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HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOUR, 1963 C W. W. Elkin The Twentieth Tour of the Historical Society was conducted on July 20, 1963, and comprised a combined bus trip to East Liverpool via U.S. Route 30, through Imperial, Clinton and Chester, and a boat trip on the Chaperon down the Ohio River as far as Steubenville. At East Liverpool an opportunity was given to visit the local museum in the Carnegie Library building, where there is an unusually fine display of ceramics, Indian relics, antiques and a collection of portrait paintings, some of them by David Blythe. On the Chaperon a buffet lunch and a generous dinner were served. Music was furnished by a small orchestra. East Liverpool is a well-known pottery center 43 miles from Pittsburgh on the Ohio River at a point where the river flows east to west, an unusual thing in U.S. rivers. Originally called St. Clair and Fawcettstown, in 1798 it was named for the English town of Liverpool. In 1830 the name was changed to East Liverpool to dis- tinguish it from a town in Medina County, Ohio. Among the various towns passed on the trip down the river was Wellsville, Ohio, founded in 1797, the terminus of the first railroad connecting the Ohio River with the Great Lakes. At an early date there were daily steamer connections with Pittsburgh. Other towns passed on the trip were :New Cumberland, Toronto, Weirton, as well as the Islands Baker, Brown and Black. At Yellow Creek occurred the Massacre at which the noted Indian Logan lost his family, for which his famous (reputed) speech was made. At Steubenville, founded in 1797 and named for Baron von Steuben, drill-master of the Revolution, the boat was turned for the return trip to East Liverpool. On this trip Captain Fred Way, Jr., lec- tured on the various sites on the Ohio and West Virginia shores of the Ohio River. Speaking on pottery and the association of Andrew Carnegie withEast Liverpool, was Mr.Chester Bennett, whose ances- tors took an active part inthe early pottery activities. Mr.Bennett also referred to Carnegie's early life in Old Allegheny and suggested that the proposed stadium in Allegheny be named in Carnegie's honor. Also speaking most interestingly on pottery was Mr. William H. Vodrey, Jr. 408 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

Messrs. Barth, our host at the museum, and Vodrey have been onmany tours and were instrumental inmaking all arrangements for our stop in East Liverpool. In spite of the rain during part of the day, it was a general feel- ing that the members had a most enjoyable trip, thanks to the well- laidplans of Director Christie and the force of the Chaperon.

Incidentally it may be of interest to note that the Columbiana County Historical Society is celebrating Morgan's Raid in the Ohio Valley, in which several of the towns and locations mentioned in the boat trip were concerned. (See article by George Swetnam in the Pittsburgh Press, July 21, 1963.)

