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j> i The Western Historical Magazine

INDEX Volume 49 1966

Published quarterly by THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF 4338 Bigelow Boulevard, , Pennsylvania

A Allentown Turner Hall, community center "A Springboard on Saw Mill Run," by for Germans, 259 Stanton C. Crawford, 97-110 Alt, Michael, saloon keeper, 258 A. W. Educational and Altenburger, Christine, "The Pittsburgh Bu- Mellon Charitable reau of Police: Some Historical High- Trust, architecture survey grant (1965), lights," 19-37 375 Altoona, Pa. (1863), impressions, 112-126 Adams, Michael, house burned (1801), 53 passim Advertisement by HSWP, of A Guide to Altoona machine shops (1863), 125 the Old Stone Blast Furnaces in Western Ambulance work, police function (c.1886), Pennsylvania by Myron B. Sharp and 31 William H. Thomas (1966), 182 American Bridge Company, buys land from Agnew, Sir Andrew, publishes (1864) A Harmony Society, 313 History of the Hereditary Sheriffs of Gal- American Iron Association (1869), 194 loway, 322, 326 American State Archives, by Ernst Posner Al-Sirat, Muslim bridge, 342 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964), rev., 159-160 Albree, Joseph (1836-1917), friend of Mat- Amherst, Sir Jeffrey (1763), 134 thew Brown Riddle, letter to (1850), 171 Amherst College (i869),(J869), 219 Alcuin, Warren County, Pa. religious com- Amoskeag Company, fire engine makers munity, better known as Alcuin Commu- (1861), 48 nity, Roman Catholic founder, 314-316; Anderson, Niles, and Edward G. Williams, eleven rigid rules, 314-315 article co-authors, 1-18, 141-154 Alexander, Eugene, Vigilant Fire Company Andrews, J. Cutler, rev. of McPherson's (1861), 48 The Struggle for Equality, Abolitionists Alexander, Mary, m.m, Robert Crawford and the Negro in the Civil War and Re- (c.1825), Allegheny River, Upper, 1, 3; 141, 142 Arrick, Joseph, captain of Niagara Fire Allen,Ann, 256 Company (1854), 47 Allen, Ethan, Vt. (1781), loyalty suspect, Arthurs, John, builder of part of Neptune 143 fire engine, 43 Allen,Ira, Vt., loyalty suspect (1781), 143 Association of Beneficents, spiritualism, 305; Allen, John, 256 inclusion of , Seneca, Thomas Allen, Joseph, English born South Side Jefferson and Emanuel Swedenborg, its butcher, 255, 256 purpose, 305 Allen, Joseph, Jr., 256 Assyriology, dates from Rawlinson (c.1840), Allen,Richard, 250 284-285 Allen, Sarah, 256 Atheneum Variety Theater, Pgh., burns Allen, Susie, 256 (1865), 53 Allen, Will S. (1867-1941), grandson of Atwood Street Sunday School, joins Union Joseph, funeral parlor in Allentown bor- School (c.1869), 217 ough, 256 Automobiles, Pgh. police use Model "T" Allen, William, 256 (1924), Willys Knight, "Blue Goose," 32 Allentown, Allegheny County borough Avenue Theater, burns (1905), 55 (1869-1874), 251; Allenfarm, 256 Axe factory, of John Holmes (1841), 101

3 B "Bellefield," farm of Neville B. Bailey, Francis, landowner, 98; m. Mary Craig (c.1850), 215 , 254 Bellefield Church (1889), oldest of buildings Baird, Thomas, vice president and first en- in its neighborhood, 213; small picture, gineer of Vigilant Fire Company (1815), 224 41 Bellefield Dwellings, Pgh., designed (1905) Baker, Anna (Annie), 112, 112ai, 114, 116, by Carlton Strong, 222 124, 197, 202, 208 Bellefield Presbyterian Church, photograph Baker, Elias, younger brother of Elizabeth (1890), opp. 216; photograph opp. 217 Baker Clemson, 112, 199, 202, 203 "Bellefield's Tower: The Centenary of the Baker, Hettie ("Auntie"), 112, Win, 116, Bellefield Presbyterian Church," -by James 206 D. Van Trump, 213-225 Baker, Luly, daughter of Woods Baker, 112 Beltsville, Md., Clemson house (1864), 111 Baker, R. L., co-administrator of Economy, Beltzhoover, Daniel, 254, 255 Pa., 311 Beltzhoover, Eliza, m. Rodney Patterson, Baker, Sarah, Episcopalian, intelligent, kind, 254 112, 121, 197, 199, 203,208 Beltzhoover, Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Mi- Baker, Sylvester, son of Elias, 112-126 pas- chael, mother of large family, 254 sim Beltzhoover, Elizabeth, daughter of Mel- Baker, Washington, jilted, 121 chor, 254 Baker, Woods, deceased son of Elias Baker, Beltzhoover, George, 254 208 Beltzhoover, Harriet, m. John Murray, 254, Baker House, Blair County, Pa., 112-126 255 passim Beltzhoover, Henry, 254 Bakewell, J. P., secretary of Firemen's Asso- Beltzhoover, Jacob, prominent in St. Clair ciation (1837), 46 Township, farmer, owner of tavern and Baldwin, Leland D., author, 100«, 101 tannery, 254 , Pa., 101 Beltzhcover, Mary, m. Francis Bailey, 254 Barker, Jeremiah, assistant engineer, Eagle Beltzhoover, Melchor, from Hagerstown, Fire Engine Co. (c.1794), 41 Md., buys (1794) large Ormsby acreage, Barker, Mayor Joseph, odd figure (1850), 254 23-25; mayor of Pittsburgh, lifeof, 171 Beltzhoover, Sarah, m. Dr. Frederick Baus- Barker-Williams Furniture Co., Pgh., burned man, six children, 254, 255 (1901), 54; second fire (1902), 55 Beltzhoover, Samuel, 254 Barkley, Prof. John M., author, 320n, 321 Beltzhoover, William, 254 Barnard, Gen. J. G., chief engineer, 331 Beltzhoover, Allegheny County borough Barr, James, Beltzhoover Borough burgess (1875-1897), 251 (1888-1889), 260 Beltzhoover Borough, enterprises such as Barton, Kate, 113, 119, 202 Reed's Saloon, Hummel's Beer Garden, Bausman, Dr. Frederick, m. Sarah Beltz- Koch's Drug Store, Klein's Grocery Store, hoover, 254; borough promoter (1800), Mathias' Dry Goods Store, Goodboy's 255 Barber Shop, not separately indexed, 258; Bausman, Henry, 255 burgesses (1875-1897), fifteen named, 260 Bausman, Jacob, South Side Pgh. German Benjamin Franklin: An American Man of innkeeper, ferry operator (1775) and Letters, by Bruce Ingham Granger (Itha- landholder, 254 ca, N.Y., 1964), rev., 80-83 Bausman, Jacob Beltzhoover, 255 Benjamin Franklin and Pennsylvania Poli- Bausman, Pressley Neville, 255 tics, by William S. Hanna (Stanford, Bausman, Sarah, daughter of Dr. Frederick Calif., 1964), rev., 80-82 Bausman, 255 Best Manufacturing Co., Pgh., brass fittings, Bausman, , 255 factory and warehouse, fire (1900), 54 Beatty, Smith, landowner, 98 Bethlehem, Pa., Moravian College, 219 Beaver Creek, several branches. See Beaver Bible: Biblical history, "one of the most River, 141 ancient of human records," the "Scrip- Beaver River, Pa., many crossings, 5, 141 tures," 281 Bedford, Dr. Nathaniel, m. Jane Ormsby, Bingham, Gov., Michigan delegate (1856), laid out Birmingham village, 254 295 Belfast, Ireland, the first "boom" town, 325- Birmingham, early name of Pgh. South Side, 326 254, 256 Belfour, Dr. Stanton, President, HSWP, ap- Black Horse Troop, mounted police patrol, proves publication of condensed reports, Pgh. (1906-1954), 32 172; In Memoriam of Stanton C. Craw- Blackmore, Mayor James (1868), 26 ford, 179; 228; address on Falk book, Bladensburg, Md., home of Clemsons, 1 11 272-276; tourist guide, on 1966 tour, 378; Blair,Francis P., Md. delegate (1856), pres- reviews thirty-six previous tours, 378 ident of convention, "Southern" Platform, Bell, Thompson, land lessee, 99, 104 292

4 Blairsville, Indiana County, Pa., 189, 190 148/1 Blazing Star Prairie, Butler County, Pa. 147n Brooke County, Va. (1819), John Craw- Blockhouse, at Erie (1760), description, 146, ford, 104 153/1 Brown, James W., and Hannah Brown sell Boat, French, on (c.1673), 128 land (1843), 104, 105 Boggs, George, member of Pittsburgh Fire Brown, John, built the Stone House Tavern Department (1823), 41 (1822), 147/1147/t Bon Homme, Dakota Territory, Hutterite Brown, Joseph Owen, Pgh. Director of Pub- settlement, aided by Economists, 312 lic Safety (1887/.), 28 Bonaparte, Napoleon, took scientists to Brown, Marvin L., Jr., author and editor, Egypt (1798), 283 see under Riedesel, publication, rev., 162- Books, published by HSWP, three named, 164 two in process, and one presented, 273- Brown, Capt. Samuel, Pgh., Squirrel Hill, 274 mansion burns (1913), 55 Borough system, in Pennsylvania, 253; forty Brown's Island, ferry site, 104 boroughs absorbed by Pittsburgh (1837- Brownsville Road, early main route south 1926), 253 from Pittsburgh, 251, 252, 253 Boston, financed W. Pa. lumber production, Bruce, Edward C, authority on Phila. Ex- 191 hibition, 340n, 342 Boston Spiritual Age (1858), 307 Buchanan, Capt. (at Presque Isle, 1795), Boundary Line of 1768, treaty of Fort Stan- 249 wix,136, 138 Buck Tavern, on Brownsville Road, 253 Bouquet, Col. Henry, 3, 141, 148/z,148«, 152/z,152n, Buffalo, N. Y. (1864), 211 154 Bull, Capt. Thomas, Indian spy (1759), 151 Bowman, Chancellor John, Univ. of Pgh., Bullitt, Capt. Thomas, Indian attack (1793), 227; as precursor of the Pittsburgh Ren- 17nYin aissance, 273 Bureau of Land Records, Harrisburg, 143, Boyd trunk factory, Pgh. , burns 147/1 (1908), 14 killed, 55 Burges, George, surveyor, 231-250 passim Bracken, Thomas, Viligant Fire Company Burgesses: Pittsburgh (c.1802), 19 waterman (1815), 41 Burnet, Gov. William (1688-1729), of New Braddock, Gen. Edward, authorized to cap- York, 129 ture Niagara (1754), defeated (1755), 130 Burroughs, delegate (1856) sug- Brady, James, Pgh. South Side landholder, gests anti-slavery argument, 293 254 Bursztynowicz, Mrs. Louise Evans, gift in Brant, Joseph, Indian, 238, 239 memory of Cadwallader Evans, Jr., 180 Breed & Brewer, cotton factory in Northern Burtis, J. W., president of elevated railway Liberties, burns (1832), 53 (1878), 331 Bridges: , 98, 100; Daugherty's Bushnell, Daniel, Oakland property (1837), Mill,147/1147n 214 Brisbane, Arthur, distinguished Association- Butcher's Grove, South Side picnic site, later ist (1844), 303 McKinley Park, 259 The British Empire Before the American Butler, James R., member of Pittsburgh Fire Revolution. Vol. XI: The Triumphant Department (1832), 41; gentleman, 42 Empire: The Rumbling of the Coming Butler, Richard, Pa. commissioner to Indi- Storm, 1766-1770, by Lawrence Henry ans (1794), 238 Gipson (N.Y., 1965), rev., 359-360 Byrne, Loretta P., rev. of Baroness von Britt, Mrs. A.M., spiritualist address (1858), Riedesel and the : 307-308 Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Brodhead, Gen. Daniel (1779), 2, 143, 147ai,147n, Duty, 1776-1783, 162-164

cC 203 C. Ihmsen, glass house on Pgh. South Side Calvert, Mrs. Charlotte Augusta Norris, 115, burns (1854), 53 117, 122, 197, 198,206 Cadwalader, Henry, Director, Historical So- Calvert, Ella, daughter of Charles B., 115, ciety of Pennsylvania, 143 115«,201 Caldwell, John, tanner, lumber merchant, Cameron, Miss Jennie, daughter of Simon fire company member, 42 (1864), 205, 205az,205/z, 209 Calhoun, Anna Maria, m. Thomas G. Clem- Campbell, Mrs. Ella Calvert, 118, 122 son, 110, l\5n\\5n Campbell, James, partner of Robert Craw- Calhoun, John C, distinguished S. C. sena- ford, commission business (c.1841), 102 tor, 111 Campbell & Dick, dry goods store, Pgh., Calhoun, Mrs. John C. (1863), 115 burns (1887), 54 California, admitted as free state, 297 Canada Creek, mouth of, Indian boundary Calvert, Charles Benedict (1863), 115/1,115n, point on Wood Creek (1768), 138

