Baseball

Babcock Lumber & Boom Company bought Thompson Lumber Company

Walter Barnes began teaching English at Greenville State Normal School (Greenville State College)

The great Winding Gulf coalfield opened

Elkins Coal & Coke Company put beehive coke ovens into full production

Brinkley Bridge was built

Harry F. Byrd established the Martinsburg Evening Journal

McMillan Hospital created by Dr. William A. McMillan

The Chilton family acquired an interest in the newspaper and changed the name to the Charleston Gazette

The Chilton family acquired an interest in the newspaper and changed the name to the Charleston Gazette

Greenbrier Railway Company purchased by C&O

Oliver Chitwood became professor of history at WVU

Empire Bank building was finished in Clarksburg

Michael Benedum moved business headquarters and home to Pittsburgh

Stuart shaft mine explosion killed 85 men

Alston Dayton issued sweeping temporary injunction against the UMW in Hitchman Coal & Coke v. John Mitchell

John Easton came to Williamstown

Edgewood Country Club membership under Angus W. MacDonald constructed clubhouse and tennis courts

State property levy was eliminated

West Virginia lumber production peaked with 1.5 billion board feet sawed

Stella Fuller returned to Huntington

Howard Gore's father died and he took control of the farm

Rimfire Hamrick was employed by the Webster Springs Hotel as guide and handyman

City of Chester was incorporated

A meeting of the West Virginia Fish and Game Protective Association occurred at Clarksburg

John Nugent was appointed immigration commissioner

Lily Jackson inherited the family estate after her father, John Jay Jr. died

Fanny Johnson and husband, Vincent Costello moved to Wheeling

UMWA President John Mitchell came to Charleston to launch a major union offensive

Blanche Lazzell studied at the Art Students League in New York

Coal mining began around Walkersville

Mayor Scott Justice renamed the city of Logan Courthouse (formerly Aracoma) as Logan

Ezra Cline was born

Lawrence J. Corbly's title was changed from principal to president of Marshall College (now University)

The old Tyler County High School building was built

Three other mine disasters occurred including the Monongah Mine Disaster

The first Corn Club in West Virginia was established in Monroe County

Margaret Montague published The Sowing of Alderson Cree

The B&O line extending to the Morgantown & Kingwood line was completed

The Niagara Movement attempted to meet again at Storer College but officials wouldn't allow

Pineville was renamed and incorporated, and became county seat of Wyoming County

The William Ritter Lumber Company was indicted by a federal grand jury on charge of peonage

Reported 6,159 schools in 396 districts in West Virginia

The Lewisburg & Ronceverte brought rail service to Lewisburg

The Banner Glass Company relocated from Indiana to South Charleston

The Robey Theater opened in Spencer

The original stone structure was replace by a viaduct

Morris Harvey died

There was an explosion at the Pleasant Valley Coal Company mine killing 12 men

The Virginian Railway was established

H. Rus Warne had two exhibits at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia

The Wheeling Custom House (West Virginia Independence Hall) ceased being a federal building.

Black teachers formed a separate Northern Teachers' Association

I. C. White advocated for legislation establishing the U.S. Bureau of Mines

Appalachian Power Company began

Daniel Willard became president of B&O

Charleston entered professional baseball

Beckley population rose to 2,161

Bluefield's population exceeded 10,000

U.S. Supreme Court established boundary between Preston County, West Virginia and Garrett County, Maryland

