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This Week in History

Mountain Media, LLC by Mountain Media, LLC
December 6, 2023
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Charleston WV – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history.

To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.

Dec. 7, 1940: Radio station WAJR-AM in Morgantown began broadcasting. In 1949, it

became the flagship station for a statewide network (now the Mountaineer Sports Network)

distributing broadcasts of West Virginia University football and basketball games.

Dec. 7, 1941: The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The USS West Virginia suffered

massive damage from torpedoes and bombs. Two officers, including the captain and 103 crew

members, died.

Dec. 8, 1911: “Wally” Barron was born. Barron, West Virginia’s 26th governor, achieved

a remarkable record of legislative success during his term (1961-65), but his accomplishments

were overshadowed when he became the first governor in state history to be indicted or

convicted of a major crime.

Dec. 9, 1829: West Virginia’s fourth governor, John Jeremiah Jacob, was born in

Hampshire County. He was the first governor born within the area that became West Virginia

and the first Democratic governor of the state.

Dec. 9, 1932: Songwriter, musician, playwright, humorist, and poet Billy Edd Wheeler

was born in Whitesville.

Dec. 10, 1841: Logan County preacher “Uncle Dyke” Garrett was born on Big Creek. His

greatest fame was for converting and baptizing Devil Anse Hatfield in Main Island Creek in

1911.

Dec. 10, 1949: The first class of 20 cadets graduated from the West Virginia State Police

Academy in Institute. The State Police purchased property for the academy on a hilltop

overlooking Institute in Kanawha County for about $3,200. Construction began in 1948, and the

building was completed the next year.

 

Dec. 11, 1905: “Pare” Lorentz, known as “FDR’s filmmaker,” was born in Clarksburg. In

1933, Lorentz created The Roosevelt Year: 1933, a pictorial review of FDR’s first year in the

White House.

Dec. 12, 1931: Attorney George Daugherty, better known as the comic singer, storyteller,

and songwriter “The Earl of Elkview,” was born upstairs over a Mannington silent movie house.

Dec. 12, 1942: Internationally known jazz pianist and recording artist Bob Thompson

was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York. He studied music at West Virginia State College (now

University) and is the house pianist for the Mountain Stage radio program.

Dec. 12, 1953: Chuck Yeager set a speed record by flying two-and-a-half times the speed

of sound in a Bell X-1A. Yeager, who grew up in Hamlin, had broken the sound barrier six years

earlier on Oct. 14, 1947.

Dec. 13, 1861: The Battle of Allegheny Mountain, one of the bloodiest conflicts of the

Civil War’s first year, took place in Pocahontas County. 

Dec. 13, 1926: Wheeling radio station WWVA-AM began broadcasting. The 50-watt

station operated from the basement of John Stroebel’s house for most of its first year. Stroebel

was a physics teacher and wireless pioneer.

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