5 Canal Basin, Pgh., warehouses burn (1853), 152 53 Chenusios (Shawnees ?), 1764 conference, Canandaigua Conference (1794), 239 136 Canonsburg (1850), Jefferson College, 171 Cherokee River, not rightly the southern Car-Builders Association (1875), railway boundary of suzerainty, 137 cars, 331 Chester Valley, a garden spot (1863), 113 Carlisle, James D., assistant superintendent Chicago and North Western Railroad of Union Sunday School (1863), 215; (c.1850), 193 deacon (1866), 217 Chicago Tribune, 110 Carlisle, Pa., list (1751) by mercantile in- Christ Methodist Episcopal Church,' Pgh., solvency, 57 downtown, burns (1891),54 Carlson, Hilda (Mrs. Rod Carlson), Alcuin Christie, Robert D., Director HSWP, report Community (1940), 315 for 1965, 172-174, not fully indexed; tour- Carlson, Rod, farmer, renter, Alcuin Com- ist guide (on tour of 1966), 378 munity (1940), 315 The Chronicle, Pgh. (1850), 24 Carlyle, Thomas, article (1863), 122; con- "Citizen," Pgh. steam fire engine (c.1830), cept of history, 280 46 Carmer, Listen for a Lonesome Drum (N.Y., City Hall, taken down (1952), Pgh. ar- 1936), 301, 30\n301rc chives scattered, 52 Carnahan, Rev. D. T., pastor (1868) of Civil Service, extended to Pgh. police Bellefield Church, 217 (1907), 26 Carnahan, Samuel, ferry, 99, 100 CivilWar (1861), 48; Union army chaplain, Carnegie, Andrew, provides (1900) funds 171 for Carnegie Institute of Technology, 222 Claesson, Lawrence, N. Y. messenger to Carnegie Company, Homestead plant (1892), Senecas, 129 51 Clark, Gen. George Rogers (1781), 142, Carnegie Institute, paintings, 100; first 147/1 building (1891-1895), 222 Clarke, Thomas C, engineering partner, Carnegie Institute and Technological Col- host (1875), 331 leges, 227 Clarke, Reeves & Co., Phoenix subsidiary, Carnegie Library, Pgh., 6; Pennsylvania bridge building, 194; rapid transit pro- Room, Reference department, 144 moter (1875), 331, 336 Carnegie Museum, William J. Holland, di- Clay, Cassius M., letter to Pgh. convention rector (1898-1922), 219 (1856), attacks slave oligarchy, 294 Casino Building, Schenley Park, Pgh., burns Clemson, Anna Maria Calhoun, 110, 115, (1896), 54 \\5n Cathedral of Learning, Univ. of Pgh. build- Clemson, Calhoun, 201 ing, 223, 227 Clemson, Floride, correspondence (1862), Catholics (Roman), 556 in Belfast (1757), diarist, 112-126; religious ideas, 198-200 326; oppressed, 328 Clemson, John Calhoun, son of Thomas G., Cattaraugus County, N. Y. lumbering area, Ill,118 187, 189 Clemson, Louisa, sister of Thomas G. Clem- Cemetery: Beltzhoover family plot replaced son, m. Samuel Washington, a great neph- by a theatre, 261 ew of , 206, 206rc Census of 1790, first Census, Clemson, Mary, daughter of John Baker Pennsylvania records extant, 327 Clemson, 119, 119«, 121, 201, 203 Centennial Exhibition, (1876), Clemson, Sallie, daughter of John Baker 185, 335 Clemson, 121, 198 "Centennial Group of Deceased Citizens of Clemson, Sue, 114, 202 Steubenville and Vicinity" (1897), in Clemson, Thomas G., m. Anna Maria Cal- Doyle's History, 110 houn, 111, 116, 201 Chadwick, James, Oakland magnate (1836), Clemson, William, brother of Thomas G., 214 114, 114/z, 202 Chapin, Gen. Israel, U. S. Indian agent Cleopatra, River expedition (1859), (1794), 236 of members of Sacred Order of Unionists, Charles I,King (1625), 321 308-309 Charles II,Restoration (1660), 322 Cleveland, Ohio (1864), 211 Charleston, S. C, holds out valiantly Clifton House, on Canada side of Niagara (1863), 122, 198, 201, 204, 207 Falls (1864), 211 Charlton, Capt. James, killed (1868) in Clinton, Gov. George (N.Y.), returns Pgh. South Side fire, 53 (c.1748) enslaved Indian children, 63 Chase, Salmon P., in Pgh. (1855), 290, 291 Clinton, Gen. Sir Henry (1779), 142, 143 Chautauqua, steamer, explodes (1871), 53 Clow, J. B., Vigilant Fire Company proper- Chautauqua Lake Ice Company, Pgh., ty man (1815), 41 burned in Pike Street fire (1898), 54 Coal, Little Saw Mill Run Railroad, 98, Chaussegros de Lery, French engineer, 151- 101; ore "digging, washing and burning"

6 near Altoona (1863), 120 Crawford, Amanda (£.1838), 102; daughter "Coal Hill," later Mt. Washington, 253; of John, 106, 108, 109, 110 Pgh. (c.1870), 258 Crawford, Elizabeth, daughter of John, 106 Codding, Ichabod, Illinois delegate (1856), Crawford, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert 291 (1825), 102; m. William Ledlie Craw- Coffen, Stephen, prisoner of French, es- ford, 109 capes, deposition (1764), 15In Crawford, George, son of John, 106 Colbert, Jean, French , 128 Crawford, George, son of William Ledlie, Columbus, steam boat (1842), 103 109 Columbus and Hope, fire engines of the Crawford, James, son of John, 106 town of Allegheny (1830), 45; also name Crawford, John, brother ofRobert, 102 of company, 46 Crawford, John, son of Robert, b. 1830?, Commission business, articles bonded, 103 102 Committee on Permanent Organization Crawford, John, son of William Ledlie, 109 (1856), 292; also Committee on National Crawford, Mary Anderson (1809-1902), Organization, four recommendations, 294- 2nd wife of Robert Crawford, 102, 106, 295 110 Commonwealth (British), set up by Crom- Crawford, Mary Porter, 106, 107 well, 321 Crawford, Mary, daughter of William Led- Company C, a Pgh. fire fighters' legion in lie, 109 12th Regiment, Pa. Res. Vol. Corps Crawford, Nancy, daughter of William Led- (1861), 48 lie, 109 Conemaugh River (1864), "very beautiful," Crawford, Robert, immigrant, 97; land- 210 owner, 100, 102 "A Confederate Girl Visits Pennsylvania, Crawford, Samuel, brother of Robert, 102 July-September, 1863," ed. Ernest M. Crawford, Selina, daughter of Robert, 102, Lander, Jr., 111-126; 197-211 m. Rev. Samuel Miller, 110 Conneauttee Creek, 150n Crawford, Stanton C, "A Springboard on Connolly, Lt. Col. John (1781), 142 Saw Mill Run," 97-110; In Memoriam Connoquenessing Creek, Pa., 6, 9, 41 page by Stanton Belfour, President of Connoquenessing Valley, Harmony settle- HSWP, 179 ment (1807-1815), 310 Crawford, Susan, daughter of William Led- Constable, Pitt Township, duties mainly lie Crawford, 109 civil,19 Crawford, Col. William (1782), 4 Continental Congress (1781), 147n Crawford, William, d. young, 103 Contrecoeur, Captain Claude-Pierre Pec- Crawford, William,son of John, 106 audy, Sieur de, 3 Crawford, William, son of William Ledlie, Cornplanter, Indian chief (c. 1794), 236 109, 110 Cornwallis, Lord Charles, at Yorktown Crawford, William Ledlie, m. Elizabeth (1781), 143 Crawford, his cousin, 109 Cotton factory, Pgh., burns (1832), 53 Cresson (1836), 123, 124, 202 Coues, Elliot, ed., History of the Expedi- Crew, Mr., Apelika, Alabama, early inven- tion Under the Command of Lewis and tor of monorail, 192 Clark (N.Y., 1965), rev. 263-265 Croghan, George, great fur trader, head- County Down, Ireland, goal of Scottish quarters at and at Pickawillany settlers (1605), 320 (c.1750), controlled one thirdof the three Cove Valley, W. Va. territory, 107; families hundred traders, ruined by the sack of named as Browns, Campbells, Griffiths, Pickawillany (c.1752), 59; Letter (1764) Millers, Orrs, Mahans, Morrows, Owings, to Lords of Trade, 133; biog. sketch, Lees, Hookers, Tarrs; Patterson, Swear- 133/i,133/1, 137 ingen, Purdy, Chapman, Carothers, Hal- Crommelin, Louis (1689), "Overseer of the lock, Stedman, Knox, Gullette, Heaslett, Royal Linen Manufacturing," 325 Hindman, Brice and Shimer, 107 Cromwell, Oliver, establishes Engagement Covenant, in Scotland, opposed by Charles Oath inIreland (1650), 321 I,321, 326, 327 Cuba, N. Y., village, 186, 192, 337, 339 Covenant, National, signed (1638), 325 Cumming, John, "George Burges and the Cowles, Alpheus, member of Sacred Order Erie Triangle," 231-250 of Unionists (1860/.), 309 Cupples, A. J., first hose director (1854) of Coyle, Dr. Campbell, pastor of Bellefield Niagara Fire Company, 47 Presbyterian Church (1910-1915), 222, Cures (c.1880), carbon oil, elderberry tea, 223 kalbchen butter, 260 Craig, Isaac (1781), 147n Cussewago, Indian village, 150/., 244 Craig, Neville B., Oakland farm (c.1850), , Delaware Nation Indian chief, 215 149 Craig and O'Hara, glass factory, 101 Custaloga's Town, on French Creek, 144, Cramer, Zadok, policing petition (1803), 20 149/z Crawford, A.M., 104

7 D Denny, Harmar D., gift in memory of, 180 Dahlinger, Charles M., author, 100 Department of Public Safety, Pgh. (1887), Daily Dispatch, building burns (1877), 54 28 Daily Graphic (1875), 335 Detroit (1760), British occupation (1760), Dalzell, Kathleen, gift in memory of Oliver 4; (1763), besieged, not captured, 135; Evans, 181 141, 143; (1795), 247, 248 Dambach, L.Earl, gift inmemory of, 180 Diehl, William J., clerk of Pgh. Board of Dana, Charles A., distinguished Associa- Fire Commissioners (1870), 50 tionist (1844), 303 Dieterich, Gustave, poster designer, 336, Darlington Memorial Library, Univ. of 337 Pgh., 6, 144 Dilworth, Porter & Co., Ltd., Pgh. South Darragh, John, Vigilant Fire Company Side department store burns (1901), 55 waterman (1815), 41 Dinwiddie, Gov. Robert, of Va. (1754), Daub, Freda, 115, 115/z, 202 \5\n Daub, Mrs. Lizette, housekeeper of Clem- Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Cities sons, 115, 115/1, 117, 119, 202, 203 by Harris (1841), 101 Davidson, William, West Bridgewater, Pa., Disneyland, monorail amusement ride, 186 lumber and glass enterprise, 311 Dodge, Mrs. Mary E., Bladensburg, 206ai Davidson, William, Jr., lessee of Economy The Dollar Savings Bank, buys (1869) old oilinterests in Warren County, Pa., 313 Daniel Ross property, sells it (1870) to Davis, Thomas, Vigilant Fire Company Isaac M.Ross, 372 property man (1815), 41 Domain (also Harmonia or Spiritual Springs) Davison, John S., superintendent of Union Utopian settlement, 304-309 Sunday School (1863), 215, 216, 217 Donaghadee, Ireland, port of entry from Dawson, Charles T., wrote Our Firemen: Galloway (1662/.), 323 The History of the Pittsburgh Fire De- Donegal, North Ireland, 97 partment (1889), 40, 4\n Dougan, Gov. Thomas, of N.Y., licenses Day, John C, Beltzhoover Borough burgess fur traders (1685), 129 (1878), 260 Douglas, Samuel, attorney, fire company Day, William, Pgh. councilman, arrested member, 42 (1850), 24 Drake, E. L., strikes oil near Titusville Deardorff, Merle H., Indian history, 149n (Aug. 27, 1858), 312 Decade (1840-1850), era of great group Duckworth, Mrs. Marydeana, descendant of activity, 305 George Burges, 231 Delaware River, terminal of boundary line Duffy, James, landowner, 98 (1768), 138 Duncans Creek, on the Monongahela, In- Democratic Party (1854/.), loses its na- dian raid (1792), 248 tional aspect, 289 Dunlavy, Jeremiah, landowner, 98; ferry Denny, Maj. Ebenezer, rebuilt Fort Le seller (1837), 100 Boeuf (1794), 4; 18«; policing petition Duquesne Company, seceders from Vigilant (1803), 20, 148/1, 151/1,151rc, 235,236 Company (1842), 47 Denny, Mrs. Elizabeth F., land buyer Duquesne Greys, Pgh. (1838), 47 (1870), 99 Duss, John, last trustee of Harmony So- Denny, Harmar, member of Pittsburgh Fire ciety, disposed of assets of many kinds, Department (1832), 21; landowner, 98, 313 99, 104

E Edgar, William, captain of Neptune Fire E. & F. Faber, maker of first fire engine of Company, 43 Niagara Fire Company, Pgh. (1838), 47 Edict of Nantes, revocation, Huguenot emi- Eagle Fire Engine and Hose Company, Pgh. gration, 325 (1794), 41,42, 43, 44, 46 Edmundson & Perrine, warehouse, burns Eagle Woolen Mills, Allegheny, fire (1833), (1897), 54 53 Education, college routine and life (1850), Earhart, Mr. & Mrs. Will, promoters of 171 school singing of Foster songs, 228 The Educator, book by John Murray Spear East Liberty Presbyterian Church, burns (1857), 306 (1888), 54 Egyptology, dates from Champollion, 284 East Liberty vandalism (1869), 49 Eichbaum, William, first engineer of Eagle Economites, railroad builders, 101, 317 Fire Engine and Hose Company (1811- Economy (now Ambridge, Pa.), founded by 1832), 41; first engineer of Firemen's Harmonists (1825), 311 Association (1837), 46 Economy Oil Company, operations near Eichbaum, William,Oakland estate, 214 Tidioute, Pa., 312, 313, 317 Eichbaum, William, Jr., wire and glass