AN HISTORICAL VOYAGE James Waldo Fawcett Of course, there are many models for an account of a voyage. Given the necessary talent, one might write as Homer did or Mark Twain, Charles Darwin or Richard Halliburton. The 20th summer "faring-forth" of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania was possessed of most, if not all of the aspects of an Odyssey. It was human, it was novel, it was in a sense adventurous, it occurred in circumstances tangibly heroic. A narrator of sufficient genius very well might have made himself immortal by reporting it with the grace and distinction of, say, Jules Verne. The same observation would apply, no doubt, to the Society's trips, from 1932 onward, to such engaging places as Erie, Beaver, Kittanning, Brownsville, Gettysburg, Fort Necessity, Mountain Lake Park and Brady's Bend. Wherever history has been created there must be reason for historical visiting. That is why people cross the world to Egypt, Greece and Italy. Even under modern conditions of Hiltonian luxury itis possible to have personal acquaintance with the Pyramids, the Parthenon and the Coliseum. It surely was with some such motive that 216 members and friends of the Society assembled at 4338 Bigelow Boulevard, Pitts- burgh 13, on the morning of Saturday, July 20, 1963, and boarded a fleet of four buses rented from Grove City and New Wilmington 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 409 owners for the initial portion of the expedition. The weather was re- marked to be "uncertain," but not one of the enlisted passengers chose to defect. Loading and departing were managed without dis- cernible difficulty under the direction of Robert D. Christie, who gave the impression of being an entire Cook's Tour organization all compact in his imperturbable self. He even had provided that the conveyances should be labeled so that strangers might be informed as to what company was in-transit. It suited some of us indubitably to follow Thorstein Veblen in his notion that riding is socially preferable to walking. In any case we responded naturally to the pleasure of sweeping grandly and in procession through the city and eventually, incredibly soon, over the imaginary boundary into the country known for a century as West Virginia. Notice of arrival at East Liverpool, called simply Liverpool among the natives, was given as we crossed the long bridge from Chester and saw a devotedly agreeable young gentleman of "going on 13" holding up for our attention a sign reading historical society turn left, which our drivers willingly obeyed. At the terminal of our motoring we learned that No. 3 bus had broken down and that No. 4, possibly in harmony with the ancient axiom about precedence, had arrived first. The tourists were welcomed at the Liverpool Carnegie Library and community museum by Harold B. Barth, curator of the latter and an ideal guide for all places and things Ohioan. More than a few of his guests promptly expressed their conviction that every town should have such a collection of antiquities and such a faithful and effective collector of them. Only a few minutes were required to prove that a most appealing aspect of an inhabited center of whatever size is its records, including its artifacts. The story of Rebecca at the well, as told in a yellow-clay pitcher glazed and baked on the now-vanished "peninsula" of Liverpool about 1839, is an example of the fascinating charm of this timeless principle. Leaving the museum with a silent pledge to return to itsomeday, the Dear Lord willing,we walked the short distance to the boat await- ing us. Named, maybe with a cautious intention for the younger generations, the Chaperon, the vessel belongs to Frank Johnston of Cincinnati and his family ;and the captain himself, his wifeand their son were on board and courteously greeted us as we embarked. Their craft is all-steel, neatly painted white, arranged to accommodate 600 people. Its technical definition is that of a "common carrier," but to us, 410 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER at firstglance anyway, it was palatial, within reason even magnificent. Luncheon was served shortly after our ship pulled away from the shore, followed at a proper interval by a delicious supper. But the feast of beauty available to us all afternoon and through the early evening was even more enjoyable. Perhaps the fact that the H.S.W.P. entourage was a special audience had much to do with the impression. Experience on the Nile, the Rhine or the Hudson con- ceivably had prepared us to be appreciative. Seriously, however, the Ohio is a majestic spectacle. Industry has not entirely spoiled it. The grandeur of its bordering hills,stillclothed as they are with the same indigenous flora as the Indians and the first European travelers saw in the 18th Christian century, is what it was when the French de- nominated the river: La Belle Riviere. Oak, red and sugar maple, black walnut, hickories of several varieties, beech, tulip, sweet gum, wildcherry, sassafras and pawpaw trees stillraise themselves from the water's edge as they did when surgeon Johann D. Shopf made note of them in 1784. The same fauna persists according to sportsmen who report encounters with deer, bear, lynx, wildcat, raccoon, opossum, gray and black squirrel, groundhog. Inbrief, the remark of Thomas Ashe in 1806 continues to be a valid comment :"No scene can be more pleasing to a philosophic mind than this." Certainly, we passengers on the Chaperon did not witness every worthy detail recorded by the Ohio's chroniclers. Our craft nonethe- less served our purpose with notable effectiveness. Even those of us who were not professional students of the past were antiquarians of a kind as we were carried through the broad and gloriously verdant valley that day — the anniversary in the Old Style calendar of the poet Petrarch's birth in 1304. We felt, the majority of us, that, as history began before it was told and may endure after no historian remains to tell it,we ourselves are historically significant, at least to the extent of our conscious participation in the place and the time to which we belong. That was the importance for us of the 201st day of 1963. We were alertly alive in the picture of this age in this world, and the value of that truth was dramatized for us by what was happening over our heads. The Weather Bureau had forecast thunderstorms and the ob- servatories had notified us of a partial eclipse of the sun. Both were correct in their prophecies. The double pageant of the heavens was a show beyond adequate description. Over us rolled the natural forces, the dynamic elements, of in- 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 411

