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Monday through Friday 8:15 am - 5:00 pm by Nancy Foley Saturday 8:15 am - 4:00 pm (412) 682-1624 FAX: (412) 622-0655 llegheny Order your copy today! www.alleghenycemetery.com Cemetery A Advanced orders can be placed is proud to by calling 412-682-1624 with your announce the release of its credit card ready, or, returning new self-titled book, pub- your check made payable to the lished via Arcadia and The Allegheny Cemetery Historical History Press, on December Association in the amount of $21.99 5, 2016! Arcadia’s “Images of + $4.00 shipping for a total of $25.99. America” series has made its Be sure to include your return mark celebrating local history address and look for your copy in and Allegheny Cemetery will Torrence M. Hunt, Jr., Chairman of the Board William Duff McCrady Vice-Chairman of the Board the mail a week before it appears in now join the ranks of other stores! Proceeds of these sales go Mrs. George B. Berger, Jr. James M. Edwards George B. Miller Harton S. Semple, Jr. historic cemeteries that have directly to the Allegheny Cemetery Kay Ebbert Bissell Lisa C. Fagan Lulu Orr William H. Simpson been featured across the na- Historical Association, a 501(c)3 Charles Bosiljevac Henry C. Flood, Jr. Martha Reed George T. Snyder tion. The authors, Nancy Non-Profit Organization dedicated Dr. Ellsworth Bowser J. Pennock Graham Scott W. Reid J. Brandon Snyder Foley and Lisa Speranza, are George E. Childs Alexander Hays, IV Fred L. Rose William P. Snyder, V to preserving the heritage and familiar names for their work George B. Davis Henry Phipps Hoffstot, III Walter F. Rutkowski Ramsey C. Speer historic property of Allegheny on The Heritage, though the John H. Demmler Stuart Nye Hutchison, III Ellis L. Schmidlapp Mary M. Unkovic Cemetery. Harmar D. Denny, IV Jay Knowles Thomas M. Schmidt Joseph C. Walton expanded scope of the book al- Roy G. Dorrance, III Lisa Childs Laskow Henry C. Scully H. Knox Watson, III lows for a more intimate view A signed copy, including a Genevieve M. Ebbert Richard B. Meyer Edward W. Seifert Joshua C. Whetzel, III of Allegheny’s storied past. special note of thanks from Readers are sure to enjoy this collec- tion of legendary tales as well as lit- the authors, will be our gift James C. McGough Inside tle-known details recovered through to donors at the $200.00 level recent scholarship. Every page will President’s Message 2 feature images, many from the Cem- and above. Catch an exclusive Pittsburgh First Tailor 3 etery’s own historic archives, and Dr. Ellsworth Bowser Stuart Nye Hutchison, III Thomas M. Schmidt sneak peek of stories in this some so rare they have yet to be seen George B. Davis Lisa Childs Laskow Edward W. Seifert Honor and Memory Gifts 4-5 in print! collection on pages 6 and 7! Harmar D. Denny, IV William Duff McCrady Mary M. Unkovic Coffee & Cowboys 6 Joseph C. Walton James M. Edwards Lulu Orr Sylvania Coffin 7 Lisa C. Fagan Scott W. Reid H. Knox Watson, III Board of Corporators 8 Torrence M. Hunt, Jr. Ellis L. Schmidlapp ALLEGHENY CEMETERY HERITAGE is a publication of the Allegheny Cemetery Sylvania Catherine Coffin, Noble Hero Historical Association. by Lisa Speranza © 2016 Allegheny Cemetery Historical Association ylvania (Sylvia) Catherine Coffin, her in the journey. Those that were not already nurses BOARD OF DIRECTORS President’s S daughter of James & Isabella Coffin, found a life that of the Red Cross were sworn into the organization on Harmar D. Denny, IV President and Chairman of the Board took her far from her beginnings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. the platform just before they set sail. When the nurses Torrence M. Hunt, Jr. ear friends Message Sylvia was an 8th generation descendant of Tristram Coffin, and troops disembarked, there were already 100 sick Vice President men awaiting them. James M. Edwards D AND SUPPORTERS, who arrived to the ‘New World’ in 1642, and settled his family in Treasurer as the public well remembers, Allegh- Nantucket, CT. The Very Reverend George L.W. Werner Together, the women of the Red Cross faced “a filthy Director eny Cemetery’s historic 1848 Butler Generations later, Sylvia’s travels took her to New York, ship, a grossly insufficient medical and nursing force, Street entrance gate was destroyed where she joined an organization that we know today as the EMERITUS lack of medicines, lack of food, a polluted water sup- by a motor vehicle collision on Janu- tions, identical to the originals. The raw cast American Red Cross. It was 1898, and the organization was