8 manufacturer, bank director, member of Presbyterians inIreland, 321 fire company, 42 Episcopal Church, in Ireland, swept away Eichbaum Printing Co., Pittsburgh fire in massacre (of1641), 321 (1900), 54 Erie, Pa., settlement begins (1795), 4, 231 Eichley, John, successfully operated South Erie Railroad, Vandalia, N. Y., 189, 328 Side "bus line," 257 Erie Triangle, Pa., in early Federal years, Elder, Margaret, author, 100 1,4; (1784), 151n, 231, 232 Elevated railways (Els), 188; (1875), Ernest, Anthony, member of Pittsburgh Greenwich Street Elevated, Brooklyn Fire Department (1832), 41 Elevated Railroad, New York Elevated Errett, Russell, writer on fire fighting, 42 Railroad, 321 Etna Glass Company, William Davidson Elizabeth I, of , first cousin of enterprise, failure, Harmonist control, 211 James VI,of Scotland, 319 Etzler, J. A., German Utopian author, Ellicott, Andrew, report (1794), 148n, 151/i; The Paradise Within the Reach of All surveyor, 231 Men and The New World or Mechanical Ellicott,Andrew, Jr., surveyor, 241 System, 303, 3O3n ,David, land grants, surveyed (1784), Eureka Pipe Line Company, right-of-way, 100 107 Elliott,John, landowner, 98 Evans, Cadwallader, Jr., gift in memory of, Elliott,Joseph, landowner, 98 180 Elliott, Robert C, Vigilant Fire Company Evans, Mrs. Henry Oliver, gift in memory (1861), 48; clerk of Pittsburgh Board of of Cadwallader Evans, Jr., 180; gift in Fire Commissioners (1870), 50 memory of Mrs. Martha Pepper Stengel, Elliott, West, landowner (1822), 98 276 "Elliotts" and "Elliotts Design," land grants, Evans, Jesse, surveyor (1795), 241, 245 surveyed (1784), 100 Evans, Oliver, gift in memory of Cadwal- Elmira, N. Y., industrial center (1872), 188 lader Evans, Jr., 180; three gifts in mem- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, concept of history, ory of, 181 280 Ewing, William S., rev. of Posner's Ameri- Encyclopedia Britannica, cited, 319, 320, can State Archives (Univ. of Chicago 322, 323, 324, 325, 326 Press, 1964), 159-160 Engagement Oath (1650), of submission to Eyre, Col. John, journal (PMHB, III,305), Cromwellian Commonwealth, rejected by 149n, 151n

F Federal Street, Allegheny, Pa., fire (1874); Fahnestock's drug house burns (1854), 53 199 buildings destroyed or damaged, 53 Fair, atPgh. (1795), 250 Ferguson, Cyrus, real estate, 107 Fairman, Thomas, Vigilant Fire Company Ferries: 99, 100, 104; Upper Ferry, Middle waterman (1815), 41 Ferry, Lower Ferry, Steubenville, 108 Fairmount, Pgh. Volunteer Fire Company Fifth Presbyterian Church, Pgh., burns (c.1869), 49 (1851), 53 Fairmount Park, Phila. (1876), site of In- Filson & Son's, photographers, Steuben- ternational Exhibition, 339 ville(1897), 110 Falk, Maurice, Falk Foundation, 272, 273, Finney, Robert, Pgh. Fire Commissioner 274 (1870), 50 The Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation: Fire, Pgh. (1845), 39; fire a threat (1966), A Private Fortune —A Public Trust, 1929- 41 1965, announcement of publication by Fire Commissioners, nine (1870), 50 HSWP, 277 Fire companies, Pgh. (1837), ten named, Fallen Timbers, battle (1794), 4, 240 nine hundred members, companies in- Farmers and Merchants Bank, Pgh., 42 dexed, 46-47 Fawcett, James Waldo, "Quest for Pitts- Fire Department, Pgh. (1870), statistics, 50; burgh Fire Department History," 39-55; employees and salaries (1870), 50 rev. of Flexner's George Washington: Fire fighting, required from soldiers and The Forge of Experience (1732-1775), civilians (1758/.), 41-42 (N.Y., 1965), 265-267; rev. of Heads of Firemen's Association, Pgh. (1832), three Families at the First Census (1790) ... annual delegates from each of ten com- Pennsylvania, 366-369; "Historical Tour panies, 46 of 1966," report, 378-379 Fires: great danger (c.1816), 21; bucket Fearis, John, Vigilant Fire Company ladder- brigades, 42 man (1815), 41 First Pittsburgh Hose Company (1837), 46 Federal Bureau of Investigation (1950) First Presbyterian Church, Allegheny, Pa., condemns Pgh. system, 35 burns (1849), 53

9 Fisher, Myndert, spy (1781), 148 134 Fleckenstein, Mr., Beltzhoover tax collector, Fort Stanwix (c.1758), 134, 137 259-262 , 4; (1763), 135; 146 Flinn, William, Pgh. politician, 28 Foster, Stephen Collins, 227, 229 Florida boundary survey (1796-1800), 250 Foundation Library Center, 274 Flouring mill, Pearl, burned (1870), 53; Fourth of July (1795) observed by sur- of Mr. McLaren (1841), 101 veyors at Le Boeuf, 245 Footnote to Western Pennsylvania History, Fralich, Mr. and Mrs. D. H., Oakland farm Civil War letter, and commentary, 269- (1862), 216 271 Frank, James A., gift in memory of L. Earl Forks of the Ohio, 1 Dambach, 180 x Fort Brewington (1759), 134 Frank &Seder store, Pgh. burns (19H), 55 Fort Detroit, 141, 146 Franklin, Pa., old Venango, 231; laid out (1754), 3, 11; timber built, (1795), 243, 249 destroyed by fire (1758), 40, 53, 146 Franklin Road, 147n147n Fort Erie, at northeast end of Lake Erie, Frederick, Daniel H., Beltzhoover Borough 147 burgess (1893), 260 Fort Franklin (1787), 147/1,147n, 236 Freehof, Solomon B., "Some Lessons of Fort Harmar (Treaty of 1789), 238 History," 279-287 "Fort Hill," S. C, home of John C. Cal- Freiheitsfreund, Pgh. German newspaper houn, 111 (c.1882), 259 (1753), 3; (1763), 135; The French, Joseph, engineer (1859), 47 Carrying Place (1781), 142; described, , 127 145/., 147, 151n,151/1, 235, 236, 244 French Creek, Pa., 1, 2, 3, Un,\\n, 141, 144 Fort Lincoln (1863), band, hideous music, Frew, Aaron, land buyer, 99, 105 Frick Memorial, Pgh., Pa., 227 Fort Machault (Venango), 3 Friend, Porter R., land buyer, 99, 104 Fort Niagara, early French activity, 128, Friends (Quakers), surveyors (1795), 242 141, 142 Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Comte de Fort Oswego (1725/.), 130 (1620-1698), biog. sketch, 128, 128n (1759), 3, 8, 11, 101; (1768), Fulton, Mrs. Robert E., on architectural 138; (1781), 142, 143, 147 survey committee, 375 (1760), 141, 143 Fur trade, 127, 132 Fort Schuyler, on the Mohawk River (1759),

G "George Burges and the Erie Triangle," by Gage, Gen. Thomas (1764) letter, 135; John Cumming, 231-250 biog. sketch, 135ai George E. Lorch & Co., Pgh. South Side Gage, Papers, William L. Clements Library, department store burns (1901), 55 Ann Arbor, 143 George Rapp's Harmony Society (1785- Gaitor, Charles, South Side barber, 258 1847), by Karl J. R. Arndt (Phila., 1965), Gallatin, Albert, boundary commissioner rev., 361-363 (1794), 235 Germania Bank, Pgh., burned (1899), 54 Galloway, Scotland, later modern counties Germantown Junction (later North Phila- of Wigtown and Kirkcudbright, 322; delphia), station "cradle of the Covenant," 325 (1875), 331 Gamewell System (police box call) Pgh. Gibson, John, Pa. commissioner to Indians (1886), 30 (1794), 238 Gardner, James G., pastor of Bellefield Gibson, W. H., Ohio delegate (1856), 291 Church (1963- ), 224 Giddings, Joshua, Ohio representative (1856), Garrison, WilliamLloyd, small party leader 291, 292-293, 300 (1856), 293, 305 Giffen, Emma, m. E. P. Swift, 255 Gas, street lights (1868/.), 27; alleged dis- Gifts: In Commemoration, by nine donors, covery (1830) in Saw MillRun territory, in memory of five persons, items indexed, 98 180-181 Gasoline explosion, Allegheny, Pa., four Gilbert Elevated, street car company, 195, houses destroyed (1900), 54 336, 339 The Gazette, Pgh. (1850), 24; (1838), 47 Giles, Lizzie, m. Gen. Quarles, 121, 206, Gazzam, William, policing petition (1803), 207 20 Gipson, Lawrence Henry, The British Em- Geary, Gov. John White (1870), signs Pgh. pire Before the American Revolution. Vol. fire department enactment, 49 XI: The Triumphant Empire: The Rum- Genesee Valley Canal, 338 bling of the Coming Storm, 1766-1770 Geography, its military importance, 146 (N.Y., 1965), rev., 359-360

10 Girty's Run Valley, later Millvale,3 Gowans, Alan, Images of American Living. Gist, Christopher (1753), 3, 149/z, 150n,150/j, Four Centuries of Architecture and Furni- 151/1 ture as Cultural Expression (Lippincott, Gladwin, Maj. Henry (1760), 4; (April, 1964), rev., 157-159 1763) letter, 134 Gowen, Franklin B., president (1875) of Glass, C. Ihmsen's glass house burns (1854), Philadelphia &Reading Railroad, 334 53; Phillips, Best & Co. flint glass works Grabowski, John, Mt.Oliver Pharmacy, 253 burns (1856), 53 Graham, John, landowner, 98 Glass works, Temperanceville, 101 Graham, Samuel, landowner, 98 Glick, David, a gift inmemory of, 180 Grand Review, Washington, D. C. (1865), Goddess of Liberty, packet (1842), 103 48 Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, printed Granger, Bruce Ingham, Benjamin Frank- architectural designs, 217 lin:An American Man of Letters (Ithaca, Goff, A. T., Beltzhoover Borough burgess N. Y., 1964), rev., 80-83 (1886, 1887), 260 Grant's Hill,Pgh. jail called "Mount Airy," Good Intent, Pgh. volunteer fire company 23; Court House fire (1882), 50 on Wylie Ave. (c.1869), 49 "Great Fire" (1845), 53 Good Intent Engine Lot (1850), 25 Greeley, Horace, ed. New York Daily Trib- Good Will, Pgh. volunteer fire company une (1856), 290, 291; Associationist (c.1869), 49 (1844), 303 Goodard, Hill & Co., wholesale jewelry, Greenwich Street Elevated, early experi- Pgh. fire (1900), 54 ment, 194 Gordon, Capt. Harry, report (1760), 153n Grimes, Latimer, Steubenville banker, 110 Gordon, Gov. Patrick, of Pa., asks Indian Griswold, Ralph E., on architectural survey payment of debts to traders (1830), 58; committee, 375 asked by Shawnees to destroy kegs of Grocers Supply Company, Pgh. warehouse rum, 61, 62 burns (1891), 54 Gormly, Samuel, prothonotary (1824), 102 Guastrax, leader of western Senecas, a Gothic Church, Bellefield Church (c.1869), signer (1768) of treaty, 139 page from Godey's Lady's Book, opp. 219 Gurnee, Walter S., founder of precursor of Goudy, Edward, Vigilant Fire Company Chicago &Northwestern Railroad, 193 ladderman (1815), 41 Gustafson, Mrs., Swedish Lutheran at Al- Gow, Steele, Director of Falk Foundation, cuin Community (1940), 315 his plans and procedure, 274-275 Guthrie, Mayor John B. (1851), 25

H Harker, Ezekiel, large farm (1822), 98 H. Beam & Co., New Orleans (1842), 103 Harmar, Gen. Josiah, 4; Papers, W.L.C.L., Haldimand, Sir Frederick, military governor 143; defeat, 238 of Canada (1779), 142, 143, USn Harmonists or Economites, early history, Half King (Tanacharison), Iroquois Indian investments in Warren County area, 309- manager of Delawares (1747), 59 313,317 Halifax, Lord, King's Secretary for Colonies Harmony, town, founded by Rappists (1764), 136 (1804), 310, 315 Hall, Van Beck, rev. of Smith's The Battle Harmony Society, organization, ruler, celi- of Trenton (1965) and The Battle of bacy, 310; widespread investments, tim- Monmouth (1964), 369-370 berland in Warren County, 310, 312 Hamilton, John, builder of Allegheny fire Harold, Dr. H. Gordon, minister of Belle- engine house (1834), 46 field Church (1948-1956), 223-224 Hampe, Fred, horse car line, (c.1871), 257 Harper, Frank C, Pittsburgh Today (1931), Hancock, Walter, sculptor, 228 42, 43, 43«, 44, 47, 49 Hancock Agricultural Society, W. Va., 109 Harris, Isaac, member of Pittsburgh Fire Hancock County, Va. (c.1849), 105 Department (1832), 41 Hancock County, W. Va. (c.1863), 109 Harris, Pittsburgh Business Directory (1837), Hanna, William S., Benjamin Franklin and 46 Pennsylvania Politics (Stanford, Calif., Harrisburg, Pa. (1863), indifferent place, 1964), rev., 80-82 114 Hannastown, county seat (c.1773), 29 Harrison, Fairfax, "a worthy Virginia his- Hannon, John, Vigilant Fire Company prop- torian," 1, ll/i erty man (1815), 41 Harvey, Charles T., rapid transit (N.Y., Hardy, Gov. Charles, of N.Y. (1756) rec- 1875), 188 ommends Major General William John- , Henry, Pittsburgh Fire Commissioner son as superintendent over northern In- (1870), 50 dians, 131 Hays, William, manufacturer, councilman

