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A Short History of Pittsburgh: 1758-1908
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by Samuel Harden Church 27 Feb, 2019
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Some ten years ago I contributed to a book on "Historic Towns," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York and London, a brief historical sketch of Pittsburgh. The approach of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Pittsburgh, ... Read more
Some ten years ago I contributed to a book on "Historic Towns," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York and London, a brief historical sketch of Pittsburgh. The approach of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Pittsburgh, and the elaborate celebrations planned in connection therewith, led to many requests that I would reprint the sketch in its own covers as a souvenir of the occasion. Finding it quite inadequate for permanent preservation in its original form, I have, after much research and painstaking labor, rewritten the entire work, adding many new materials, and making of it what I believe to be a complete, though a short, history of our city. The story has developed itself into three natural divisions: historical, industrial, and intellectual, and the record will show that under either one of these titles Pittsburgh is a notable, and under all of them, an imperial, city. S. H. C. Lake Placid Club, Adirondack Mountains, [...]. Less
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Samuel Harden Church
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1800-75; author of had 12 children with his wife Mary; manufacturer, Kensington Iron Works, and preacher for 17 years at the First Christian Church of Allegheny, for which he took no salary; John Mar...
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