James C. McGough ply, great consequent suffering for the men, and eight of ary 1, 2015. We stood at the Butler Street vertical sections from the foundry were then still in its infancy, having been founded only a few short their attendants infected - inexcusable conditions, need- PAST DIRECTORS entrance in horror and disbelief the next precision machined to fit tightly to one another years before in 1881. Sylvia became one of the very first nurs- Charles C. Arensberg, Esq. day, the two cast iron gate panels were per the detailed engineering drawings CMIS less agonies, and at least one death” (Pittsburgh Daily J. Mabon Childs es associated with the benevolent organization. ripped from their hinges and scattered in produced. The computer guided machine work Post, 6 Nov 1898). Torrence M. Hunt, Sr. completed, a strong structural steel frame was Raymond F. Moreland hundreds of pieces! As with any crisis, we As the 19th century drew to a close, the Spanish-American engineered and fabricated to hold the sections During the course of her care for them, Sylvia contract- John C. Oliver, III took one manageable step at a time. War and the Cuban War of Independence raged, with Amer- William A. Seifert, Jr. securely and to incorporate replacement hing- ed the deadly and dangerous typhoid fever that would The process began by collecting all of the ican troops being sent deep into Cuba. On one of those ships, Rev. William S. Thomas ing and mounting mechanisms. take her life, only a short two months later. scattered parts to evaluate if any existing with many of those troops, Sylvia sailed into a fate that she DESIGN AND PRODUCTION pieces of the original gate would be reusable; The project was certainly a challenge to main- couldn’t have imagined. A small contingent of nurses joined Nancy E. Foley it soon became abundantly clear that this was tain the exact replication of the original cast- In perhaps a most touching, fitting, and understated Chris Letzelter ings and incorporate modern manufacturing conveyance, these women were described as “the no- David J. Michener going to be a long and difficult “replication” Co-Editors and Designers process instead of a repair. Original plans and machining techniques, all of which took blest heroes of the war. {They} clearly understood the were not available, only historic photographs considerable time. The long awaited moment dangers they were facing, and faced them as unknown CONTRIBUTORS and hundreds of small pieces of the destroyed finally arrived when, on the 20th of May 2016, individuals, with no incentive except love of country James M. Edwards a truck pulled up with two brand new gate Nancy E. Foley original gate! Therefore, the design and detail and of humanity, without the support of excitement, Lisa Speranza would have to be reverse engineered. Cus- panels, weighing in at 1,600 pounds each, exact of applause, or lively comradeship or of possible fame. tom Manufacturing and Industrial Services replicas of the originals, clad in their new high They have no military funerals, no monuments at the ALLEGHENY CEMETERY (CMIS), located only blocks away from the tech black epoxy protective coating. The gates HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION public expense. But a finer memorial has been erected, were hung on all new foundations and column The Association is based on a concept set forth by Cemetery, was engaged. unwittingly, by their own tender hands - in the heart the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. mounting points by Cemetery staff, assisted by A single example of one complete origi- of every American a deeper reverence for the name of Established March 17, 1980, the Association is a Custom Manufacturing. The installation, took non-profit educational and charitable organization nal cast vertical section (12 sections make place just in time for the annual Memorial Day woman. ... Those who, like Miss Coffin, are being laid which can accept foundation and other grants and up one gate panel) was carefully pieced to- provides tax exempt status for gifts and bequests parade to proudly march through that new gate! to rest in these days with the Red Cross on their arms gether from shards and chunks, and taken from organizations and individuals. It was certainly a proud moment to be there to say mutely yet how clearly: “There is a still greater to an expert who produced a pattern for an Through the PH&LF’s efforts, the entire Allegheny see the parade’s grand entrance with many of love; the love of a woman who lays down her life for Cemetery and its buildings were