11 (1830), 45, 45#i not indexed; Genealogy, 11 donors, 11 Heads of Families at the First Census of items, not indexed; Archives and Museum, the United States Taken in the Year sixteen donors and many items, none here 1790: Pennsylvania (reprint, Baltimore, indexed, 386-387; Glass, two donors, 1966), rev., 366-369 seven items, not indexed, 387 Heart, Capt. Jonathan, builds Fort Franklin History, its : Marxian, "a uni- (1787), 4, 18/z versal machine," "an unchangeable se- Hebrew scriptures, remarkably preserved, quence of inescapable ," 279-280; survived exile, did not need government , "philosophy taught by ex- maintenance, 285-286 ample," 280; "a sequence of biographies," Hegel, Georg, great German philosopher, "a sequence of human effort, a record of 279 human failure and success," 280; all his- Heinz, Mrs. Clifford S., gift in memory of tory is selective, 282 Harmar D. Denny, 180 History: "Some Lessons of History" by Heinz Chapel, Univ. of Pgh., 227 Solomon B. Freehof, 279-287 Heisterkamp, Mrs., South Side midwife, 259 History of the Expedition Under the Com- Heldt, August, Beltzhoover Borough baker, mand of Lewis and Clark ed. by Elliot 259 Coues (N.Y., 1965), rev., 263-265 Hemphill, James, engineer (1859), 47 Hodges, Fletcher, tribute to Foster, 228 Hennepen, Louis (1640-1701?), traveler, Hodgins, Samuel, ferry, 99, 100 author, 128 Hoffstot, Mrs. Henry P., on architectural Henrici, Jacob, co-administrator of Econo- survey committee, 375 my, Pa., 311 Holland, Dr. William J., pastor of Belle- Henry Street Chapel (1866), Pgh., 217 field Church (1874-1891), biog. sketch, Herr Island Stock Yards, two fires (1939), 219, 2\9n 55 Holland Land Company, landholding, 189 Herron, Robert, Beltzhoover Borough bur- Hollidaysburg (1863), 123, 197, 209 gess (1885), 260 Holliday's Cove, later Weirton, W. Va., 104, Herr's Island, in Allegheny River, 3 109 Hewitt, S. C, spiritualist writer (1858), 307 Holliday's Cove and New Cumberland Hill,Luther, partner of Roy Stone, 191 Turnpike Company, 109 Hill,William, merchant, fire company mem- Holmes, John, axe factory (1841), 101 ber, 42 "The Home," Clemson family home at Blad- Hinckley, Caroline, amanuensis, companion ensburg, Md. (1861), 111, 115, 200 and later wife of John Murray Spear Homestead Strike (1892), damaged repu- (1858), 308 tation of Pgh. area, 51 HistoricalAccount of the Expedition Against Hoops, Major Adam (1760-1846), surveyor, the Ohio Indians, Commanded by Colonel 341 , in the Year 1764 by Hope Company, South Side Fire Company William Smith, based on field work of (1840), 49 Thomas Hutchins, 5 Horner, James, fire engine donor (1792), 42 Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 143, Horses: packhorses used by British on Ve- 147«, 153/z nango Path, 3; taken by traders in pay- Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, ment for Indian debt, 63; secured from exhibition (1945) of relics of Pgh. fire (1864), 205 of 1845, and 40-page pamphlet, 39; in- Houses, photo of wall of Hutterite site, terested in local public archives, 52, 55; Warren County, Pa., opp. 311; "Russian paintings, 100; 227 houses," 313 Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania: Hovey, Walter Read, author, 100 Annual Reports: Director's Report for Hudson River (1873), drop in sawlog traf- 1965, including four Society lectures, fic, 193 twenty-three other than Society lectures Hughes, Thomas, Beltzhoover Borough bur- by the Director, an annual tour and an gess (1891-1892), 260 Open House, 172-174, not fully indexed; Huguenots, 400,000 leave France (after Report of the Editor-Librarian, 1965, gen- 1785), 325 eral summary, 174-175, not indexed; Re- Hunt, Leigh, description of fire, 40 port of the Treasurer for 1965, slightly Huntsicker family, parents and three sons condensed, 176-178, not fullyindexed captured by Indians (1795), 247 Historical Society Documents and Notes, in- Hutchins, Capt. Thomas (c.1760), report, 5 cluding a Footnote to Western Pennsyl- Hutchins Papers, Historical Society of Penn- vania History containing a letter of Mat- sylvania, 6, 143, 147n, 153n thew Brown Riddle (dated 1850), 171; Hutterites, associated with Economists, 312 five items, four indexed,— 269-278; Addi- Hydraulic Company, Pgh., South Side fire tions to Collections Library: 380-385, company (c.1869), 49 forty-seven donors, more than 100 items,

12 I Juggernaut," 5 Mick, Joseph E., William Penn the Politi- Industrial Institute Exposition Building, cian: His Relations with the English Gov- frame structure, Allegheny, Pa., burned ernment (Ithaca, N. Y., 1965), rev., 79- (1883), 54 80 Ingram, J. S., The Centennial Exposition Images of American Living. Four Centuries (Phila., 1876), 341/1, 342 of Architecture and Furniture as Cultural Institute of Public Administration, New Expression, by Alan Gowans (Lippincott, York City, investigates Pgh. police system 1964), rev., 157-159 (c.1937), 34 rincendiary" fire, Allegheny, Pa. (1854), 53 International Association of Chiefs of Po- Independence Fire Company, in 10th Ward, lice, 1950 survey of Pgh. system, 35 Pgh., 49 International Exhibition at Phila. (1876), Indian, Delaware, murdered (1794), 236, 338-339 239 Iron furnaces, near Altoona, ore bank, 113, Indian behavior, 247-248 117, 125-126; many closed in Pa. (1873/.), Indian clothes, taken for debt, 62-63 194 Indian Council (Sept. 7, 1763), 135 Iron, rolling mill of Rease, Graff & Dull, "Indian Credit as a Source of Friction in explosion (1867), 53 the Colonial Fur Trade," by James C. Irondequoit Bay, British post (1740), 130 King, 57-65 Iroquois Apartments, Pgh., designed (1905) Indian menace, British incited (c.1775- by F. J. Osterling, 222 1795), 1; guides (1753), 3,4 Iroquois Confederacy, 127 Indian Paths of Pennsylvania, by Paul A. Iroquois Indians, resist survey of Erie Tri- W. Wallace (Harrisburg, 1965), rev., 267- angle, 4 268 Irvin, James, VigilantFire Company (1861), Indian Trade (1751), based on credit in 48 Carolina, in Pennsylvania, 57; along the Irvine, Callender, surveyor (1795), 240, 241 Ohio, decays (1752-1753), later restricted Irvine, Gen. William, trip (1785), 147«, by British and by the U. S., 64-65; later 148at; explores northwest Pa., 233, 234, controlled by great firms, 65 235, 241 Indians, of the Upper Allegheny (1779), Irwin, John, vice president, Neptune Fire 2; ask restrictions on rum sale, 61-62; the Company (1837), 43 Hurons, Andaste, Neutral and Erie na- Irwin&Co., Pgh. rope works, burns (1862), tions, reduced by the Iroquois, 128; Dela- 53 wares and Shawnees antagonized, 133, Isaac Hobbs and Son, architects, Phila. 134; supplies (1795) of potatoes, beans, (c.1869), 217 squashes, pumpkins and fowl, 249 Island Queen, pleasure boat, exploded and Industrial development, "twentieth century burned at Pgh. (1947), 55

J Jennings' Blazing Star Prairie, named for O. Jackson, Geo. W., Eagle Fire Company C. Jennings, 16m (1830), 44 Johnson, Gov. (1850), pardons Mayor James II, King of England (1685-1689), Joseph Barker, 24 322 Johnson (Johnston), John, first engineer of James VI, King of Scots, becomes (1603), Eagle Fire Engine &Hose Co., 41 James Iof England, 319 Johnson, Sir John (1781), 142 James, Alfred P., revs, of Hanna's Ben- Johnson, William, British subject, at Le jamin Franklin and Pennsylvania Politics Boeuf (1794), 236, 238 and of Granger's Benjamin Franklin: An Johnson, William, successful fur trader, American Man of Letters, 80-83; rev. of millionaire, Mohawk by adoption, mem- Knollenberg's George Washington, The ber of Onondaga Council, 60; condemns Virginia Period 1732-1775, 161-162; rev. enslavement of Indians, 63 of Wallace's Indian Paths of Pennsyl- Johnson, Sir William, biog. sketch, 127, vania, 267-268 127ai, 130/., 134, 135, 136, 142 James Wood & Co., land on South Side, Johnson glass house, South Side, Pgh. 101-102 (1854), with forty other buildings, burns "James Wood and Co. line," 99 (1854), 53 Jay Cooke & Company, failure (1873), 193 Johnson's Island, Sandusky, Ohio, war pris- Jefferson, Thomas, names surveyors (1791) on (1863), 111 to lay out new national capital, 234; Joncaire, Daniel, de Chabert (1753), 2 (1794), 237 Joncaire, Louis Thomas de, seigneur of Jefferson College (1850), 170 Chabert, at Niagara, 127, 129 Jenkins (T. C), building, burns (1897), 54 Jones, William M., Baltimore (1857), hand

13 engine (1857), 43 294 Joseph Home store, burns (1897); also Juniata River (1864), "lovely," 211 burned (1900), 54 Juniata Valley, beautiful route (1863), 114 Julian, George W., anti-nativist (1856), 293, Juvenile delinquency, Pgh. (c.1802), 20

K 57-65 Kanawha River, southern limit of Iroquois King, Jennie, Bladensburg (1864), 205 suzerainty, 137 King, John, son of Rufus, temporary chair- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) ended slavery man of Pgh. convention (1856), 290 compromise of 1820, 289, 297 King, Rufus, early N. Y.politician, 290 Kant, Immanuel, great German philosopher, Kings Court Theater, earlier Pgh. police 279 station, 29 Karle, George, convert of A. B. Smolnikar, Kittanning (Frankstown) Path, 2 fails to run machine, drowned (1844), Kline, Mayor Charles H., Pgh. (c.1934), 33 303-304 Knapp plant, manufacturing (1859), 47 Kaye, Joseph, rebuilder (1848), of engine Knights of Columbus, buy (1912) the Hol- of Niagara Fire Company, 47 land Manse, 220 Keenan, Larry, musician, 228 Knollenberg, Bernard, George Washington, Kennedy, David F., sketch maker (1876), The Virginia Period, 1732-1775 (Durham, 339, sketch opp. 343 N. C, 1964), rev., 161-162 Kent, Donald H., Director of Bureau of Re- Know-Nothing, political convention, Phila. search, Publications and Records, Penn- (1856), 290; American Party, 291, 292 sylvania Historical and Museum Commis- Knox, Gen. Henry, Secretary of War (1795), sion, 143, 149/1, 379 235 Kerr, Allen Humphries, "The Mayors and Knox, Jeremiah, traveling preacher, m. Mrs. Recorders of Pittsburgh 1816-1951," 23 /i, Sarah Bausman, farm, orchard, 255 28*, 46 Knox,W. W., Jr., borough promoter (1880), Kerr, Rev. Hugh Thomson, pastor of Oak- 255 land Presbyterian Church and of Shady- KnoxvilleElks, clubhouse in old Swift man- side Presbyterian Church (1913-1945), sion, 255 221 Incline (1890-1960), its bend, Kiantone, N. Y., spiritualist center, 304, abandoned, 252 307, 308 Knoxville Land Improvement Company, Kiasota, Indian chief, site of grave ques- (1880), Frederick Bausman, W. W. Knox, tioned, I49n Jr., and A. K. Mathews, 255 Kimerer, Mr. John, gift in memory of, 337 Kohn, Joseph S., California promoter (1876), King, H. D., third engineer of Firemen's of "Prismoidal System," early monorail, Association, Pgh. (1837), 46 192 King, James C, "Indian Credit as a Source Kuskuskies, Pa., on Venango Path, 2, 9 of Friction in the Colonial Fur Trade,"