finity.We felt them in our minds, our hearts, our very souls. If the privilege of our being however humble fractions of this illimitable and eternal Creation needed demonstration, it was demonstrated con- vincingly, indeed. One quiet, gentle person in our midst whispered: "Wonderful!," and thus spoke a word of thanksgiving for us all. Another, almost equally impressive discovery of our Society's 20th summer tour was that of the marvelous benefaction of human speech. The Chaperon's passengers were articulate folk. Charles A. McClintock, H.S.W.P. president for a dozen years prior to January 21 last, addressed us from the vantage point of his own knowledge of events. Captain Frederick Way, Jr., a representative of a dynasty of Ohio River annalists, gave a reading of Logan's famous speech as we passed Yellow Creek. W. H. Vodrey, Jr., and Chester B. Bennett, descendants of Pittsburgh and East Liverpool potters, discussed the traditions of their families. And there were others who spoke over the microphone, withMr.Christie as master of ceremonies. But also memorable were the numberless informal conversations of groups who—sat on the decks or in the salons during the "run" to Steubenville 25 miles — and back to where the buses were waiting to transport us on our return to Pittsburgh. The subjects of these ex- changes were old times, old friends, old conditions, old dreams, old realities, gratefully remembered. Here we had a manifestation of the central value of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Itis truly a fellowship of persons to whom the past is precious ifonly as a base for the future. We are participants in both the long-ago and the yet-to-be ages because we care. 412 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

ADDITIONS TO COLLECTIONS Library

Our library has been enriched by the addition of a large number of books and other publications. These came to us from two sources, giftand purchase. We also received the publications of many historical societies by exchange. Allare available and valuable for research. The followingis a list of books and other publications (excluding the magazines) received between December 1, 1962, and October 1, 1963. — Anderson, Mrs. W. S. Oakmont, Pennsylvania The Franklin Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1825: Number VII. Calculated by John Armstrong, Pittsburgh. Printed and Published by Eichbaum & Johnson. Through Mr. George Swetnam Beard, Mrs. Ralph W.—Pittsburgh — One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary 1813-1963. Bellevue Methodist Church. By Edith M.Beard. Beardsley, Wallace R—Pittsburgh Vol.I,No. 1 The Pilgrim Echo, Allegheny City, Pa., May, 1880. "Devoted to the Advancement of Christ's Cause in General, and the Interests of Plymouth Congregational Church in Particular." Small newspaper found in the home of the late Alexander Berry- hill, Contains Directory of Plymouth Congregational Church, Allegheny City,—Pa., May, 1880 Belfour, Dr. Stanton Pittsburgh Vol.I,1774-1775, American Archives—Fourth Series. Published by M. St. Clair, Clarke and Peter Force. Under authority of an Act of Congress, Passed on the Second of March, 1833. Wash- ington, December, 1837 ;The Library of Bucknell University, by J. Orin Oliphant. Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pa., 1962 ;Old Haunts and New Places Set to Music, by Ruth and Robert Moore. Aninteresting and unusual travelogue from New York to Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Finland, Holland, England, Africa, New York. Observations on the Winthrop, Bentley, Thomas and 'Ex Dono' Collections of the Original Library of Allegheny College, 1819-1823, by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, first listed by President Timothy Alden in Catalogus Bibliothecae Collegii Alleghaniensis, E Typsis Thomae Atkinson et Soc. apud Meadville. 1823 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 413

Bothwell,Mrs. Margaret P.—Pittsburgh Randall, Henry S.—Lifeof Thomas Jefferson in Three Volumes. New York: Derby &Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1858 Bowman, Mrs. Helen Blair—Pittsburgh Mitchell's School Atlas, Philadelphia :Cowperthwait, Desilver & Butler, 1854 ;Articles of Agreement, D.Blair &Bros., Dr. R. C. Beatty of Collins Township, March 30, 1867 Brown, Mrs. Allen (Henrietta Brady Brown) —Cincinnati, Ohio Some Venables of England and America and Brief Accounts of Families into which certain Venables married. By Henrietta Brady Brown. Kinderton Press, 836 Dixie Terminal Bldg., Cin- cinnati 2, Ohio Burgess, Milton V.—Martinsburg, Pennsylvania Minute Men ofPennsylvania, by Burgess, MiltonV.With a brief biography of their Leader in Blair, Bedford and Cambria counties, Col.Jacob C. Higgins, Including a copy of Col. Higgins' diary of the Mexican War. Morrison's Cove Herald, Martins- burg, Pa., 1962 Calihan, Mellinger L.—Swissvale, Pennsylvania Gift in memory of his uncle, Mellinger E. Henry of Ridgefield, N.J. :Still More Ballads and Folk-songs from the Southern Highlands. Collected by Mellinger E.Henry. Reprinted from The Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol. 45, January-March, 1932, No. 175 — Christie, Dr. John —W. Wilmington, Delaware M'Girr, Wm. Letters upon Divers Subjects in Theology: — Pittsburgh :Printed by W. S. Haven, Corner, Market and Second Streets, 1854 ;Carson, Hampton L.,A History of the Historical Society ofPennsylvania, 2 Vols. Published by the Society Under the Special Centennial Publication Fund. Philadelphia, 1940; Four copies of Who's Who :Vol.16, 1930-31 ;Vol.19, 1936-37; Vol. 23, 1944-45; Vol. 26, 1950-51; Gilleland, J. C, Esq.— The Counting-House Assistant or a Brief Digest of American Mer- cantile Law. Pittsburgh. Published by R. Patterson and Lambdin. Butler and Lambdin, Printers, 1818 Cook, Miss Irene —Pittsburgh Newspaper: The Independent, Monroeville and Turtle Creek. Golden Anniversary Number, Monroeville, Pa., Wednesday, November 21, 1962. Contains valuable historical articles, e.g., "Turtle Creek dates back to 1752," "History of Beulah Church," 414 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

