A SHORT HISTORY OF PITTSBURGH 1758-1908
[Illustration: George Washington, the first Pittsburgher]
A SHORT HISTORY OF PITTSBURGH 1758-1908
BY SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH
AUTHOR OF "OLIVER CROMWELL: A HISTORY," "PENRUDDOCK OF THE WHITE LAMBS," "JOHN MARMADUKE," "BEOWULF: A POEM," ETC.
PRINTED AT THE DE VINNE PRESS NEW YORK 1908
Copyright, 1908, by SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH
CONTENTS
PAGE HISTORICAL 13
INDUSTRIAL 79
INTELLECTUAL 89
INDEX 127
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
George Washington, the first Pittsburgher _Frontispiece_ PAGE William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 26
Plan of Fort Pitt 31
Henry Bouquet 32
Block House of Fort Pitt. Built in 1764 33
Anthony Wayne 41
Conestoga wagon 44
Stage-coach 46
Over the mountains in 1839; canal boat being hauled over the portage road 47
View of Old Pittsburgh, 1817 50
Pittsburgh, showing the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers 80
The Pittsburgh Country Club 88
Panther Hollow Bridge, Schenley Park 93
Entrance to Highland Park 97
The Carnegie Institute 101
Court-house 104
Zooelogical Garden in Highland Park 107
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Short History of Pittsburgh by Church
- 2: University of Pittsburgh 123Phipps Conservatory
- 3: Whither they tracked the bear from their village of Logstown
- 4: The Allegheny being northeast and the Monongahela southeast
- 5: And when Contrecoeur arrived in April
- 6: This was forbidden by Braddock
- 7: And the third against Fort Duquesne
- 8: General Forbes wrote to Governor Denny from Fort Duquesne
- 9: Built by Colonel Bouquet in 1764
- 10: On May 16th a convention was held at Pittsburgh
- 11: And he arrived in Pittsburgh in June
- 12: And thence to Pittsburgh on packhorses
- 13: The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
- 14: Diehl was removed from his office
- 15: Speeches were made by Horace Greeley
- 16: The bridge over the Monongahela River
- 17: Reporting its conclusions to the trainmen
- 18: The strikers held a meeting that evening
- 19: When the rioters beheld their associates attacked
- 20: And keeping all their employees at work
- 21: And he had come to Pittsburgh to address the rioters
- 22: No reduction in tonnage rates was proposed
- 23: Until they met the Pinkerton men
- 24: And East Pittsburgh with its Westinghouse plants
- 25: Of air brakes which George Westinghouse invented in 1868
- 26: Travelers who come to Pittsburgh
- 27: IIIn Schenley Park is the Carnegie Institute
- 28: The Museum embraces sections of paleontology
- 29: In 1896 the Department of Dentistry was established
- 30: The Western Theological Seminary Presbyterian
- 31: The Allegheny County Court House
- 32: Distant as I am from Pittsburgh
- 33: Seibel has published a monograph on The Mormon Problem
- 34: While Father Sheedy has published Social Topics
- 35: A Short History of Pittsburgh 1908
- 36: Then will the law be paramount
- 37: Raises English flag over Fort Duquesne
- 38: 108Collins annexed to Pittsburgh
- 39: Names captured fort Pittsburgh
- 40: 108Lawrenceville annexed to Pittsburgh
- 41: 37Liberty annexed to Pittsburgh
- 42: 63Peebles annexed to Pittsburgh
- 43: 49Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Canal
- 44: Png Corrected spelling of Breckinridge