L Land hunger, of American white frontiers- L. H. Harris drug store, burned (1890), 54 men, 138; mania, on the frontier, 302 Laboratory, Quality Control (1965), 107 Lander, Dr., Hollidaysburg, Pa. (1864), 197 Lacey, Charles, occupant of old Daniel Ross Lander, Ernest M., Jr., ed. "A Confederate House, 371 Girl Visits Pennsylvania, July-September, Lacomic Creek (Sandy Creek), 10 1863," 111-126; 197-211 Lafayette, Marquis de, in Pgh. (1825), 42; Lane, Harriet, niece of President James Bu- reported stop at Buck's Tavern, 253 chanan, 111, 209 La France, Truckson, co-founder of engine Langlade, Charles, leads Indians against making firm, 334 Pickawillany (1752), 64 La France Manufacturing Company, Elmira, La Salle, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de, Fort N. Y.(1872), 188,333 Niagara (1678), 128 Lake Chautauqua (1787), 232 Latrobe, Benjamin H., Jr. (1806-1878), Lake Erie (1787), 232 Bethlehem, Pa. (1863), 126, 200, 202 Lake Erie region, successively Indian, French Latrobe, Mary Elizabeth (1836-1916), Beth- and British, 1, 143 lehem, Pa. (1863), 126, 199, 200, 202 Lake Frontenac (Erie), fort built, 129 Lauber, Philip J., restaurateur, Phila. (1876), Lake Ontario (c.1718), 129, 134 340 Lakes (The Great), British plan (1781), Laurie & Green, architects and engineers, a 142 Harrisburg firm, 378

14 Lawrence and Anthony Wolfe, architectural Lilly, J. K., father of Foster Memorial, 227 firm (1861), 224 Limestone Township, Warren County, Pa., Lebanon, Pa. (1795), 231 Utopian experiment (1843 ),302 LeBoeuf (1787), 232 Lincoln, Abraham (1856), not at Pittsburgh Lecky, William, axe man, Vigilant Fire Convention, at Decatur, 289 Company (1811), 41 Linen industry, inBelfast (1634/.), 325 Lecky, William E. H., famous historian, Liquor, rum or whiskey, used by traders to authority on Ireland, 323, 324, 326, 328 defraud Indians, 61-62; used to impose Ledlie, William, pioneer, father of Agnes upon Indians (c.1764), 137 (Ledlie) Crawford, 109 List: eleven school teachers and three prin- Lee, Capt. Charles (1759), trip from Lake cipals, Allentown-Beltzhoover school, 261, Erie to Fort Pitt, 151/. not indexed Lee, D. Williamson, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, Lists, not indexed, German families of 120, 122, 123, 197, 203, 204 Allentown and Beltzhoover, 257; business Lee, Gideon, brother of D. W. Lee, m. enterprises, 258 Floride Clemson, 114« Little, William, successful candidate for Lee, Gen. Robert E. (1863), threatens Pgh., Mayor of Pgh. (1838), 47 resulting fortification, 262 Little Saw MillRun Coal Railroad, 98 Lee and Holmes Ferry, 99, 100 Lloyd, Henry, churchman, 216; biog. sketch, Leggett, Thomas, Vigilant Fire Company 216/i; donor of church site (1866), 217 ladderman (1815), 41 Lloyd, James L., member of Rescue Com- L'Enfant, Maj. Pierre Charles, surveyor of pany (c.1869), 49 national capital (1791), 234 Lock-up Houses, Pgh. (1850), 25 Leonard, Mrs. Autumn L., Historian of Long, Charles, member of Rescue Com- Bureau of Research, Publications and Rec- pany (c.1869), 49 ords, Pennsylvania Historical and Mu- Longfellow, Henry W., prison social reform seum Commission, 143, 15ln promoter, 305 Leupp, Laura, 198, 198rc, 208 Lorant, Stefan, Pittsburgh, the Story of an Lewis, A. Kirk,land buyer, 99 American City (Garden City, N. Y., Lewis, Mrs. Carrie, spiritual leader (1858), 1964), 3, In 307 Lords of Trade, British, authorize a fort in Lewis, Charles, director of Buhl Founda- Seneca area (1721), 130 tion, 274 Louvre, Paris, has Moabite Stone, 281 Lewis, David, on architectural survey com- Lovejoy, Rev. Owen, brother of martyr, mittee, 375 opening prayer at Pgh. convention (1856), Lewis, Enoch, surveyor (1795), 241, 242, 290, 295 244 Lowery, James, Beltzhoover Borough bur- Lewis, H. H., New Orleans (1842), 103 gess (1880, 1881), 260 Lewis, Virginia, rev. of Stoudt's Early Lowery, Joseph C, Neptune Company Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts (N.Y., steam fire engine (1856), 43 1964), 165-169 Lowlands, southwestern counties of Scot- Lewiston, Canadian town, French store- land, migration to Ireland, 319/. house (1678), 128 Lowrie, Mayor Matthew B., Pgh. (1830- Liberty Ave., Pgh., Robert Crawford lot, 98 1831), 46 Library of Congress, manuscript material, Lumber and lumbering, New York State, 6;manuscripts, maps, 143; 304 186, 187, 189, 193, 301 Library Place Apartments, Pgh. North Side, Lutton, Benjamin, Pgh. councilman, arrested burned (1912), 55 (1850), 24 Liggett, John, axe man, Vigilant Fire Com- Lyman, Dr. Theodore B., rector of Trinity pany (1815), 41 Episcopal Church (1850-1862), 214

M 220-221, 222 McAleese, John, Pgh. Police Inspector, 30 McClintock, BowdoinU., gift in memory of McCabe, James Dabney, The Illustrated David Glick, 180 History of the Centennial Exhibition, 340, McClintock, C. A., 270 342 McClurg, Alexander, member of Pittsburgh McCeney, Henry, Maryland farmer (1863), Fire Department (1832), 41 115 McComas, George, stables used as meeting McClelland, Carrie, 112, U2n,Win, 116, 120, place of Rescue Company (c.1869), 49 124 McConnell, Mary, 106 McClelland, Henry, conveyance driver McConnell, Susan, mother of Mary, 106 (1863), 124 McCrory's store, Pgh. burns (1917), 55 McClelland, Dr. Henry T., pastor of Belle- McCune, Joseph Condit, "The Ancestors of field Presbyterian Church (1891-1904), the Scotch-Irish," 319-329

15 McCune, Robert, policing petition (1803), "Magazine Hill," Warrington Avenue, site 20 of powder magazine (1863), 262 McCurdy, John, Presbyterian elder (1866), Magee, Christopher, Pgh. politician, 28 217 Magee, Robert, assistant engineer, Eagle McDonald, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph, in first Fire Engine Co. (c.1889), 41 group at AlcuinCommunity (1940), 315 Magee, Mayor William, Pgh. (1925), 33 McElroy, Mr., Pgh. Fire Commissioner Magee Hospital, Pgh. Oakland area, 223 (1870), 50 Maginn cracker factory, Pgh., burns (1890), McElroy, John H., engineer (1859), 47 54 McElroy, Samuel, Jr., industrial foreman, Main Western Pennsylvania Exposition Pgh. (1870), 50 building, adjoining industrial buildings McFaden, John, second engineer, Firemen s and twenty dwellings, destroyed by fire, Association (1837), 46 (1901), 54 McGinnis, Edward, landowner, 98 Major, John, clerk of the Pgh. Council McGowan, Robert, Steubenville property, (1850), 24 109 Manhattan Railway Company (c.1883), 336 MacGowan, Dr. Robert, pastor of Belle- Mann, Elijah, chairman of Committee on field Presbyterian Church (1917-1933), Address, Pgh. convention (1856), 296 223 Mann, Henry, Our Police and Firemen The McGraw Site, a Study in Hopewellian (Pgh., 1889), 19/i, 23, 25, 30 Dynamics, by Olaf H. Prufer (Cleveland, Mann, Horace, educator, interest in prison 1965), rev., 83-85 reforms, 305 McGrew, John, Vigilant Fire Company lad- Manor, of Pittsburgh, surveyed in 1769, 99 derman (1815), 41 Manse, BellefieldChurch, its later uses, 220 Mcllvain, Lizzie, schoolmate of Floride "The Manuscript and Miscellaneous Collec- Clemson, 116, 120, 124, 125 tions of the Historical Society of Western Mclntosh-Hemphill & Co., Pgh. (c.1870), Pennsylvania. A Preliminary Guide" by 50 John W. Harpster, 67-78; 345-358, in- McKean, Robert, Pgh. councilman (1850), volving 109 collections and more than 24 300 items. Not indexed here McKee, Thomas, Vigilant Fire Company Map, by Thomas Hutchins, route from Fort axe man (1815), 41 Pitt to Presqu' Isle (1760), opp. 145 McKelvey, Frank M., Beltzhoover Borough Map of route from Venango to Presqu' burgess (1897), 260 Isle, opp. 144 McKelvey, Samuel, president of Niagara Maple, Thomas, names South Side streets, Fire Company, Pgh. (1838), 47 252 McKelvy, W. M., Pgh. Fire Commissioner Maps, relevant to the Venango Path, 152; (1870), 50 bibliography of, 153-154, not indexed McKinney, Rev. David, Presbyterian stated Marker, Mary Elizabeth, m. Roy Stone, supply (1866), 217 biog. sketch, 189-190 McKnight's rolling mill,Pgh., burns (1871), Marker House, Blairsville, Pa. (1853/.), 190 53 Market Street, Pgh., "Calamity" fire (1812), McLain, Benjamin, contractor, 252 53 McLain &Maple, contracting firm (c.1866), Marlatt, James, landowner, 98 252, 255 Martin, Effie, daughter and assistant of post- McLaren, Mr., steam flouring mill (1841), master Martin of Allentown Borough, 259 101 Martin, John L., first burgess of Beltzhoover McMillen,Dr. Kinley, student pastor (1926), Borough (1875), 260 223 Martin, Park H., former Director of the McPherson, James M., The Struggle for on Community Equality, Abolitionists and the Negro in Development and (1966) State Director the Civil War and Reconstruction (Prince- of Highways, 379 ton, N. J., 1964), rev., 155-157 Marx, Karl, accepted Hegel's mechanical McPherson, John, Fire Company ladderman theory of history, 279 (1815), 41 Mason and Dixon's line, extended (1784), McQueen, John, president of Neptune Fire 231 Company (1837), 43 Masters, H. G., principal of the Allen McShain, John, general contractor, of School, 261 Phila., 378 Mathews, A.K., borough promoter (1880), Machinery, perpetual motion, destroyed by 255 mob, 306 Maxwell, Sir Herbert, historian (1898), Mackey, R. W., Pgh. Fire Commissioner 320n, 326 (1870), 50 Mechanic Company, Pgh. South Side fire Maddox, John, fur trader, refused to give company (1866), 49 credit to Indians (1729), attacked, goods Mechanics Street Bridge, burns (1851), 53 seized, 58 Melady, Mrs., great-granddaughter of Ste-

16 phen Foster, 228 banker of Steubenville, 110 Members, New: ninety named, but not in- Mooney, Maud, m. Harry Wintringer, 110 dexed, 90-91; in memoriam, thirty-one Mooney, Robert, son of William Ledlie, named, but not indexed, 92 109, 110 Mercer, Col. Hugh, Pa. Regt. (1760), 4, Mooney, WilliamH., m. Amanda Crawford, 151/1 108, 109 Merkle, Michael, takes over management of Moorhead, Carrie T., m. William J. Hol- timber lands and lumber production of land (1879), 219, 220 Harmony Society, 311-312 Moorhead, John, Oakland residence, 214, Merrick, William M. (1818-1889), judge, 219 congressman, 195, 198n Moorhead, M. K., Pgh. Fire Commissioner Methodist Church, in Tidioute, aided by (1870), 50 Harmony Society, 313 Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa., 219 Mexico, Mexican War, 297 Morgan, Gen. John Hunt, raid (1863), 116 Miamis, western Indians (1763), 134 Morgan's Town (c.1782), Indian raid, 248 Midine, Charles, Beltzhoover Borough bur- Morin, John M., Safety Director, Pgh. gess (1890), 260 Police (c.1912), 33 Mifflin, Gov. Thomas (1794), 148/z, 151/i; Morris, Col. D. B., parlor used as Union (1795), 235 Sunday School (1863), 215, 216 Miller, Ernest C, "Utopian Communities Morris, "Govvy," friend of D. W. Lee, 119, in Warren County, Pennsylvania," 301- 122, 123 317 Morris, Robert (1792), 234 Miller, Jonathan, concessionaire at Phila. Morrison, Ensign James, 9th Va. Regt. Exhibition (1876), 341 (1781) scouts routes, 148n148/1 Miller, P. Schuyler, rev. of Prufer's The Morton, Joseph C, rev. of Illick's William McGraw Site, a Study in Hopewellian Penn the Politician: His Relations with Dynamics (Cleveland, 1965), 83-85 the English Government, 79-80; rev. of Miller, Rev. Samuel, Saltsburg, Pa., m. Gipson's The British Empire Before the Selina Crawford, 110 American Revolution. Vol. XI: The Tri- Miller,William, landowner, 98 umphant Empire: The Rumbling of the Millerand McBride, Pgh. law firm, 110 Coming Storm, 1766-1770, 359-360 Mingo Hutts, on Venango Path (1760), Morton, Dr. W. Scott, pastor of Bellefield 145; 150/z150n Church (1957-1963), 224 Miss Mary Cassatt, Impressionist from Mosby, John Singleton, Confederate ranger Pennsylvania, by Frederick A. Sweet (1864), 207, 207n (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1966), rev., Mount Alpheus, spiritualist unionist settle- 363-366 ment, Patriot, Indiana (1860), 309 Missions, domestic, of Bellefield Presbyte- Mt. Oliver Incline, built (1871), 257 rian Church, 221 Mount Washington, Pgh., gas explosion Missouri Compromise (1820), vital matter (1900), 54 in slavery dispute, 296-297 Mt. Washington Incline, 258 Moabite Stone, the Mesha stone (1806), Muddy Creek, plan of artificial lake, part 281 of new Moraine State Park, 5 Moffat (Moffet?), neighbor and executor of Muir, Dr. C. Marshall, pastor of Bellefield estate of Daniel Ross (1819), 373 Presbyterian Church (1933-1943), 223 Monckton, Gen. Robert (1759), 3, 148/1, Munn, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph, gift in memory 152/1, 154 of Oliver Evans, 181 Monongahela House (1864), 211 Murray, John, m. Harriet Beltzhoover, 254, Monongahela Wharf, ten steamboats burn 255 (1859), 53 Murray, John, founder of Universalist sect, Monorails, 185-195 passim 305 Monotheism, related to universalism as a Murray, Capt. Magnus (1829), 42 philosophic concept, 282 Music, in public schools, 261 Montefiore Hospital, Pgh., Oakland area, Myers, Fred, rev., of Sweet's Miss Mary 223 Cassatt, Impressionist from Pennsylvania, Mooney, Helen, m. Alfred S. Freeman. 110 363-366 Mooney, Hervey, Washington, Pa. business Myers, T., treasurer of Neptune Fire Com- man, 110 pany (1837), 43 Mooney, Mabel, m. Latimore Grimes,