Pearl Buck returned to the U.S. after living in China

Pine Run School was built

Annie G. Packette raised $50,000 to construct Charleston Opera House

Charleston Mail sold to Samuel Dixon

Men including John W. Davis published the Culpeper Exponent

U.S. Bureau of Mines created after the Fairmont disaster of 1907

West Virginia coke production peaked at 4,217,381 tons

Justus Collins opened Winding Gulf mine

Danske Dandridge wrote Historic Shepherdstown

Levi Dean began practicing architecture in Charleston

The first deer hunting season was established

West Virginia's approximate deer population was 1,000

Thurmond accounted for almost 20% of all revenue generated on C&O Railway

Isaac Morris sold Easton Roller Mill to William Ley

West Virginia schools had fallen behind national averages

West Virginia had only 12 fully accredited high schools

The Department of Education increased to five divisions

Golden era of glass production ended

Aretas Fleming pushed to establish the U.S. Bureau of Mines

A. B. Brooks compiled a report on West Virginia forests

Thaddeus Fowler returned to West Virginia

Number of farms in West Virginia stood at 97,000

Glass factory employment totaled 7,500 workers

The Meadow River Lumber Company was organized in Rainelle

The C&O purchased the Greenbrier Resort and developed it into a major destination

Rimfire Hamrick opened a jewelry, watch repair, and gunsmith shop in Webster Springs

The High Gate mansion was built for James Edwin Watson

Census reported 5,939 Hungarians in West Virginia

Census showed 17 Irish families and 82 person occupying Irish Mountain

Reported 17,000 Italian immigrants in West Virginia

McDowell County reported the most Italian immigrants in West Virginia with 2,300

City of Ranson was established

Reported most of the Kelly Axe Company's grinders were natives of Poland or Russia

Harley Kilgore graduated from Mannington High School

Sarah Ann Legg appealed her case for murder of Jay Legg and was acquitted of all charges

Lincoln County had a population of 20,491

Signs bearing "Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco, Treat yourself to the Best" began appearing

Akro Agate was founded in Ohio

Marlinton had a tannery, two banks, two newspapers, 20 stores, a hospital, opera house, fire department, school, water system, & electric power

Marlinton Opera House was built by J. C. Tilton

John Matheus graduated from Western Reserve University (Case Western Reserve) in Cleveland, Ohio

The original sawmill of the Meadow River Lumber Company was built

The McKendree and Welch hospitals opened affiliated nursing schools

Morgantown population rose to 9,150

Howard Sloan organized the first enduring work of the Church of the Nazarene in West Virginia

The New York Central gained control of the Toledo & Ohio Central

Niagara Movement failed to meet

The O. Ames company arrived in Parkersburg

37 of the state's 55 counties were completely dry or allowed the prohibition of the sale of liquor under local option laws.

The C&O and Virginian railroads had penetrated every section of Raleigh County

A factory making buttons from river mussel shell opened in St. Marys

Nathan Scott lost the Republican nomination

The Raine brothers established the Meadow River Lumber Company

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled that the Swan lands had been forfeited to the state because taxes had not been paid

Thurmond had a population of 315

The B&O railroad penetrated the Trough

Tucker County population peaked at 18,675

U.S. Coal & Coke built 12 individual company towns at Gary

The steamboat Virginia went aground on a falling Ohio River and ended up in a cornfield at Ravenswood

The Meyercord-Carter Company reorganized as the Vitrolite Company

The Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk Railroad was incorporated

T. Edward Hill joined the McDowell Times

Ohio Valley Glass became Paul Wissmach Glass Company

Kanawha Park was built for baseball

Beckley street paving began

Newton Diehl Baker was appointed Secretary of War by President Wilson

John T. Harris produced the first volume of the West Virginia Blue Book

Izetta Brown took over management of Preston County farm and established modern dairy operation after husband's death

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company built a sawmill at Swandale

Col. E. G. Via bought the Camden Park

George Carter moved to Coalwood

The first fire towers were erected

Fairmont High School class wrote Marion County in the Making

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company located one of its main plants in Clarksburg

Letter from former Governor MacCorkle to state archivist Henry S. Green confuses John Hardy with John Henry

The West Virginia Asylum name changed to Huntington State Hospital

The company town of Itmann was built

Fanny Johnson published her only novel, The Beloved Son

Libbey-Owens-Ford built its large plate glass plant in Kanawha City

Herman Kump was defeated for prosecuting attorney

Blanche Lazzell began working in the method of single block color print

Howard B. Lee began serving as Mercer County prosecuting attorney

William Alexander MacCorkle wrote The White Sulphur Springs

Joseph Long became the postmaster of Huntington

Sam Mallison became city editor of the Clarksburg Telegram

Publication of the Market Bulletin began when James H. Stewart was agriculture commissioner