"The Westinghouse Story/' "First Penn Avenue School," "Old Larimer General Store"— Creighton, John W. R. Pittsburgh Souvenir— Bank of Pittsburgh 1810-1896. The oldest bank west of the Alleghenies Denny, Harmar D.—Pittsburgh Two maps :"Pittsburgh in 1839" and "Pittsburgh in 1889." In color and showing location of important buildings, industries, railroads, bridges,—etc. Dilworth,Mrs. Joseph Cheswick, Pennsylvania— Four magazines: History Today November, 1962, December, 1962, January, 1963, February, 1963 Eakin, Miss Myrl—Pittsburgh McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, 1879 Edition, Historic Fifth Reader in Paperback Elkin, Dr. C. W. W.—Pittsburgh Twenty-three copies of WPHM; twelve copies of Pennsylvania History; twenty-two copies of American Heritage; one copy, Squirrel Hill and Its Memories; one copy, War Memorial Allegheny County Medical Society, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Byways and Boulevards in and about Historic Philadelphia, by Francis Burke Brandt and Henry Volkmar Gummere, 1925 ; The Memorial to Washington, by Charles H. Callahan. Published at the Dedication of the Washington Masonic Memorial, May 12, 1932, by the Grand Lodge of Virginia's Bicentennial and Dedication Committee; A History of the United States of America, by Rev. Charles A. Goodrich. With engravings. Third edition, Hartford. Published by Barber & Robinson, 1823 ; Pamphlets: James Craik, Physician General, by Major General Robert U.Patterson, U. S. Army, reprinted from The Military Surgeon, 1932; In Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniver- sary of the Founding of Allegheny College, June 20-24, 1915; A Visit to Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, A. F. and A. M.,by J. Shriver Woods, 1930; The History of the National Highway Route 40, by Dr. William Blake Hindman, 1931 ;Pittsburg and Allegheny, Illus.,Pittsburg, Pa., Myers, Shinkle & Co., Printers, 1892; Clippings: Sun Telegraph— "Mr.Andrew Mellon," "The Pioneer History of Greene County"; Booklet: Stephen Collins Foster Memorial of the University of Pittsburgh, Dedicated June 2, 1937, Stephen Foster Dedication Committee, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 415

Pennsylvania; Municipal Authorities, by Elmer T.Larson, Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania. Dep't of Internal Affairs, Genevieve Blatt, Secretary, 1957— Fawcett, James Waldo Culpeper County, Virginia The Pittsburgh and Allegheny Blue Book 1903, Published by Fidelity Title and Trust Co., 341 and 343 Fourth Avenue; Col- lins, Alan C, The Story of America in Pictures. With an intro- duction by Claude G. Bowers. Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City,N. Y.,1953 (8th printing) ;Joseph Plumb Martin, Private Yankee Doodle. Being a Narrative of some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier. Edited by George F. Scheer. Popular Library—New York. Published in March, 1963 ;Bob Considine, It's the Irish. Foreword by James Farley. Avon Book Division. The Hearst Corporation, 572 Madi- son Avenue, New York 22, N.Y. Foresman, Mrs. Edwin C.—Pittsburgh Album of photographs in ornamental wooden box, wrapped around two large spools, may be turned by means of a handle on the outside. Quaint, unusual. Came from a descendant of the Spalding family of Beaver County. None of the family now living Hackett, Mrs. George D.—Pittsburgh In Memory of the Early Settlers of Squirrel Hilland their Descendants, compiled by C. V. Wilson, C. L. King, Wm. S. Burchfield. Especially including many who are interred in the Turner Burial Ground, Squirrel Hill. Pittsburgh Printing Co., 1905 Indiana Historical Bureau —Indianapolis, Indiana Messages and Papers relating to the Administration of David Wallace. Governor of Indiana, 1837-1840. Edited by Dorothy Riker, Indiana Historical Bureau, Indianapolis, 1963 James, Dr. A.P.—Pittsburgh— Land, Aubrey C. The Dulanys of Maryland. Studies in Mary- land History No. 3, Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society, 1955 ;American Ballads, Compiled by Charles O'Brien Kennedy with the assistance of David Jordan. Fawcett Publications, Inc., Greenwich, Conn., 1962 ;Sir William Johnson Papers Vol. XII. Prepared for publication by Milton W. Hamilton, Senior His- torian. Albany—The University of the State of New York, 1957 ; Baldwin, Leland D., University of Pittsburgh. The Stream of American History, Vols. Iand II.American Book Co., N. Y., 416 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

