The Bruen Lands Feud

Richard Watson printed Christian Panoply, the first book printed in present West Virginia

Joseph Ruffner purchased 502 acres of land at Campbells Creek

John Dickinson conveyed a tract of 704 acres to Samuel and John Shrewsbury

An alderman system was authorized

William Beauchamp settled in the area of present Elizabeth

George, William and Alexander Clendenin sold Fort Lee to Joseph Ruffner

Joseph Ruffner arrived in the Kanawha Valley

Bishop Asbury again held sessions of the Greenbrier Conference at Rehoboth Church

Construction began on a more substantial courthouse for Ohio County

Walter Newman erected a hewn-log house at Point Pleasant which still stands today

David Ruffner finally left old Virginia

Thomas and Jonathan Buffington came to the mouth of the Guyandotte River to take possession of land

William Ice and Aiden Bales pioneered Grant District, Wetzel County

Obadiah Paden settle Paden City

Ebenezer Zane blazed his trace to Maysville, Kentucky

James Wood became governor of Virginia

Southern Baptist Convention organized

Arthur Boreman was admitted to the bar

Luke Jaco opened a tavern and stagecoach stop that was part of the Underground Railroad

Doddridge County was name in honor of Philip Doddridge

Reported three dozen primitive sawmills in present West Virginia

Town of Glenville was laid out

John Hale graduated from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Frank Herford graduated from McKendree College, Illinois

The Great Potato Famine in Ireland pushed many Irish into the area of Western Virginia

John Jay Jackson Jr. graduated from College of New Jersey (Princeton University)

The Reeves family moved to Philippi

William McCoy built a new mill on site of the old mill

Thomas Gaylord McKell was born

The Moorefield Examiner was established

Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) died

Lynnside Manor was built

The middle section of Staunton Turnpike was completed to Weston

George Summers left the House of Representatives

William Thurmond moved to Fayette County

The Funkhouser house was built

Ephraim G. Squier and Edwin H. Davis documented Salt Rock petroglyphs

The Point Pleasant lead plate left by Celeron was found by boy playing on riverbank

Legislature allowed citizens to petition counties to establish free schools

Joseph Diss Debar moved to Parkersburg

Legislation authorized school commissioners to use local taxes to supplement state aid for the poor

William Edwards traveled to the Amazon River

Salt production in the Kanawha Valley peaked at 3,244,786 bushels

Weston's first newspaper began publishing

Joseph Lightburn enlisted in the army as a private

Alexander Martin served as principal of Kingwood Academy in Preston County

Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis conducted a survey of prehistoric mounds in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys

New Martinsville became the county seat of Wetzel County

Jesse Reno graduated from West Point.

The Christian Minstrel was published introducing a second system using seven shapes to teach singing

Churches in Lewis, Upshur, Barbour, and Gilmer counties merged with those in Braxton County to form the Lewis or Buckhannon Circuit of the United Brethren

The administration building at the School for Deaf and Blind was built

Women were first admitted as students to Bethany College on a provisional basis

Legislature put place of state capital to vote of people

Legislature created a Fish Commission and first game and warden appointments

Caroline Dane "Danske" Bedinger married A.B. Dandridge

Samuel Dixon emigrated to Fayette County

Stephen Elkins and Henry Gassaway Davis became partners in developing land in West Virginia

A major flood on the Greenbrier River damaged early settlements

Serious flood hit Hardy County

Frank Hereford was elected by the state legislature to fill the unexpired U.S. Senate term of Allen Taylor Caperton

The Knights of Labor established a local organization at Paden City

Voters chose Charleston over Clarksburg and Martinsburg as the permanent seat of government

The Ohio Valley Pottery ceased making ironstone china

A cadet battalion was formed at Linsly School

The normal schools established a three-year term beyond elementary grades

The Jackson Democrat became the Jackson Herald

The first annual Jackson County Fair was held in Ripley

I.C. White returned to WVU to teach geology

Emanuel Wilson began serving in the House of Delegates