teams

Capt. Thomas J. Reynolds built his first real showboat and named it America

Five companies merged to form the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation

The USS Huntington was equipped for early experiments in naval aviation

Commercial mining had started in Webster County

The Montgomery Preparatory School was renamed the West Virginia Trades School (now WVU Institute of Technology)

Lenna Yost became the president of the West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association

Mordecai Johnson became pastor of Charleston’s First Baptist Church

Woodford Sutherland killed after training flight when his parked P-51 was hit by another

Akro Agate Company ceased production

Clair Bee ended his college coaching career at Long Island University after the point-shaving scandals that devastated college basketball

Florence Blanchfield received the International Red Cross's Florence Nightingale Medal

Harry Atlee Burdette and Fred Clifford Painter first to be put to death via electric chair in West Virginia

Charleston Memorial Hospital dedicated with 129 beds

Air Force ROTC program was established at Davis & Elkins College

Fiestaware colors forest green, rose, chartreuse, and grey were introduced

Floodwall in Point Pleasant was completed

Ruel Foster wrote William Faulkner: A Critical Appraisal

Tony Brown graduated from Garnet High School

Gunner Gatski earned All-Pro honors in football

Ella Holroyd retired from Concord College

Ray Wetzel died in a car accident

Elizabeth Kee took her place in the House of Representatives, replacing her late husband, John Kee

Maryat Lee wrote and produced the street play Dope!

The federal navigation system on the Little Kanawha River was turned over to the state

Kanawha County Democratic boss Homer Hanna Sr. and Governor Patteson picked William Marland as candidate for governor

Catherine Marshall wrote A Man Called Peter

J. Kemp McLaughlin led the squadron on active duty in the Korean War

Okey Mills married Netie Mae Neely

Waterford Park (later Mountaineer Race Track) opened

Ruth Ann Musick and others founded the West Virginia Folklore Journal

Karl Myers compiled a second poetry collection, Cross and Crown

College assumed its current name, Potomac State College of West Virginia University

Benjamin Rosenbloom retired from practicing law

K. Duane Hurley became president of Salem College

Hulett Smith became chairman of Beckley's Democratic executive committee.

The Paw Paw Tunnel was shut down

The first coaxial cable television system started carrying programming of WSAZ to Welch

Bishop Swint asked Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus to help establish a Catholic college of liberal arts in West Virginia (now Wheeling Jesuit University)

Hurry-up Yost was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

Robert Graetz Jr. married Jeannie Ellis