The Tilton family regained ownership of the Marlinton Opera House

John McGraw was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention

Six passenger trains a day operated from Charleston to Blakeley on Kellys Creek

12 passenger trains a day were scheduled into Charleston

The Point Pleasant Register became a daily

Michael Owens launched a Charleston glass factory

Paden City was incorporated

Pendleton Land Company took over Paden City Pottery

The Wyoming County courthouse was built

Rat Rodgers was named to the All-American teams

Socialists controlled both District 29 and District 17 of the UMWA

The Charleston Interurban Railroad was built to Cabin Creek

The earliest recorded instance of surface mining in West Virginia occurred

The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia was incorporated

The USS Huntington was on the West Coast

The National Guard was activated after a call for troops to pursue Pancho Villa on the Mexican border

The National Guard was activated in call for troops to pursue Pancho Villa on the Mexican border

Statewide constitutional referendum for women's suffrage passed

Carter G. Woodson began publication of the Journal of Negro History

A courthouse at Pineville was built

Frank Reeves received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University

Women received the right to vote

State apple-packing plant in Inwood was established

Walter Barnes wrote Types of Children's Literature

Braxton's population peaked at 23,973

Alonzo Brooks published West Virginia Trees

Izetta Brown was first woman to second a presidential nominee, John W. Davis

Chauncey H. Browning graduated from Logan High School

City Hospital was moved to Camden mansion on Garfield Avenue in Parkersburg

Don Chafin was reelected as sheriff

Louis Watson Chappell received his M.A. from University of Virginia

The Union Carbide Company bought small refinery near Clendenin

Matthew Wesley Clair, Sr. was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Fayette County population jumped to 60,377

Caroline Gentry released The Key to Power, a movie

The Glen Ferris Inn was sold to a subsidiary of Union Carbide

Voters approved the Good Roads amendment

Grafton reached its peak population of 8,517

H. B. Moore and his brothers purchased the school and reorganized it as the Greenbrier Military School

Harrison County population rose to 74,783

Sid Hatfield assisted a United Mine Workers campaign to organize Tug Fork miners

The Clarksburg factory of the Hazel Atlas Glass Company had 15 acres of floor space, employed 1,200 people and shipped all over the world

Chemical firms in the Kanawha Valley began expanding rapidly

Census reported 6,260 Hungarians in West Virginia

Union organizing led to confrontations at Matewan and Blair Mountain

La Belle Ironworks merged with Wheeling Iron and Steel and Whitaker-Glessner Company to form Wheeling Steel Corporation

Ann Johnson Gates became the first woman member of the West Virginia legislature

The legislator salary was set at $500

High school at Walkersville was constructed

John L. Lewis became the president of the UMWA

Big Bill Lias started a career in the illegal sale and distribution of liquor

Minnie Lowther moved to Washington

Jacob Marcus attained his rabbinical ordination

William Marsh stopped serving as president of the M. Marsh and Son company

Marshall became a four-year college

The name was changed from Martinsburg West Virginia Evening Journal to Martinsburg Journal

McDowell was the third most populous county in the state

Willow Glen mansion, known in the Wheeling area as McKinley's Palace, was completed

James Miller ran unsuccessfully for secretary of state

James Miller left as judge

Additional land for Monongahela National Forest was purchased

The B&O leased the Morgantown & Kingwood

The National Bank of Commerce moved to Charleston and was renamed the State Street Bank

The Parkersburg Daily Sentinel ceased publication.

Monongahela National Forest was created.

Jennings Randolph graduated from Salem Academy.

The buildings at Red Sulphur Springs were dismantled and the resort ceased operation.