N Survey, 250 N. W. Ordinance of 1787, slavery clause, National Convention of Associationists 296 (N.Y., 1844), 303 Natchez (1796), 's Florida Neeld, Eli,land buyer, 99, 104

17 Neeper, B., secretary of Pgh. Board of Fire Niagara, strategic position in French hands, Commissioners (1870), 50 127, 142, 143, 146, 147, 208, 247 Neptune Fire Company, Pgh. (c.1808), 43, Niagara Engine Lot, Pgh. (1851), 25 46 Niagara Fire Company, Pgh. (1838), dis- Nesbitt, W. W., South Side apothecary, 258 banded (1853), reorganized (1854), 47 Neville, Burgess Presley, Pgh. (1803), 20 Nicola, Franklin F. (1859-1938), Schenley New Englanders, used Venango Trail, 2 Farms Land Company, 222 (New) Harmony, Indiana (1815-1825), Night Watch, captain and twelve watchmen, 310-311 duties, 20-21 New York Biscuit Company, Pgh., burned Niles Register (1823), reports Pgh. fire of (1899), 54 1819,53 New York Daily Tribune (1856), 290, 307, Nimrod, steam tug, explodes (1865), 53 342 Nitre and MiningBureau, C.S.A., 111 New YorkElevated, railway (1875), 336 Noblestown and Temperanceville Turnpike, New York lumber counties, Seneca, Steuben 98 and Allegany, 186 North, Catherine Clemson, wife of George New York-Pennsylvania survey (1787), 232 W. North, 110, 119, 206 New York Public Library, important manu- North, Clem, 113, 113n scripts, 6; Lenox Collection, George North, Walter, 113, 113«113n Croghan's journal, 143 North, Willy, 113, 113* New York Times (1856), 290, 296, 334-335 Northern Liberties, Pgh. District (c.1832), New York World (1875), 335 53 New York World's Fair, monorail feature, Northern Liberties, fire company (1837), 46 186 Northern Pacific Railroad (1875), 331 New Yorkers, used Venango Trail, 2 Northern Pennsylvania landholding Utopias, Newton, A. E., Boston Spiritualist (1858), seven named, 302 307 Nusser, John, Beer Garden, brewer, 259

oO pany of Pgh. takes part (c.1861), in Oakland, Romanesque police structure many battles, mascot a dog, Jack, 48 (c.1889), 29; cultural district, 213-225 OneidaLake (1759), 134 passim O'Neil, Sir Phelim, alleged plot to massacre Oakland Presbyterian Church (1899/.), 221 all Protestants of English descent in Obey, John, landowner, 98 Ulster (1641), 321 O'Hara, Gen. James, landowner, 98 Onondaga Council (Iroquois), authority , from junction of the Allegheny over Delawares and Shawnees (c.1747), and Monongahela, 97 59; (1756), 131 Oil, 3,000 barrels, burn at Point (1863), Ormsby, Jane, daughter of , m. 53; "Great petroleum fire," Pgh. (1870), Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, 254 53; wells and production in Tidioute area, Ormsby, John, commissary (1793), 17 312 Ormsby, John, extensive South Side land Old Briton, Miami Indian chief, called La holdings (1791/.), 253-254 Demoiselle by French (c.1750), 59 Ormsby, Oliver, son of John Ormsby, mag- Old Walton Hall, Pgh., burns (1938), 55 nate, 254 Oliver, Rev., Altoona, Pa. (1864), 203 Ormsby, Dr. Oliver, son of Oliver Ormsby, Oliver, John W., remarks on Foster, 227- 254 228 Ormsby Hose Company, Pgh. South Side Oliver, Joseph, Vigilant Fire Company (c.!873),49(c.1873),49 (1815), 41 Orr, Rev. James T., minister of Bellefield Oliver, William R., on architecture survey Church (1944-1947), 223 committee, 375 Orvis, John, proclaims dissolution (1863) Oliver McClintock Co., carpets and drap- of Sacred Order ofUnionists, 309 eries, Pgh. (1900), fire, 54 Osterling, F. J., architect of new Bellefield O'Mara, Roger, Pgh. assistant police super- Church (1889), 49, 220, 221 intendent (c.1887), 29, 30 Oswego, N. Y., large white pine market Omri, King of Israel (c.850 B. C), 281 (1873), loses trade, 193 Onderdonk, Henry, college president (1864) Oswego Falls (1759), 134 ousted, 114, 114/z, 115, 116, 118, 123, Owen, Robert, buys New Harmony, Indiana 124, 198, 199, 203, 204 (1825), 311 102nd Regt., Pa. Vols. Niagara Fire Com-Coro-

18 p Philadelphia & Reading Railroad (1875), P.C.C. & St. L.R.R., right-of-way (1887), 331,334 New Cumberland Branch, 107 Philanthropic gifts, Pgh., six early gifts, 273; Paisley, S. F., superintendent of Pgh. Fire Buhl Foundation a pattern, 273; nine alarm telegraph system (1870), 50 later, 274 Panhandle Greys, militia(1864), 106 Phillips, James, executor of estate of Daniel Panic of 1837, 104 Ross (1819), 373 Panic of 1873, 193 Phillips, Wendell, prison social reform, 305 "Parish" history, local church area concept, Phillips, Best & Co., flint glass works, Pgh. Second Ward, along with 50 houses, Parker, J. J., whiskey sale (1841), 103 burns (1856), 53 Parkman, Francis, Conspiracy of Pontiac, Phoenix column, used in bridges (1861/.), 134-135 194, 334 Parry, Henry, Vigilant Fire Company lad- Phoenix Engine and Hose Company, Phila. derman (1815), 41 (1833), makers af Allegheny engine Patterson, Robert, Vigilant Fire Company Phoenix, 46 waterman (1815), 41 Phoenix Iron Works, Phoenixville, Pa. Patterson, Rodney, m. Eliza Beltzhoover, (1875), consulted by General Stone, 194, 254 195, 332 Patterson, Capt. William, map maker, 149/2, Phoenixville, Pa., farthest inland point 150/z, 151/z, 154 reached by the British, 332 Patton, Benjamin, Pgh. judge (c.1850), 24 Pickawillany, MiamiIndian town, 59, 64 The Peace Union Settlement (Community), Pickering, Timothy, U. S. commissioner at Warren County, 302-304 Canandaigua Conference (1794), 239 Pease, J. P., Temperanceville school pro- Pine Creek, Pa. (1760), 8-9 moter (1844), 105 Pinkerton guards, Pgh. (1892), 51 Peckham, Howard H., Director, William L. Pitt Township, 19n\9n Clements Library, 143 Pittsburgh, incorporated (1794), 19; city Pendleton, S. C, home area of Calhouns, charter (1816), 20; (1863), industries, 111 dirt, smoke, 210-211; borough (1794), Penly, Calvin, buys (1953) old Alcuin city (1816), four wards (1816), 253 Community land, 316 Pittsburgh & Castle Shannon Railroad Penn, William, charter from Charles II, (1870/.), coal traffic, 257 cited, 253 Pittsburgh and Wheeling Packet, steamship Pennsylvania Archives Tower, Harrisburg, of Harmony Society (c.1825), 311 Pa., 378 Pittsburgh Blues (), 42 Early Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts, by Pittsburgh Board of Education, building on John Joseph Stoudt (N.Y., 1964), rev., old Morris estate, 215 165-169 Pittsburgh Council (1934), 33, 44, 49 Pennsylvania "Bucktails," 186 Pittsburgh Daily Dispatch (1856), 290 Pennsylvania Common School Report (for Pittsburgh Daily Post (1856), 290 1876-1877), 261 Pittsburgh Female College, Pgh. downtown, Pennsylvania Department ofInternal Affairs, burns (1891), 54 Bureau of Land Records, 143 Pittsburgh Fire Department (1832), Wil- Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Com- liam Eichbaum, first engineer, 41, 44, 49, mission, Bureau of Research, Publications 50 and Records, 143, 147/z, 149/1,149«, 152/z "Pittsburgh Fires: (1758-1965): A Check Pennsylvania Railroad, special train (1875), List," eighty-one fires, a hundred items, 53 Pennsylvania State Legislature, pension bills, Pittsburgh Junction Railroad (c.1887), 220 police and firemen (c.1887), 31 Pittsburgh Post (c.1889), 40 Pennsylvania Volunteers (102nd Regt., Pittsburgh Presbytery, 221 1861), Niagara Fire Company, Pgh., en- Pittsburgh Renaissance, 273 listed, 48 Pittsburgh Volunteers, firemen, 40 Perry, Commodore Oliver Hazard (1813), , emphasized nominalism as against 4 realism, 286, 287 Perry Highway (1966), 2 Plato's Republic, first utopianism, 301 Petrie, James, Vigilant Fire Company Plockhoy, Peter C: A Way Propounded to (1861), 48 Make the Poor in These and Other Na- Pettigrew, Samuel, President of the Sanitary tions Happy, Etc. (, 1659), the Board, Pgh. (1833), 21 background of Pennsylvania Utopian com- The or Journal of Social Science.Science, munities, 301 303, 303w303/1 Police, organization (1887), 28; Pgh. man- Philadelphia, early police force, 20; Cen- ual of rules and regulations (c.1890), 29; tennial Exhibition (1876), 185; place of problems of metropolitan Pgh. (1907/.), Republican Convention (1856), 296 31; Pgh. (c.1925), six defects, 32-33

19 Police Bureau (Pittsburgh), early history, (1850), 224 23, 37 Presbyterian Church, in Ireland, civil war Police Committee, of the Select and Com- (1642-1652), refused to take the Engage- mon Councils (1850), 24, 25 ment Oath, 321 Police Department, Pgh., established (1857), Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Monu- 25 ment Hill, Allegheny, Pa., burns (1854), Police Research Commission, Pgh. (1934), 53 investigation and Report, 33 Presbyterians, of Ulster (1708-1710), 130; Police system, Pgh. (1950/.), well organ- 319; congregations, 353 ized, comprehensive program, 35 Presbyteries, only three in Ulster (1654), "The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police: Some 321-322 Historical Highlights," by Christine Al- Presbytery of Ohio (1866) jurisdiction over tenburger, 19-37 Pgh. (1866), 216 Polytheism, once widespread, based on Presbytery of Pittsburgh (c.1950), 224, 225 primitive pantheism, 282 Presqu' Isle, captured by Indians (1763), Pontiac (1763), 4; Indian allies besiege 135, 141 Pittsburgh (1763), 101; heads revolt Presque Isle (1753), 3, 4, 142, 143, 147; (1763), 132; Ottawa Indian chief (1763), (1787), 232 135, 141 Preston, , farm sold to St. John's Porter, Andrew, surveyor, 23 1 Abbey, Collegeville, Minn. (1940), 314 Porter, Mary, m. John Crawford, 106 Price, Ensign, at Le Boeuf (1763), 146 Porter, R., secretary of Neptune Fire Com- Princeton Theological Seminary, 219 pany (1837), 43 Prison, social work, Boston area, 305 Porter, William, first engineer (1854) of Proclamation of 1763, 137 Niagara Fire Company, 47 "Progress in the Arts and Sciences," theme Portpatrick, Galloway (Scotland) (c.1689), of the International Exhibition, Phila. 322, 323 (1876), 339 Posner, Ernst, American State Archives Projector, machine, J. A.Etzler, 303-304 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964), rev., Prothonotaries and Clerks of Courts, Butler, 159-160 Venango, Crawford and Erie Counties, Powers, William, killed by Indians on Ven- 144 angoangoPathPath (1794), 243 Prufer, Olaf H., The McGraw Site, a Study Prattsburg, N. Y., village in transition, 186 in Hopewellian Dynamics (Cleveland, Prayer Meetings, Sunday Evening Union 1965), rev. 83-85 (1863), 215 Public Safety Building, Pgh. police center Presbyterian Board of Christian Education (c.1889),29

Quarles, Gen., m.Lizzie Giles, 121, 207 "Quest for Pittsburgh Fire Department Quarry Hill,Pgh. reservoir (1845), 40 History," by James Waldo Fawcett, 39-55