1952 ;Rothermund, Dietmar, The Layman's Progress, Religious and Political Experience in Colonial Pennsylvania, 1740-1770, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961 ;The Mer- cer Museum. The Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, Pa.; Auchampaugh, Philip Gerald, James Buchanan and His Cabinet On the Eve of Secession, Privately Printed, 1926 ;Re- member WilliamPenn 1644-1944. Compiled by the WilliamPenn Tercentenary Committee. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Har- risburg, 1945 ;Carl Van Doren, Secret History of the American Revolution, 1941. The Viking Press, N. Y.; John K. Winkler, Incredible Carnegie (1835-1919), Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., New York;Charles A.Beard and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization, No. Iand II,The Macmillan Co., 1927; Charles A.Beard and Mary R. Beard, America in Midpassage, Vol.Ill,The Rise of American Civilization,1939, The Macmillan Co. ;Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Vol. XXVII,Anglo-French Boundary Disputes In the West 1749- 1763, Edited by Theodore Calvin Pease. Published by Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, 111., 1936 ;Dunaway, Way- land Fuller, Ph.D., A History of Pennsylvania, New York: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1935 ;Banta, R. E., The Ohio, Rinehart & Co., 1949, Rivers of America Series; Burd Shippen Patterson, The Head of Iron, A Romance of Colonial Pennsylvania. Pitts- burgh, T. M. Walker; Western Ontario and the American Frontier, by Fred Landon, Toronto, The Ryerson Press, 1941 ; Chronicles of Pennsylvania from the English Revolution to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1688-1748, by Charles P. Keith, in two volumes, —Vol.1, 1917 James, George W. Mather, Pennsylvania The Franklin Almanac for the year 1831 :Being the third after Bissextile or Leap Year, and after the fourth of July, the fifty- sixth year of American Independence Number XIII.Calculated by John Armstrong. Pittsburgh. Printed and published by John- son & Stockton Johnson, Milburn—Pittsburgh Rolling Rock Club. Constitution and By-Laws, Rules and Regu- lations. Organized July, 1917, Ligonier, Pennsylvania Kerr, Mrs. Eliza (Mrs. Allen H.)—Pittsburgh Chapman, T.J., OldPittsburgh Days, J. R. Weldin & Co., 1900. Valuable clippings filed in the book ;Chancellor sville and Gettys- 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 417