Red Ribble moved to Mount Hope

The third courthouse at Ripley was built

There were 398 sawmills operating in West Virginia

The United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans decided to erect a memorial to Heyward Shepherd

W. H. S White became president of Shepherd College

Matthew Holt was the Socialist candidate for governor

James Weldon Johnson was responsible for publishing Anne Spencer's " Before the Feast at Shushan"

P. D. Strausbaugh received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago

Howard Sutherland made a bid for presidency of United States

Union Carbide purchased a small refinery at Clendenin

C. W. Ferguson III was born

Webster County population was 11,000

Weirton population was at 8,000

Welch population was at 3,232

West Liberty's first dorms were built

Riley Wilson ran unsuccessfully for Congress

Carter G. Woodson left Howard University

Carter G. Woodson began Dean of the West Virginia Collegiate Institution (now West Virginia State University)

A decline in membership left only 40 churches belonging to the African Methodist Episcopal denomination

Death of William G. Baldwin

Walter Barnes wrote The Photoplay as Literature Art

William "Wally" Barron married Opal Marie Wilcox

Betty Bartholomew earned a teaching certificate and A.B. in botany from WVU

The state purchased the initial three tracts of land to form Bear Rock Lakes near Wheeling

Van Bittner became Midwestern director of the Committee on Industrial Organization's campaign to unionize steel workers

Henry Lake Dickason became president of Bluefield State Teachers College (now Bluefield State University)

Matthew Wesley Clair, Sr. retired as bishop of the Midwest black conferences of the Methodist Episcopals

Elsie Clapp left Arthurdale

Artist Ellie Schaul was born in Cambridge, Massachussetts

United Mine Workers of America established a Welfare and Retirement Fund

Ashford General Hospital closed

Wood County Airport, Parkersburg, built

Greater Cumberland Regional Airport, at Wiley Ford, built

The Bailes Brothers moved to KWKH Shreveport

Van Bittner directed the abortive drive to organize southern industrial workers

Everett Ferguson sold Browns Island to Weirton Ice and Coal Supply Company

Lew Burdette signed his first professional contract with the New York Yankees

Col. E. G. Via died

Camden Park was sold to James P. Boylin

Jim Comstock founded the Richwood News Leader

Samuel Cooper attended the World Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland

Bruce Crawford founded the West Virginia Advertising Company

Phyllis Curtin appeared at Tanglewood Music Center

Davis & Elkins College received full accreditation

Dolores Dowling left the Army Nurse Corps as a first lieutenant

Joanne Dru starred in her first film, Abie's Irish Rose

Proposed amendment to make the Board of Education a constitutional body

First consulting forester in West Virginia began work

Patrick Gainer became professor of English at WVU

Joseph C. Gluck, eventually dean of students, vice president for student affairs and special counselor to students, began work at WVU

The third floor of the Governor's Mansion was added

Alberta Pierson Hannum's book Spin a Silver Dollar was released as a radio play

Governor Meadows reappointed Roy Lee Harmon as poet laureate of West Virginia

Hawkshaw Hawkins began working on the Wheeling Jamboree broadcast from WWVA

Johnnie Johnson began performing in Chicago

The village of Lilly was razed due to construction of the Bluestone Dam

Pare Lorentz was awarded the Legion of Merit

A new dining hall was constructed at Marshall College (now University)

Jack Maurice returned to the Charleston Daily Mail

Arnold Miller returned home from WWII

The UMWA Health and Retirement Funds were created

Ruth Ann Musick began teaching mathematics and English at Fairmont State College (Fairmont State University)

Eldora Nuzum was made managing editor of the Grafton Sentinel

Molly O'Day was signed to Columbia Records contract by Fred Rose

American Cyanamid established plant at Willow Island

The West Virginia Broadcasters Association was organized

Louis Jordan made "Salt Pork, West Virginia" a best-selling recording

The Secondary Schools Activities Commission appointed a full-time executive secretary to the board

Raymond Hayes made a trip to Fayette County

Meredith Sue Willis was born

Sam Snead won the British Open

Buddy Starcher cut his first recordings on Four Star

An appropriation of $60,000 was obtained for the West Virginia State Police Academy during the legislative session