R 335, 336 Raftsmen's Guard, military company (1861), Rapp, Frederick, Rappist administrator, 310, 190 311 Railroad Gazette (c.1875), 333, 335 Rapp, George, b. (1757), founder of Railroad strike (July, 1877), inadequate German Separatists, migrates to America, police power, 27; uncontrollable fires, 50; 310 54 Rasher, Daniel, Pgh. South Side landholder, Railroads: Little Saw Mill Run Coal Rail- 254 road, Pittsburgh and Steubenville Rail- Rawlinson, John, The Behistun Rock road, 98; 99; railway, Saw Mill Run (c.1840), 284 (1853), 101; mountain scenery (1863), Raymond, (Henry J.), Lt. Gov. of N. Y. 123 (1856), ex-editor of the Times, 296 Ralston, John, tanner, president of Niagara Reading, Pa. (1795), 231 Fire Company (1838), 47 Reading line, railroad, special train (1875), Randall, James G., authority on Lincoln, 331 289, 289n Reed, Cob (Col.?), potato patch at Erie Rankin, Mrs., Annapolis Junction (1863), (1795), 248; Col. Seth Reed (1795), 249 113 Reed, Capt. William, reported early police Rapid Transit Commission, City of New procedure, 23 York (1874), 188; report (c.1875), 331; Reed, William, disorderly soldier at Presque 20 Isle (1795), 249 1965), rev., 162-164 Reemelin, Charles, Ohio delegate (1856), "Rip Van Winckle," mentioned (1863), 116 opposed nativism, 292, 295 Rittenhouse, David, Phila., astronomer, 231 Reese, A. G., Director of Bureau of Land Roads: Braddock, 1; Forbes, 1; directional Records of Pennsylvania, 143 nomenclature, 2; Presqu' Isle Portage, 3; Reese, Thomas, Pgh. Fire Commissioner Franklin Road (c.1813), 5; around Al- (1870), 50 toona (1863), "very stony and precipitous Reese, Graff & Dull, rolling mill explodes and exceedingly illmade," 119, 125; "wag- (1867), 53 gon" road near Le Boeuf (1760), 145 Reeves, Samuel J., president of Phoenix Roberts, Capt., Pgh. police (c.1850), dis- Iron Company (1875), 194, 195, 336 charged, reinstated, arrested, 24 Reinsberg, Mark, "General Stone's Elevated Roberts, E. G., clerk of Pgh. Common Railroad, Portrait of an Inventor," 185- Council (1830), 44 195; 332-343 Robinson, Elizabeth, 117, 117/1, 202 Reiser, Catherine Elizabeth, author, 104 Robinson, George, policing petition (1803), Religion, ofFloride Clemson, 198-200 20 "Reminiscences'Reminiscences of Beltzhoover and Allen- Rochambeau, Comte de, at Yorktown town, Two Old-Time Western Pennsyl- (1781), 143 vania Boroughs," by C. A. Weslager, 251- Rochefontaine, Stephen de, Erie fort builder 262 (1795), 246 Republican Party, Pittsburgh (1856), 289; Rock Island Railroad (1873), suspends serv- birth in Ripon, Wis. (1854); convention ice for farm products, 193 informally called (January, 1856), 290 Rooseboom, Johannes, N. Y. fur trader, "Convention in Pittsburgh," the story of captured by French (1687), 129-130 the national founding convention of a Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin, Works Progress new party by Leonard H. Bernstein, 289- Administration, 52 300 Roseburg, J. R., Eagle Fire Company Rescue Company, East Liberty (1869), 49 (1830), 44 Revolution of 1688, resulting large emigra- Rosenberry, Claude, music teacher, 228 tion fromScotland toUlster, 322/. Rosenman, Joseph, famous chairmaker, fire Rice and Dithridge, real estate in Oakland company member, 42 district (1850), 215 The Rosetta Stone (1798), 283 Richardson, A. P., Beltzhoover Borough Ross, Daniel, early settler in Robinson burgess (1884), 260 Township, built brick farmhouse, 371; Richardson, Henry Hobson, architect, 52 last will (1819), 373; inventory of estate Rickets, Eliza, postmistress, Allentown Bor- (1819), 373-375 ough (1882), 259 Ross, Isaac M., and wife, Elizabeth K., sell Riddle, Directory of Pittsburgh (1815), 41, (1881) part of old Daniel Ross property, 42 372 Riddle, Rev. Henry A., 171 Ross, Mary, wife of Daniel Ross, 373 Riddle, Matthew Brown, theologian and au- Roy Stone Company, business firm (c.1862) thor, letter (of 1850), 171 at Vandalia, 190; insolvency, 343 Ridgeway, Frank, Safety Director, user of Royal American Regiment (60th), as rep- police whistles (1906), 32 resented at Le Boeuf (1763), 146 Riedesel, Gen. Friedrich Adolf, Freiherr Royal Americans, British regiment, 3, 4 von, Brunswick, German , Royal Block House, at east end of Oneida 143, U$n Lake (1759), 134 Baroness von Riedesel and the American Russell, Dr. Daniel, pastor of Bellefield Revolution: Journal and Correspondence Presbyterian Church (1904-1909), 222 of a Tour of Duty, 1776-1783, A revised Russell, Kate, 202 translation with Introduction and Notes Russell Sage Foundation, 274 by Marvin L. Brown, Jr., with the assist- Russian Hutterite houses, Limestone Twp.. ance ofMartha Huth (Chapel Hill,N. C, Warren County, Pa., photo opp. 310

S 55 Sabbath day, sanctity, Pa. state law (c.1830), St. Bridget's Church, Pgh. Seventh ward 45 burned (1875), 53 Sacred Order of Unionists (1859), world St. Clair, Gen. Arthur (1791), 4; defeat, peace through world union, 308-309 238, 253 Sahli, John R., "The Growth of British In- St. Clair Street, later Sixth Street, start of fluence Among the Seneca to 1768," 127- VenangoPath (1754), 3 139 St. Clair Township, once included South St. Agnes Church, Pgh., Soho, burns (1914), Side, 253

21 to. Luke's Church, Altoona, Pa., Episcopal Department (1832), 41, 42 (1864), 203 Seattle World's Fair, monorail feature, 186 St. Michael's School, Pgh. South Side Select and Common Councils, Pgh. (1816), burned (1899), 54 20, 21, 22, 28, 44 St. Paul's Old Cathedral, Fifth and Grant, Pgh., burns (1851), 53 Semple, William, Vigilant Fire Company Salisbury, Ruth, librarian, Darlington Me- ladderman (1815), 41 morial Library, 144 "The Growth of British Influence Among Salt Lick towns, on the Shenango River, 2 the Seneca to 1768" by John R. Sahli, Salt Works, on Saw MillRun, landmark, 127-139 100, 101 Seven Days battle, near Richmond, Va. Sampson, "Squire" John, probable builder of (1862), 190 body of Neptune fire engine, 43 Seven Ranges of Townships in Ohio, the Sandusky, under French control, 146, 147 American Land System (c.1785), Sn Sandy Creek, 141 Shaffer, Elizabeth, land buyer, 99 Saw Mill Run, Allegheny County, Pa., 97- Shannopin's Town, originally the start oi 110 passim the Venango Path, 3 Sawyer, B. C, Sr., Vigilant Fire Company Sharpsburg bridge, burned (1870), 53 (1861), 48 Shaw, Archibald, inspector of Vigilant Fire Scaife, Mrs. Alan Magee, A tribute, written Company (1815), 41 for the Historical Society of Western Shaw, Dickson Courtney, Pennsylvania by Charles A. McClintock, (1862), letter and identification, 269-270; 93 later wholesale grocer, 270 Scarouady (Monacatoocha), Iroquois vice- Shaw, John, m. Matilda Courtney, 270 regent of Shawnees (1747), 59; condemns Shaw, John, son of Dickson Shaw, d. U965), whiskey traders, 62 270 Schells, tavern at top of Knoxville Incline, Shaw, Joshua, painter (1825), 100 252 Shaw, Nancy Wilson, 270 Schenley Farms, Oakland tract and develop- Shaw, Thomas Wilson, great-grandfather of ment, 222 C. A.McClintock, 270 Schenley Farms Land Company, 222 Shaw, Wilson, cousin of Dickson Shaw, 270 School, Fifth ward, Allegheny, burned Shearman, Hugh, Ulster (London, 1949), (1870), 53 324, 324n School: in Allentown (1850), Allen School Shelburne, the Earl of, 137 (1892), 261 Sheldon, Thaddeus S., spiritualist and busi- School records, lacking for Allentown and ness man of Randolph, N. Y., 306-307 Beltzhoover boroughs (before 1912), 261 Sheldon (Thaddeus S.) Papers, 306, 308 Schuck, Jacob, South Side grocer, 258 Shenango River, on Venango Path, 2 Schuyler, Montgomery, architectural critic, Sheriff, John, Pgh. councilman (1830), 45 221 Shinn, W. M., president, Pgh. Firemen's Schuyler, Gen. Philip (1781), 148/j Association (1837), 46 Scientific American Patent Office, Poster, Ships: ironclads bought in Europe (1864), N. Y. (1875), 337 207,211 Scotch-Irish, definitions, 319; really "fully Shore, William, Pgh. councilman, arrested Scottish," 324; Appendix of Galloway (1850), 24 names, about 300 listed, 328-329. Not in- Short, Thomas, member of Pittsburgh Fire dexed Department (1832), 41 "The Ancestors of the Scotch-Irish," by Short, Valentine, land buyer, 99 Joseph Condit McCune, 319-329 Siles, George, reported dead (1864), 206 Scots, migrants to Ulster, disliked inhome- Simen, block, Pgh. fire (1899), 54 land, not numerous (before 1688), 320 Simmerman, L., Beltzhoover Borough bur- Scott, Hugh, Pgh. policing petitioner (1803), gess (1879), 260 20 Simpson, William, surveyor (1795), 241 Scott, J. Walter, buys (1930), sells (1931), Six Nations (Iroquois), object (1763) to re-buys (1934), re-sells (1936), re-buys small posts in their country, 134, 135; (1940) part of old Daniel Ross estate, (1794), 236, 237 Sixth Presbyterian Church, moves to Forbes Scott, Ray, Chappaqua, N. Y., promotes and Murray Avenues (1903), 221 Alcuin Community, 314, 315 Sketch of General Stone's "Rapid Transit Scott, Sam. H., clerk of Pgh. Select Council Elevated Railway" (1876), opp. 343 (1830), 44 "Slack Hollow," hangout of boys of Allen- Scott House, Pgh. hotel (1858/.), 190 town Borough, 259 The Scottish Record Society, wills in the Slavery (1850-1860), 289, 290, 296 county of Kirkcudbright (1624-1725), Slavery, Indians enslaved by South Carolina statistics, 328 traders, 63 Scully, Dennis, member of Pittsburgh Fire Slippery Rock Creek, Pa., 6, 141, 147n;

22 (1795), 242 perimentation, 192 Smink, G. L., music teacher, Allentown and Steamboats, ten burn at Monongahela wharf Beltzhoover Schools, 261 (1859), 53 Smith, Bruce, survey of Pgh. police system, Steel, John, captain (1858) of Niagara Fire report of findings, 34 Company, 47 Smith, Joseph, surveyor (1795), 241 Steen, James T., Pgh. architect (1898), 221 Smith, Miss Leanna, Allentown-Beltzhoover Stengel, Mrs. Martha Pepper, commemora- schoolteacher m. Principal Thomas, 261 tive gift, 276 Smith, Philip, landowner, 98 Sterling, J. M., Cleveland spiritualist (1858), Smith, Russell, painter (1838), 100 308 Smith, Samuel Stelle, The Battle of Trenton Sterrit, Sadie, cousin of Anna Baker, 120, (Monmouth Beach, N. J., 1965); The 197, 208 Battle of Monmouth (Monmouth Beach, Steubenville, Ohio, Crawford settlement N. J., 1964), rev., 369-370 (1857), 107 Smith, William, Provost of College of Phil- Steubenville Pottery Company, 110 adelphia, 5 Steubenville Turnpike, 98, 99 Smith &Minis, builders of modernized Nep- Steubenville's Union Cemetery, graves of tune fire engine (c.1832), 43 Crawford, Mooney, Freeman and Wint- Smithfield Street Bridge, replaced old wooden ringer families, 110 Monongahela Bridge of 1818, 257 Stevens, Dr. Sylvester K., address on 1966 Smolnikar, Andreas Bernardus, Austrian Tour of HSWP, 379 monk, Imperial Professor of Biblical Lit- Stewart, John H., Pgh. Fire Commissioner erature, 302-304; author, 302n, 316 (1870), 50 Smythe, D. W., Beltzhoover Borough bur- Stock Exchange, Pgh., burns (1897), 54 gess (1876), (1877), 260 Stone, Dr., Mass, delegate (1856), 293 Snowden, John M., landowner, 98, 99, 100, Stone, Cornelia, unmarried sister of Roy, 101 337 Society of CivilEngineers (c.1875), 333 Stone, Ella, m. Davis, disinherited, contested South (Confederacy), August 21, "a day the will,337 of fasting and prayer," 118 Stone, Ithiel V., lumberman, father of Roy, South Carolina, big deerskin trade, 60; trade 186 regulation laws (1702), 60-61 Stone, Richmond, b. (1872), son of Roy, South Pittsburgh Hose Company (c.1873), 188, 334 49 Stone, Dr. Robert K., personal physician to South Side, Pgh., many boroughs, 256; President Lincoln, 121\2\nn twenty German families named, 257, but Stone, Mrs. Robert (Margaret Ritchie not indexed Stone), 121, 12\n,\2\n, 206, 334 Spaide, Mrs. Rolland Lee, gift in memory Stone, Romaine, b. (1865), daughter of Roy, of Oliver Evans, 181 334 Spanlding, Judge, Ohio delegate (1856), Stone, Roy, lumber operator, Civil War 296 general, inventor, biog. sketch, 186, 189 Spaulding, Gen. Ira, railroad chief engineer Stone, Sarah Gurnee, mother of Roy, 337 (1875), 331; dies on train, 332 Stone House Tavern (1822), restored by Spear, Charles, brother of John Murray, 305 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Spear, John Murray, founder of spiritualist Commission, 147 colony, 304, 309, 316 "General Stone's Elevated Railroad, Portrait Spear furniture warehouse, Pgh., burned of an Inventor," by Mark Reinsberg, 185- (1899), 54; East End store burns (1923), 195, 331-343 55 Stone's Patent Elevated Railway (1875), Spiritual Springs, last oval house, view opp. 302 and opp. 303 Stotz, Charles M., Early Architecture of Spiritual Springs (earlier, Domain or Har- Western Pennsylvania, 375; foundation monia), spiritualist settlement, 304 committeeman, 375, 376 The Spiritual Telegraph, Boston paper Stoudt, John Joseph, Early Pennsylvania (1858), 3O6az, 308 Arts and Crafts (N.Y., 1964), rev., 165- Spiritualism, in London and Paris (c.1860), 169 309 Street car tunnel, under Coal Hill (1900), Spy and espionage, system of General Wash- 258 ington in American Revolution, 142 Strong, Carlton, architect, designed Belle- Stackers, Mrs. Margaret (Beltzhoover), field Dwellings, 222 left children, 254 The Struggle for Equality, Abolitionists and Stanwix, Gen. John, sawmill builder (1759), the Negro in the Civil War and Re- 101, 151n15\n construction, by James M. McPherson Starrett, Agnes, author, 273; biog. sketch, (Princeton, N. J., 1964), rev., 155-157 275 Stuart, Jesse, Kentucky author, 228 "Steam'Steam Caravan," Syrian monorail, first ex- Sukoski, Robert, important member of Al-