burg, by Abner Doubleday. N. Y.,Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882 ; Gettysburg The Pivotal Battle of the Civil War, by Captain R. K.Beecham, Chicago, A.C. McClurg &Co., 1911 ;Coal Dust on the Fiddle, Songs and stories of the Bituminous Industry, by George Korson, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1943 ;Pittsburgh A Sketch of Its Early Social Life, by Charles W. Dahlinger. G. P. Putnam's Sons, N. Y. & London. The Knickerbocker Press, 1916 ;The History ofPittsburgh, by Neville B. Craig, Esq., Pittsburgh, J. R. Weldin Co., 1917; John Paul Jones —Commemoration at Annapolis, April 24, 1906, Washing- ton, Government—Printing office, 1907 Kleiss, Frederick A. Pittsburgh — Photo Album—Allegheny Track Elevation 1903 ;Photo Album —New Allegheny Shop— 1905 ;Photo Album (Progress Report) building of Federal Street station (Allegheny), 1905. P.F.W. and Chicago Railroad. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Pass, August, 1883 ;maps :map 17"xl9" State of Ohio—Depart- ment Interior General Land Office, October 2, 1866; map 34"x 36", Youngstown and Vicinity; Maps of Block Coal and Iron from the manufacturing District, April,1871, show iron furnaces and rollingmills. Blueprint, 32"x48", Lippincott's Map of Great- er Pittsburgh, 1923; map 32"x54", showing various channels conveying the trade of the Northwest; map in color 32"x48", township map of Pennsylvania (Barnes, 1861). Folding map, Greene County 24"x28" (1865), (McConnell), shows lot owners in 14 towns; Atlas of Pennsylvania with Descriptions, Walling &Gray, 1872 — Kramer, Mrs. Helen F. Pittsburgh Blue Books: 1908, 1911, 1912-1913, 1923, 1932, 1938, 1944, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1960 Linder, Richard —Pittsburgh Library of Congress. Calendar of the Correspondence of George Washington, Commander -in-Chief of the Continental Army with the Continental Congress. Prepared by John C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1906 ;Listof Washing- ton Manuscripts, 1592-1775, in Chronological Arrangement. Pre- pared from original documents in the Library of Congress, by John C. Fitzpatrick; Calendar of the Correspondence of George Washington, Commander -in-Chief of the Continental Army with the Officers. In four volumes, Vol. I,June 17, 1775-October 19, 418 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

1778; Vol.II,October 19, 1778-December 9, 1780; Vol.Ill,De- cember 9, 1780- January 4, 1784; Vol. IV,Index, prepared by John C. Fitzpatrick from original manuscripts, in the Library of Congress, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C, 1915 ; Calendar of The Papers of Martin Van Buren. Prepared by Eliza- beth Howard West, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1910; Papers of James Monroe. Listed in Chronological Order from the Original Manuscripts in the Library of Congress. Com- piled under the Direction of Worthington Chauncy Ford, Wash- ington, D.C, 1904 ;Manuscripts inPublic and Private Collections in the United States, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1924; Arbuthnot, Thomas S., Heroes of Peace, A History of The Hero Fund Commission. Privately Printed. The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, 1935 ;W.E. Woodward, Meet Gen. Grant, N. Y., Liveright Publishing Corp., Black and Gold Edition, 1946; Robert Fortenbaugh & H. James Tarman, The Pennsylvania Story, Penns Valley Publishers, Inc., State College, Pa., 1950; Sol Bloom, The Story of the Constitution, U. S. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, House Office Bldg., Washington, D.C, 1937; A Century of Saving Dollars—1855-1955. Compiled from the Bank Records and the Recollections of Trustees and Employees by Wm. T.Schoyer, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1955 ;Pittsburgh Schools, Growth of Public Education in Pittsburgh, Vol. XXXIII,Numbers 1and 2, 1958; American Flag Manual, Copy- right 1960, Dansville, N. Y.;Connelley Vocational High School, 1930 Thirtieth Anniversary, 1960, Pittsburgh, Pa. ;Rev. Ralph Erskine, Gospel Sonnets or Spiritual Songs. First Pittsburgh Edition. Pittsburgh: Published by Luke Loomis & Co., D. and M. Maclean, Print. 1831; Remember William Penn 1644- 1944, William Penn Tercentenary Committee, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Instruction. Pennsylvania Histori- cal Commission; Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Li- brary, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1961 ;Catholic Year Book &Directory of the Pittsburgh Diocese, 1910 ;Hazelwood Neighborhood Survey, 1962, Dr. Charles Unkovic & Associates, Sociology Dept., Duquesne University, Pittsburgh ;A Short History of Lawrence- ville,Arsenal Jr. High School Press, June 22, 1936; Pittsburgh, A Brief History, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, by Rose Demorest, 1944; The Railroad Comes to Pittsburgh, by Ken- neth William Schusler. Reprinted from WPHM, 1960. Bureau 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 419