given Landmark iron foundry to cast 24 new vertical sec- status and placed on the National Register of those responsible for the production and instal- strangers”. (Quotation by M.G. Van Rensselaer, New Historic Places. lation of the new gate also in attendance. York, 29 Oct 1898). Individuals or organizations wishing information on funding or supporting specific restoration As stewards of Allegheny Cemetery, we are projects are invited to contact the Office of the proud to have been able to provide an exact Sylvia Catherine Coffin died on 29 Oct 1898, and now President at Allegheny Cemetery. rests amongst the shaded grounds and gently sloping A copy of the official registration and financial replica of the original historic gate that can information may be obtained from the proudly stand open in welcome for many gen- hills of Section 2, Lot 104 in Allegheny Cemetery. Pennsylvania Department of State by calling erations to come. I thank you for your contin- toll-free, within Pennsylvania: 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement. ued support of our mission. Sincerely, Allegheny Cemetery Historical Association 412-682-1624 Fax: 412-622-0655 www.alleghenycemetery.com To learn more about disaster preparedness and other ini- tiatives, contact the American Red Cross of Southwest- Harmar D. Denny, IV ern PA at 888-217-9599 (toll-free). September 2016 2 7 Coffee & Cowboys Pittsburgh’s First Tailor by Nancy Foley by James M. Edwards during the Civil War at 22 years old. Ca- word “closer” in this piece is as “cheaper.” including a peppermint stick in each ong before Folgers girls and featured an on-board salon, recre- leb worked on Second Street, and lived on In case the reader had missed the charac- L was the best part of waking up, bag as a prize for whoever ground the ational center and café. Third. His sons Caleb, Jr., and Andrew terization of the deceased as a miser, they Arbuckle’s “Ariosa” blend was keeping beans, along with coupons and trad- Upon John’s retirement, The Arbuckle Cof- Jackson Lee, bought him out of his busi- continued, “He grew stingier than ever, America going full steam ahead. John ing cards featuring colorized images ness in about 1852, whereupon he bought got afraid he would die in the poor house, fee Company was sold to a much smaller Arbuckle was the first man to discov- of exotic locations, animals and world over 1,000 acres of land north of Hulton Mrs. Lee got no money but the butter outfit; their name- Maxwell House. er a way to air-roast coffee beans and wonders. Originally, the Arbuckle’s Road, all the way up to where Oakmont money at the farm, and there he brooded.” property was on “Coffey Way,” an then coat them with a sugar glaze to John Arbuckle lived from 1839 to 1912, and is Country Club sits. Perhaps he had stuck the reporter for the keep them fresh for shipment all over alley off Sixth Avenue named for it, buried in Section 16, Lot 179. With twelve other investors, Caleb Pittsburgh Daily Post with a pin, and this the country where they’d be ground though at its height it occupied a dozen invested in what became the Allegheny piece was his revenge! for brewing. Prior to Arbuckle’s, cus- blocks along the East River in Brook- Valley Railroad between Pittsburgh tomers purchased whole green coffee lyn, NYC, where it also housed the and Kittanning. beans which they then had to roast Arbuckle’s own sugar refinery. In 1862, the same year his son died at over an open flame in order to grind John Arbuckle used his mega fortune (33 war, a malady attacked his mind, and and brew a pot. The process was long rendered him unfit, not of body, but of and often resulted in scorched beans Million at his time of death) to give gen- erously, using his own personal fleet of mental acuity. A committee was formed and a different quality to each and ev- to conduct his business. ery cup. Arbuckle’s patented method fully rigged merchant ships as housing His family, his parents, widow, and a made him the “King of Coffee” – his for the working poor, particularly young handful of his children, are buried in a product was so widely received in the women who traveled to New York alone and were otherwise vulnerable. The ap- prominent lot in Section 7, lot 41, overlook- “Wild West,” most cowboys didn’t ing the Third Church Colony, and within propriately named “Arbuckle’s Deep Sea An illustration of the Arbuckle plants in know there was any other brand. The sight of the Alexander Hays memorial in Hotel” provided safe housing for factory Brooklyn, New York Judge William Wilkins brothers were savvy marketers as well, the heart of Allegheny Cemetery. Caleb was a member of the Baptist convention. aleb Lee (1800 - 1878) came A mean-spirited writer at the Pittsburgh C at nine years old with his large family Daily Post botched their 1878 obituary of from Poughkeepsie, NY, to Pittsburgh in Caleb Lee. So intent on spite, he reported and the young Eaton lived as a bona with Howard that would span their lives. 