23 cuin Community (c.1840/.), 315-316 "Swearingen's Hill," Hancock County, W. Sullivan, Gen. John (1779), 142 Va., 109 Sunday, observance demanded (c.1803), 20 Swift, E. P., Pgh. South Side farmer, m. Sunday School, Bellefield, as often the early Emma Giffen, 255 stage of a church, 214; Four Mile Run, Swift mansion, Brownsville Road, once 215,217 Knoxville Elks' clubhouse, 255 , boundary line (1768), Synge, Protestant Episcopal Archbishop 138; (1873) loss in lumber traffic, 193 (statistics of 1715), 323

T Timmerman, L. S., survey of Pgh. police T. G. Evans & Co., Pgh., glass and china system, report of findings, 34 dealers, fire (1900), 54 Tokyo Olympics, monorail feature, 186 Tables, police statistics (1868-1887), twelve A Topographical Description of Virginia, police chiefs named, not indexed, 26 Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Caro- Tanning, in , 187 lina (1778), 5 Tatom, Mrs. Dave E., nee Caroline Shaw, Tories (1781), Loyalists, 142 270 Torley, John J., Pgh. Fire Commissioner Taxation, on property of Robert and John (1870), 50 Crawford, 105-106, 107-108 Totten & Hogg Iron & Steel Co. plant Taylor, Bayard, editor of the New York burned (1901), 54 Tribune (1876), 342 Townships, Lower St. Clair and , Taylor, Charles B., subdivision of Oakland 98 acreage (1836), 214 Traffic, river, at Pgh. (c.1858), 190 Teedyuskung, noted Indian chief, 15inIn Trans-Jordan, drab kingdom (1966), Moab- Telephone, aid to Pgh. police, 30 ite stone (1806), 281 Temperanceville, Allegheny County, Pa., 98, Transportation, river traffic (c.1841), 103; 101 communication by water, in canoes or Tennessee River (Cherokee River), 138 batteaux, from Presque Isle to Niagara Texas, as a slave state (1845), 297 and Fort Erie, 147; South Side, Pgh. Theaters: Atheneum, Pgh., burns (1865), (c.1890), 257; in early Warren County, 53; Avenue burns (1905); Grand Opera Pa., poor or non-existent, 301 House burns (1917), 55 Trapp, John, member of Rescue Company Third Church Colony, in Oakland (1836/.), (c.1869), 49 214 Treaty of Greenville (1795), 4 Third Presbyterian Church, saved from fire Trenick, McCall and Richardson, saw mill (1845), 47 (1841), 101 ThirdPresbyterian Church (1836), in down- Trimble, Prudence B., librarian-editor town Pgh., 214 HSWP, 49; report for 1965, 174-176, not "13th Street Electric Line," South Side, Pgh., indexed ephemeral, 258 Trimbly, J. W., Vigilant Fire Company axe Thompson, Daniel W., member of Rescue man (1815), 41 Company (c.1869), 49 Trinity Episcopal Church, 214 Thucydides, concept of history as "philoso- Trunick, James, landowner, 98, 101 phy taught by example," i.e., both social Tuberculosis (1863), 120, 126 and biographical, 280 Turin, exhibition, monorail, 186 Thurman, Lawrence S., rev. of Arndt's Turner Building & Loan Society (1884/.), George Rapp's Harmony Society 1785- Allentown Borough, 259 1847, 361-363 Turnpikes, Noblestown and Temperance- Thurston, Prof. R. H., laboratory for engi- ville, Washington, Steubenville, 98 neering (1875), 331 Twenty Years on the Wing, by John M. Tidioute, Pa., home of A. B. Smolnikar Spear (Boston, 1873), 309, 309n (c.1844), 303

U Union Flag (U.S. Flag), hoisted at Erie Ulster, province of Ireland, 319 (1795), 246 Ulster Plantation (1610), set up by James Union Hose Company, Pgh. (1837), 46 I,319 Union Hotel, Frankstown Avenue, East Underwood, Adelbert, Cuba, N. Y., engi- Liberty (c.1869), 49 neer of Stone's Elevated Railway at Phila. Union Sunday School, Bellefield (1863), Exhibition (1876), 342 215, 217 Union College (N.Y.), 186 Union Trust Company, Pgh., burns (1897),

24 54 University Medical Center, Pgh., Oakland United Kingdom of Great Britain (formed area, 223 1707), 325 , Institute of Local United Oakland Ministry, its welfare center, Government, police training courses, 36; 221; headquarters at Bellefield Church Cathedral of Learning, 213 (1965), 225 University of Pittsburgh Press, Agnes Star- United Presbyterian Church, Steubenville rett, long time Director, 275 (1867), 108 Updegraff, Abner, Vigilant Fire Company U. S. Constitution (1862), 269 ladderman (1815), 41 U. S. Internal Revenue Collector at Steuben- "Utopian Communities in Warren County, ville (1863/.), 108 Pennsylvania," by Ernest C. Miller, 301- Universalists, spiritual sect, 305 317

V 2 Van Trump, James D., rev. of Gowans' "The Venango Path as Thomas Hutchins Images of American Living. Four Cen- Knew It,"by Niles Anderson and Edward turies of Architecture and Furniture as G. Williams, 1-18; 141-154 Cultural Expression (N. Y., Lippincott, The Venango Trail, 1-18 1964), 157-159; "Bellefield's Tower: The Verne, Jules, fictionist, 185 Centenary of the Bellefield Presbyterian Victims of Indians (1795), named as Fin- Church," 213-225, 375, 376 ley, McOrmick, Rutledge (father and son Vandalia, N. Y., 189, 195, 338 fromCarlisle, Pa.), 247 Vastine, Dr. and Mrs. J. R., commemoration Vigilant Fire Company, Pgh. (1811), sixty gift in memory of Mr. John Kimerer, 377 members, 41, 46, 48 Venango (modern Franklin, Pa.), 1-18, 141- Virginia, American colony (1607), 319 154 passim Volksblatt, Pgh. German newspaper (c.1882), Venango Path, name given to several traces, 259

Ww Warren County Historical Society, extensive W. A. HoeveierHoeveler Storage Company, Pgh., manuscript collection, 304 burned (1898), 54 Washington, Anna Clemson, daughter-in- WQED television station, 220 law of Samuel Washington, 206, 206n206rc Wabash River, New Harmony settlement Washington, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel (1815-1825), 310 Washington, 206, 206n Wabash Terminal Building, Pgh., burns Washington, George (1753), 3, 142, 147147n,n, (1946), 55 151n, 289 Wages of , 19-37, passim George Washington, the Virginia Period, Wallace, Paul A. W., Indian Paths of Penn- 1732-1775, by Bernhard Knollenberg sylvania (Harrisburg, 1965), rev., 267- (Durham, N. C, 1964), rev., 161-162 268 Washington, D. C.,C, William H. Mooney, Walter, Caroline, postmistress, Allentown postmaster, 110; (1863), August "heat Borough (1885), 259 and stench," 118, 122; dusty, 204 Walters, John, Beltzhoover Borough burgess Washington Turnpike, Allegheny County, (1882, 1883), 260 90, 99 Walton Company, Pgh. South Side fire com- Water pipe lines, Pgh. (c.1868), 27 pany (c.1873), 49 Waterford (1795), surveyed, 231; (1794), War, caused by Indian debt (c.1715), 64 plan laidout, 238 War of 1812, on the Great Lakes, 1, 4; Way, Abishai, Pgh. councilman (1830), 45 spurred South Side industries, 256 Way (Nicholas) House inSewickley, 371 Warden, Isaac, laid out Temperanceville, Wayne, Gen. Anthony (1794), 4; d. at Erie 101 (1796), 153«; 1794 victory, 240; effect Warden, John B., landowner, 98 onIndians (1795), 247 Warder, Jeremiah, South Side landowner Weaver, Mayor H. A. (1857), 26 (1826), 255 Weir, Gamble, police superintendent Warner, A., publisher, History of Allegheny (c.1887), 29 County, (1889), 42 Weirton Steel Company, laboratory (1965), Warren, Pa., social life (c.1872), 192; sur- 107 veyed (1795), 231, 249 Wemp, Mydert, repairs Seneca utensils Warren County, Pa., its utopianism derived (1756), 131 from N. Y., 301 Wentworth, Thomas, Lord Deputy of Ire-

25 land, later Earl of Stratford (c.1638), William H. Rankin, Chicago advertising oppresses Ulster Scots, 321, 325 agency, 110 Weslager, C. A., "Reminiscences of Beltz- William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, hoover and Allentown, Two Old-Time Mich., 6, 143 Western Pennsylvania Boroughs," 251- William Penn the Politician: His Relations 262 with the English Government, by Joseph West End Bridge, 98 E. Illick(Ithaca, N. Y., 1965), rev., 79- West End Passenger Railway Company, 80 Phila. (1876), gets Exhibition concession, William Penn Memorial Museum and Gal- 339, 340 lery, Harrisburg, Pa., 378 West Pittsburgh, 98, 104-105 Williams, Daniel D., Beltzhoover Borough Western Pennsylvania Institution for the In- burgess (1894-1896), 260 struction of the Deaf, Edgewood, burned Williams, Edward G., co-author of article, (1899), 54 1-18; rev. of Coues' History of the Ex- Western Transportation Company, land pedition Under the Command of Lewis agency, 99 and Clark (N.Y., 1965), 263-265 Western Union Telegraph, losses (1873), Willoughby, Jay, mission, 228 193 Willson, Mary (1864), 209 Western University of Pennsylvania burned Wilson, David, buys ferry landing (1859), out (July 6, 1849), 48, 53, 219, 220 108 Westminster Foundation, a young people's Wilson, George, Presbyterian deacon (1866), organization at Bellefield Church (1950), 217 224 Wilson, William, foreman, Rescue Company, Westward Movement (expansion), of Amer- 49 ican colonials, 127, 133 Winchester, Va., CivilWar battles, 48 Whig Party (U.S.A.) ruined by Kansas- Winkelman, Gilbert, gives land to Order of Nebraska Act, 289 St. Benedictine, Inc., St. John's Abbey, of Whiskey, Old Monongahela, price (1841), Collegeville, Minnesota (1959), 314 103 Wintringer, Harry, Steubenville pottery mag- White, David, publisher of Pittsburgh Ga- nate, 110 zette (1855), 290 Wood, Emily, Bladensburg, 198 White, George R., treasurer of Firemen's Wood, Mrs. Francis C, sister of Lawrence Association, Pgh. (1837), 46 C. Woods, 270 White, William J., asst. chief engineer, Pgh. Wood, James, land buyer, 99 Fire Department (1870), 50 Woods, John, policing petitioner (1803), 20 Wickerham School, Pgh. South Side, burned Woods, Lawrence C, Jr., 269, 270 (1900), 54 Woods, Robert, lawyer (c.1855), 105 Wildcat district, upper Allegheny River Wopsenonock Mountain, near Altoona, Pa., area (1861), 190 124, 125 Wilderness Campaign (1864), 48 Works Progress Administration, in Pgh. Wilkins, John, Jr., boundary commissioner (c.1936), 52; Report of the Frontier (1793), 234 Forts and Trails Survey (1941), 150n Wilkins, Ross, Eagle Fire Company (1830), (1917), 171 44 World War II, hard on Alcuin Community Wilkins, William, president of Vigilant Fire settlers, 315 Company (1815), 41 Worthington pump (1859), 47 William and Mary, Revolution of 1688, Wright, Gen. H. G., engineer, 331 monarchs of independent Scotland, 322; Wyman, D. W., superintendent, elevated not Covenanters, 324 railroad (1875), 331

Y 24 Yamasee War, South Carolina (1715), 60, York, William, land buyer, 99, 104, 107 64 Yorktown, Va. (1781), 143 Yeager, C, Pgh. councilman, arrested (1850),

Z Architecture of Allegheny County," 375- Ziegler, Arthur P., Jr., "The Survey of the 377

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