of Research, Duquesne University; two Hardy & Hayes —Blue Books, 1899-1900, 1900-1901; Library of Congress Sesquicentennial Exhibit,April 24, 1950. Catalog of the Exhibit Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of its Establishment, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C, 1950; Book- let: Pittsburgh Electric Railway Club, Review of West Penn Railways, 1889-1952 ;The Harmony Line, A Pennsylvania In- terurban is recalled by a newspaper in one city served. By C. R. Moser, Reprinted by permission from the Ellwood City (Pa.) Ledger, 1959; Greater Pittsburgh, featuring Pittsburgh's Bicen- tennial, 1758-1958, November, 1958;— American Fire Marks; Facts About Pittsburgh; The Point Pittsburgh Bicentennial; Folder containing a program of events marking the 175th Anni- versary of the Constitution of the United States, undertaken by the University of Pittsburgh on the occasion of its own 175th Anni- versary, September 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 1962; Souvenir Program, Dedication of the Arsenal High School, 40th &Butler Streets, Pittsburgh, Pa., November 4, 1932; The Evansville Daily Journal, Evansville,— Indiana, Tuesday Morning, August 20, 1861 ; newspaper Extra, The Ligonier Echo, Vol. LIV, No. 49, "Abandonment of the Ligonier Valley Railroad" ;Photograph of the Original Board— of Education, circa 1911 McDowell,J. Spotts Pittsburgh A geological Hand Atlas of the Sixty-Seven Counties of Penn- sylvania, Embodying the Results of theField Work of the Survey, From 1874-1884, by J. P. Lesley, Harrisburg :Published by the Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1885 Maurer, A.—Pittsburgh Plan, Showing Location of Mains and Distribution Pipe, City of Allegheny, 1882 Miers, Mrs. T. J.—Pittsburgh Legends of Virginia Courthouses, 1934, by John H. Gwathmey ; Incredible Carnegie —The Lifeof Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), by John K. Winkler, New York, The Vanguard Press, 1931 ; Henry Clay Frick The Man, by George Harvey, Charles Scrib- ner's Sons, 1928 Moore, E. Earl—Pittsburgh Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, of August 15, 1885, withillustrations related to Gen. Grant's funeral; News picture of the Arbuckle house on Sherman Avenue, North Side 420 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

Moore, Joseph —Pittsburgh The Courts of Justice Bench and Bar of Washington County, Pennsylvania, With Sketches of the Early Court-Houses, The Judicial System, The Law Judges, and the Roll of Attorneys of that County, and a History of the Erection and Dedication of the Court-House of 1900, With Portraits and Illustrations, by Boyd Crumrine, Chicago, R. H. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1902; The Sights and Secrets of the National Capital :A Work Descriptive of Washington City in Allits Various Phases, by Dr. John B. Ellis,Chicago, Jones, Junkin & Co., 1869; Campaigning in the Philippines: Illustrated, With an Official History of the Oper- ations of the Tenth Pennsylvania Infantry, U. S. V. in the Campaign in the Philippine Islands prepared under the super- vision of Colonel Alexander L. Hawkins, by Karl Irving Faust, San Francisco, The Hicks-Judd Co., 1899; Pittsburgh of Today: Its Resources and People, 4 Vols., by Frank C. Harper, New York,The American Historical Society, Inc.,1931 ;Captain Jack the Scout :or The Indian Wars About OldFort Duquesne, Pitts- burgh, Robert J. Gibson (n.d.) inscribed 1927; Revised Report of the Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National Ceme- tery Together with the Accompanying Documents, As Reported to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania. Harrisburg, Singerly & Myers, State Printer, 1865; Charter and By-Laws of the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh :Or- ganized June 11, 1873: Incorporated November 28, 1881, Pitts- burgh, The Eichbaum Press, 1896; The History of the Twentieth Century Club for 1899-1900, 1900-1901; The Twentieth Century Club of Allegheny County :1894-1904 :Anaccount of the Twenti- eth Century Club for ten years ; The Twentieth Century Club : Member's Book, 1913-1915; The Twentieth Century Club: Member's Book, 1918, 1919, 1920; The donor's grandmother, Mrs. Martha McKennan Moore, served as Treasurer of the Club from 1910 to 1925 ;The Fighting Tenth, by Edward M.Power, Jr., Compliments of The First National Bank, Scottdale, Pa. {circa 1899) ;Proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress, New York City, September 8-12, 1908 and Yearbook 1908. New York: Playground Association of America {n.d.), Copyright, 1909. This book lists seven Pittsburghers, including the donor's grandmother, Mrs. Joseph Henderson Moore, as members of the Congress (pages 28-36), contains speech "What 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 421