1809. Self-taught and bright, he was especially Caleb’s age wrong by 20 years! Lee’s thrift, fide “cowboy,” in a one room shack In 1904, Eaton’s Ranch relocated to Wolf interested in history and geography. It was and shrewdness with a dollar became a while earning an income wrangling Creek, Wyoming, an expanse of 7,000 acres said later, “His intellect was keen and vigor- vice, here, “like most men in his situa- ous.” As he was not the firstborn, he needed cattle for sale to the railroad industry which still operates today. tion, the richer he got the closer he grew.” to make his own way. As a teenager, he was as it expanded its reach toward the Pa- The only way to understand the use of the Our hero was the subject of Mary Roberts apprenticed in the tailor trade. By 21, he was cific. Tales of encounters with Native Caleb Lee’s monument, Section 7, lot 41 Rinehart’s 1916 work, “Through Glacier in business for himself, at Second and Mar- Americans and what became known as ket Streets, beneath a sign that said “C.Lee, Park; Seeing America First with Howard “The Wild West” lured Howard’s two Draper and Taylor.” Caleb Lee was Pittsburgh’s first tailor, Eaton” which recalls the author’s exhilarat- a man who dressed the gentlemen who brothers and hordes of their wealthy He gathered the carriage trade: among his cus- ing 300 mile tour through the Rocky Moun- were building Pittsburgh. He helped city friends to visit. By 1882, the tomers were gentlemen, big names--Robert these handsome men to BE handsome tains with Howard as her guide. He is re- S. Cassatt(stockbroker, land speculator, and “Custer Trail Ranch” began accepting men. Caleb lived long enough to have a membered as being a deeply humble man, father to the impressionist, Mary Cassatt), $10 per week to sleep four to a bunk and hand at building some of it himself. At simple in wants but exceedingly gracious George A. Cook(Cashier of the First Nation- be served three farm-fresh meals a day, his death, he was estimated to be worth al Bank of Allegheny), John Snyder(Cashier in hospitality and an ardent conservation- over $1 million. In 1878, that was an im- not to mention guided tours of the Bad- of the Bank of Pittsburgh), the Hon. William ist. The “Howard Eaton Trail” at Yellow- pressive sum for a tailor to have amassed. lands by horse, plus hunting, fishing, Wilkins(Senator and congressman, in ad- stone is named in his honor. A large part of his land became River- shooting and cattle tying. Young bud- dition to being a judge!), Dr. McDowell(his front Park in Oakmont, as well as some daughter married Stephen Foster), and Wil- hough born the son ding politician, Teddy Roosevelt, read Howard Eaton lived from 1851 to 1922, and is of the commercial district along Alleghe- T liam Foster, Stephen’s own father. of a successful merchant, a about their adventures in a New York buried in Section 7, Lot 54. ny River Boulevard, and up the hill along seventeen year old Howard Eaton left paper, paid the ranch a visit and estab- Caleb married Margaret Wright Skelton, and Hulton Road. His dwelling, which grew his life of comfort in Pittsburgh and set lished his own neighboring property (Image courtesy of Frank & Kathy Eaton) she bore him 15 children over 25 years, the first to eleven rooms, burned in 1902. in 1823, the last in 1848. Of these, six survived out for the Dakota Territory alone in (in today’s National Park which bears to adulthood, three girls and three boys, one 1868. The West was then a raw frontier, his name) as well as a close friendship of which, Richard Henry Lee, died of typhoid Stephen Foster 6 3 Allegheny Cemetery Historical Association Allegheny Cemetery Historical Association Contributors Honor and Memory Gifts Individuals, Companies and Foundations October 2015 Campaign to September 2016 October 2015 Campaign to September 2016 In Memory Of... Gordon & Scully Families Clyde A. Garland, Jr. Eric David Marmo, Fred & Clara Anderson by Taylor G. Abbett by Joan M. Garland by Laura Anderson Smith Roy A. Hunt Foundation Mid Shore Community Foundation Lowrie Childs Ebbert Mr. & Mrs. Albert E. Mertens Charlie Jones & Betty Jean Miller by Allegheny Cemetery by Caroline M. Hass by Mary Smith Simpson Family Foundation The Walden Trust Edna Frazin Thomas O. Hornstein Norma Owens by Chrisie Ambrass by C. Hornstein by Sara Stout Connie A. Brown Harmar D. Denny, IV James M. Edwards Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Ehler Mr. & Mrs. Henry Phipps Hoffstot, Sr. & Jr. Loved Ones by Dr. & Mrs. John L. Ammer by Lora H. Jenkins by Myrna L. Sumpter Torrence M. Hunt, Jr. Harton S. Semple, Jr. William H. Simpson Mary & Natale Palazzo Harry J. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Fred J. Durner by Mr. & Mrs. J. Kenneth Appetta by Roberta Jones by Jane K. Thompson Charles & Florence Wessel Mary M. Allen John E. & Forrestine Timberlake Verna Adams Barbara Hazzard Daniel R. Pagath by Marilyn Archuleta by Mr. & Mrs. William Jones by John E. Timberlake, III Jennie Cestra Mr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Connelly Charles F. Brown Charles S. Arensberg Barbara A. Held Garry Pyles by Yolanda Bauer by Eugene C. Kaufman by Catherine Ulrich Harry & Margaret Erfley John Abdill Anthony Vivaldi John Bednarz F.W. Henninger John & Marirose Radelet by Awilda Erfley Becker by Frank & Eileen Lyndall Livezey by Carol Vivaldi G. William Bissell Henry Phipps Hoffstot, III Douglas P. Raymond Lowrie Childs Ebbert The Magee Family Chalfant, Blair & McKee Families by Mary Murtland Berger by Miwako M. Magee by James R. Wardrop Katharine Byrne Roger D. Hunt Scott & Anne Reid Robert F. Benson Thaw Family Ancestors George & Marybelle Washington by Bruce B. Benson by Jane Whitney Marshall by Carrie L. Washington Susan Curry Cadwalader Stuart N. Hutchison, III Anne Robertson Daphne Berry Hax McCullough Anna K. Weber by Aaron Berry by Jean H. McCullough by Harry P. Weber Karen B. Cahall Ronald & Marilyn Jennings Walter F. Rutkowski Thomas J. Byers The McGrew Family The Weigold Family by Debra L. Blevins by Verne & Margaret McGrew by Patricia Weigold Robert & Marcia Coleman T. Kearns Curtis S. Scaife Anna R. & Robert K. Brown, Florence Charles S. Bell & Myra Lindsay Boyd Bell Vincent Andreozzi & Harry Jacob by Nonnye Fanelli Meier by Karl Weiss Karen S. Coppess Charles Kelly Virginia Schatz by Susan Brown John Mellor Family & Berka Liska Exie Williams Amelia & Charles W. Callen by Amy L. Mellor by Theophelous Williams Helen Coyner Linda Kemmerling Mr. & Mrs. Ellis L. Schmidlapp by Charlotte N. Callen Mr. & Mrs. W. McCook Miller John H. Wilson Family John P. Davis, Jr. Bill Kennedy Jacqueline Schubert Stephen C. Foster by George Miller by John H. Wilson, III by Bernice I. Carfagna Norman & Martha McSwigan Cyndy Wudarczyk Barbara A. Ezdebski Arthur J. Kerr, Jr. Janet K. Seapker Andrew & Theresa Chorba by Martha J. Miller by James Wudarczyk by Betty M. Chorba Joseph Greenough Charles & Amelia Callen Thomas J. Fisher Charles & Angeline Kline Edward W. Seifert William H. & Nellie B. Reed by William Mitchell by Cynthia Zaber by Roland R. Creps J. Edgar Morris Family Charles Speck Robert K. Flack Mark C. Klingensmith John McHugh & Ms. Janet Self Irene & Alexander Brady Rutledge by Nancy Morris by Laverne Zemon Richard D. Flinn Arthur Lambert John Seville by Craig W. Damon Maxwell E. & Alice H. Noyes Norberta L. Wagner by Nancy Noyes by Laverne Zemon The Arnold Family Nancy Foley Mario Lanna Nancy Trocchio by Karlene A. Darby Nick Pappaterra Mr. & Mrs. Walter Zenk Clifford G. & Elizabeth J. Martin by Patricia Pappaterra by Robert W. Zenk K.E. Friend Susan Lanna John Clark & Missy M. Unkovic by Bonnie Davidson John T. Vollmer Mr. & Mrs. James O’Hara Denny, III by Rosemary Questiaux Gertrude C. Gebhardt Mark & Lisa Childs Laskow Joseph & Molly Walton by Mr. & Mrs. Harmar D. Denny, IV The Buchanans Jacob Goehring by Linda Buchanan Riccio In Honor of… Donald G. Goldstrom William Duff McCrady H. Knox Watson, III by Mr. & Mrs. Jan Devereaux David Michener John, Lorraine Riscoe by Mr. & Mrs. Harmar D. Denny, IV Anna R. & Robert K. Brown by Gerold Riscoe J. Pennock Graham David J. Michener Catherine E. Wray by Jean & Charles Dinwiddie Mr. & Mrs. William H. Simpson Walter F. & Frieda Dudt Rutkowski George E. Grimshaw Caroline O’Nan Jude A. Wudarczyk Thomas Marshall Howe Nimick by Walter Rutkowski by Mr. & Mrs. Harmar D. Denny, IV by Charles A. Fagan, III Allegheny West Neighbors The William Forman Bickel Family by Ann Gilligan Henry E. Haller, III Prentiss & Lulu Orr The Eaton Family by Susan Bickel Scioli by Henry C. Flood Wilson Kenney Family Arthur M. Scully, Jr. by Charles C. Kenney Marjorie Flood by Henry C. Scully by Suzanne Flood Peggy Garland Hattie Dines Debbie Fouch by Gayle & Bill Simpson by P. Waters by Tom Fouch 4 5