Elmer Forrest Jacobs

Broaddus Female College (now part of Alderson Broaddus University) accepted its first male students

Cyrus Thomas published Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology.

Newton Diehl Baker received law degree from Washington and Lee University

New bridges were constructed in Harpers Ferry and some of the remaining Bollman trusses were converted to highway use

Evening Mail became morning paper after George Warren sold to John B. Floyd

Democratic Supremacy in West Virginia ended

John Cornwell passed the bar exam

John Dickinson became the first director of the West Virginia Bankers Association

John Hardy was hanged at Welch for killing a man in a card game

Pennsylvania Glass Sand Company began mining Oriskany sand in the same geological formation in Pennsylvania about 80 miles north of Morgan County, West Virginia

The Easton Roller Mill replaced buhrs with steam power and rollers

A high school was established in Harrisville

Only about half of state miners participated in a nationwide strike by UMWA

The American Ancient Order of Hibernians peaked in West Virginia with 647 men in 12 Hibernian divisions

John Dickinson became cashier of the Kanawha Valley Bank

Kenova was incorporated as a town

The city of Welch was incorporated

John McWhorter received a law degree from WVU law school

The B&O branch in Morgantown extended to Connellsville, Pennsylvania

The first two nurses at Wheeling City Hospital Training School received their diplomas

Livia Simpson Poffenbarger married George Poffenbarger.

The first Presbyterian Church was formed in Williamson.

Rt. Rev. Patrick J. Donahue was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling

Telephone switchboards were installed at Fairmont

The Big Moses gas well was drilled

Clarence W. Watson married Minnie Lee Owings

Kenova was chartered

The Historical Society was given larger quarters for its museum and library at the Capitol

The National Guard was activated for service in areas of labor unrest

Westvaco opened headquarters in New York City

Albert White managed the U.S. Senate campaign of Stephen B. Elkins

Thomas Anshutz painted Steamboat on the Ohio

B&O Railroad only hauled four percent of Tidewater-bound soft coal

Elk River Coal & Lumber Company began buying land in West Virginia

George Sturdevant and John W. Johnson purchased the factory at Brush Creek Falls in Mercer County

Michael Benedum married Sarah Lantz

"Athens" name of new post office and village

William Coley founded the Parsons Advocate newspaper

John William Davis began teaching law at Washington & Lee

Democrats slipped into minority status in West Virginia

According to legend, underground Elk (River) was formed when a hole opened in the stream bed and simply swallowed the river

Thaddeus Fowler first visited West Virginia

Edward Bates Franzheim designed the Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church in Wheeling

The Trinity United Methodist Church was organized in Glenville

Grantsville was incorporated

The H.K. Bedford began Pittsburgh-Charleston service

William Jennings Bryan was defeated as free silver presidential candidate

Hamilton Hatter became the first principal of Bluefield Colored Institute (Bluefield State College)

Homer Laughlin incorporated as Homer Laughlin and Company

William Leigh painted his portrait of Sophie H. Colston

The Moundsville Daily Echo became a daily publication

Louis Marx was born

John McGraw first served as a member of the Democratic National Committee

James Miller served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention

The Seneca Glass Company moved from Ohio to Morgantown

The South Branch Intelligencer merged with the Hampshire Review

Lawrence Nuttall and C. F. Millspaugh published Flora of West Virginia

Melville Davisson Post's short story collection The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason made him immensely popular.

The second period of Republican dominance began

Telephone switchboards were installed at Morgantown

The Webster Springs Hotel was built

Agnes Westbrook Morrison was admitted to the bar

WVU hires its first full-time coach

Matthew Whittico graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania

Matewan challenged Williamson as county seat of Mingo County

Carter Woodson graduated from Douglass High School

Hurry-up Yost played tackle on the WVU football team

The Shenandoah River flooded

Harrison Ash became chief of police at Thurmond

Baldwin-Felts Agency helped break a strike in the New River Field

Rosa Pelham was forced out of the castle by debt

Sam Black Church is built

Mother Blizzard's family was evicted from their home because of her support of the coal strike

Aaron Bloch succeeded his brother, Samuel, as president of Bloch Brothers Tobacco

Stephen B. Elkins purchased the Morgantown & Kingwood Railroad

James Callahan was appointed chairman of the Department of History and Political Science at WVU

Andrew Carnegie donated $33,000 to Lewisburg Female Institute to build Carnegie Hall

Cecil B. Highland became a stockholder of Clarksburg Exponent Telegram

The Coal & Coke Railway Company sold the Central & Pittsburgh

Watson-Fleming-Camden syndicate acquired the Somerset Coal Company

Voters amended the constitution making Secretary of State an elected office

The Mahan family quit farming the land

Edward Franzheim was probably the most successful architect in West Virginia

The Greenbrier Military Academy was bought by the Greenbrier Presbytery and renamed the Greenbrier Presbyterial School

The Homer Laughlin China Company purchased the Newell Farm and expanded across the Ohio into West Virginia

Nancy Hart died

The state called troops to mining strikes

The state called troops to areas with striking miners

The Hazel Atlas Glass Company was created

The UMWA organized about 7,000 miners in the Kanawha Valley

James H. Nash bought Holly Grove Mansion and made changes

Albert F. Holden and William H. Coolidge inspected 30,000 acres of land on Coppers Fork of Island Creek

A History of the Valley of Virginia was reprinted

The C&O Railroad was built along the Guyandotte River

Patients other than coal miners were charged $1.59/ day at McKendree Hospital

The West Virginia University School of Medicine was founded in Morgantown

Samuel Alexander McCoy and G. W McCauley bought the Hardy County News from Capt. J. J. Chipley

Matthew M. Neely opened a Fairmont law office

John Nugent came to West Virginia as a UMWA organizer

Oak Hill's first high school was established by Charles T. Jones and Albert G. Sevy

George Rashid migrated to the United States from Syria

The Pinch Reunion was established by Judge William W. Wertz

The Greenbrier Division of the C&O was completed to Durbin

Potomac State College began operation as the West Virginia Preparatory School

The Rending of Virginia was originally published in Chicago by Mayer & Miller

Frederick Rhead came to America

Charles Ritter married Mabel McClinock

Benjamin Rosenbloom played on the WVU football team

St. Lawrence Boom & Manufacturing Company at Ronceverte began to receive logs from Anthony's Creek by rail

Shannondale Springs was sold to H.C. Getzendanner

The New River Coal strike occurred

The Capitol City Lodge incorporated the Pythian Mutual Investment Fund

A constitutional amendment increased the Supreme Court of Appeals justices to five

The Interurban streetcar line reached Vienna

Vienna opened West Virginia's first country club

Ward Engineering Works built the James Rumsey for the U.S. Engineering Corp

H. Rus Warne and Charles G. Rabenstein established an architect firm

Fairmont Coal Company operated 28 mines and employed 6,067

The community of Addison receives the postal name of Webster Springs

A narrow-gauge railroad arrived at Webster Springs

Davis sold the West Virginia Central & Pittsburg(h) Railroad to the Gould interests

The Medical Society of West Virginia name changed to West Virginia State Medical Association