Storer College was accredited as a baccalaureate institution

A constitutional amendment providing educational reforms was defeated

Joe Stydahar won another championship with the Chicago Bears

Festus Summers became a full-time professor at WVU

The rubber plant at Institute was closed

DuPont's Belle Works ceased production of nylon

Frank Thomas built Fayette Airport

The United Brethren merged with the Evangelical Association forming the Evangelical United Brethren Church

There were 261 United Brethren churches in West Virginia

Hobert Skidmore died

The current West Virginia Historical Society was incorporated

The West Virginia Review was sold again

There were 6,000 students enrolled in WVU

Irvin Stewart became president of WVU

George Smith died

WJLS added an FM affiliate

American neurologist Walter Freeman adapted a variation of the surgery called the transorbital lobotomy

Artist Helen Chilton was born in Pennsylvania

Watt Powell Park had about 8,000 people on opening night

Watt Powell Park opened for baseball in Charleston's Kanawha City area

Raleigh County Memorial Airport built

Henry Lake Dickason retired as president of Bluefield State Teachers College (now University)

The Lilly Brothers of Raleigh County relocated to Boston

Widen was scene of fatal labor confrontation

Consolidated Bus Lines traveled 5,873,468 miles

Virginia Ruth "Dagmar" Egnor began own variety show, Dagmar's Canteen

John W. Davis argued for the continuation of racial segregation in South Carolina before the U.S. Supreme Court Briggs v. Elliot, later Brown v. Board of Education

John Warren Davis accepted a U.S. government appointment in Liberia

A wing to the Denmar Hospital building was completed

Fairmont State College president George W. Hand lost his position by refusing to fire Luella Raab Mundell

Ann Kathryn Flagg resigned her teaching position at Dunbar High School in Fairmont and became director of Children's Theater in Cleveland

U.S. Forest Service published reports on West Virginia Forests

Report stated that 64% of the state was forested

Gunner Gatski earned All-Pro honors in football

The Health and Physical Education Building at Glenville State College was dedicated

Original Mound Museum opened at Grave Creek Mound

K. K. Hall became circuit judge of West Virginia's 25th Judicial Circuit

Joseph Hodges was made an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Richmond

Johnnie Johnson moved to St. Louis and hired Chuck Berry to be in the Johnnie Johnson Trio

The 167th Fighter Squadron returned to West Virginia

The current number of members was established for the House of Delegates

The Wheeling Downs racetrack and other assets of Big Bill Lias were seized by the federal government

Library service was improved with creation of regional library systems

Hobert Skidmore wrote The Years Are Even

Lock No. 1 on the Big Sandy was closed

Walter Martens became a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a distinctive honor

The Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad was merged into the New York Central System

Walter Reuther was elected president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations

Jack Rollins wrote "Smokey the Bear"

WVU's Mark Workman became All-American in basketball

Jim Sprouse began serving with the Central Intelligence Agency

Spruce Knob Lake was constructed as a fishing lake

P. D. Strausbaugh published Part One of Flora of West Virginia

Planning for Sutton Dam was suspended because of Korean War

WSAZ-TV in Huntington became channel 3

S. A. Abram began redevelopment of the old seminary grounds at Hilltop, near Oak Hill in Fayette County

The Bluestone Dam and Lake was completed

A strike at Widen occurred

Virginia Mae Brown was named West Virginia’s first woman assistant attorney general

First Annual Conference on West Virginia's Black History hosted by First Baptist Church of Charleston

Appalachian Craftsmen, Inc. closed

Another 43 acres was added to Bear Rock Lakes

Pinckney Benedict Received M.F.A from Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa

Jerold Dugger resigned as president of Bluefield State College (now University)

Gassaway depot was closed by CSX

West Virginia was forced to reimburse $9.5 million to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Buffalo Creek Flood recovery work

Cabell Huntington Hospital Inc. became the new corporation governing the hospital

Third generation took over Capon Springs Resort

The state issued the first Marcellus Shale permit for a well in Kanawha County

Appalachian Power Park opened in Charleston