Art and Artists

Gen. William Darke voted for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution during the Virginia ratifying convention

Daniel Boone and his family settled near mouth of Kanawha River

Dr. Henry Harvey was born in Fincastle, Virginia

Pendleton County was formed.

Franklin originated as county seat of Pendleton County

David E. Jackson was born

The first Mennonites in West Virginia settled near Lewisburg

George Lemon was born

John Stuart was a member of the Virginia convention that advocated ratification of the U.S. Constitution

Reader, Wetzel County, was settled

Ebenezer Zane represented Ohio County in the Virginia convention to ratify U.S. Constitution

Buckhannon was established

Western representatives called for a constitutional convention

John George Jackson was a promoter of the Staunton Convention

Dr. James Putney was born in Malden

Capt. Henry Shreve constructed his steamboat Washington from the timbers of Fort Henry, Wheeling

The Staunton Convention failed to meet western demands

Middlebourne became the county seat of Tyler County

Noah Ludlow bought a 25-foot flatboat

The General Assembly passed an act to establish an Internal Improvement Fund and Board of Public Works

Charlestown became Wellsburg

Thomas Anshutz painted The Ironworkers' Noontime

Main building of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum at Weston was completed

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