Playgrounds Can Do for Girls/' by Miss Beulah Kennard, Presi- dent, Pittsburgh Playground Association, and report "The Play- grounds under the Philadelphia Board of Education/' by Wm. A. Stecher (pages 251-4) ;Centenary Memorial of the Planting and Growth of Presbyterianism in Western Pennsylvania and Parts Adjacent: Containing the historical discourses delivered at a con- vention of the Synods of Pittsburgh, Erie, Cleveland, and Columbus, held in Pittsburgh, December 7-9, 1875, Pittsburgh: Benjamin Singerly, 1876; Fort Ligonier and Its Times: A His- tory of the First English Fort West of the Allegheny Mountains and Account of Many Thrilling, Tragic, Romantic, Important but Little Known Colonial and Revolutionary Events in the Region Where the Winning of the West Began. Based Primarily on the Pennsylvania Archives and Colonial Records, By C. Hale Sipe, Harrisburg, The Telegraph Press, 1932 (First Edition) ; The Soldier's Letter :Vol. 1, No. 1, November, 1898, 2nd edition, and Vol.1, No.2, December, 1898, Manila, P. L,Soldier's Letter Publishing Co., 1898; The Wave, Vol. XVII,No. 24, June 11, 1898, San Francisco, The Wave Publishing Co., June 11, 1898; Memorial Addresses on the Lifeand Character of Charles Sum- ner (A Senator of Massachusetts), delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Forty-Third Congress, First Session, April 27, 1874, with other Congressional Tributes of Respect. Washington :Government Printing Office, 1874. This book contains a speech by Representative Kelley of Pennsylvania; The Centennial Celebration of the Organization of Washington Coun- ty, Pennsylvania: Proceedings and Addresses. Auspices of the Washington County Historical Society, September 7th and 8th, 1881. Washington, E. E. Crumrine, 1881 ;Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. Daniel Webster, of Mas- sachusetts, Secretary of State for the United States :Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Fourteenth and Fifteenth December, 1852. Washington, Robert Armstrong, Printer, 1853; Regulations for the U. S. Military Academy, at West Point, New York, N. Y., John F. Baldwin, Printer, 1873. The name of donor's great-grandfather, William Sutton Moore, whose biography was published in our magazine, is written on the title page with the date "June, 1874." Itmight interest the reader to know that W. S. Moore held the competitive examina- tion for West Point at which Captain Alexander M.Patch was 422 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

successful. Captain Patch later married W. S. Moore's daughter, Annie Moore. Of that union two sons were to become famous generals :Lt. General Alexander M.Patch, Commanding General of the Seventh Army, now deceased, and General Joseph Dorst Patch, the donor's second cousin, now retired ;The DailyEvening Reporter (Washington, Pennsylvania), Vol. 2, Whole No. 437, Monday, December 31, 1877. This issue contains the obituary of William Sutton Moore. See Western Pennsylvania Histori- cal Magazine, Vol.44, pp. 361-382; Program: The Pittsburgh Playground Association Play Festival, Thursday Afternoon, August 13, 1908 Mt.Union College—Alliance, Ohio The Arrow Norwegian-American Historical Association —Northfield, Minnesota Norwegian- American Studies and Records, Vol. XIX, Nor- wegian-American Historical Association, Northfield, Minn., 1956 Peightel, Miss Madelin—Pittsburgh Map—Pittsburgh in 1795 (copy). Includes listof lot owners with names of Revolutionary officers marked with an asterisk Powell, Mrs. William M.—Pittsburgh Stern, Philip Van Doren, They Were Here, with six poems by Walt Whitman, The CivilWar in Action as seen by its Combat Artists. More than 200 original Drawings and Paintings, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York,N.Y.,1959 Rhoads, Willard R.—Pittsburgh History of the Catawissa Quaker Meeting at Catawissa, Columbia County, Pa., and the Roaring Creek Quaker Meeting near Numidia, Columbia County, Pa., 1963. By Willard R. Rhoads Stern, C. A., Ph.D., Sioux City, Iowa Resurgent Republicanism, by C. A. Stern, Ph.D. Western Pennsylvania Research &Historical Society —Pittsburgh Several copies of pamphlet published by the Western Pennsyl- vania Research &Historical Society, The CivilWar Battle at the Columbia- Wrightsville Bridge Williams, Edward G.—Pittsburgh Index to Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, Volumes 1 to 16, incl.;Index toPennsylvania— Archives, Volumes 1 to 12 incl. Woods, Lawrence C, Jr. Pittsburgh The Statesman, Wednesday, December 16, 1825, containing Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress; The Statesman, 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 423

Wednesday, July 28, 1830; The Statesman, August 24, 1833, features an editorial on John Randolph; Pittsburgh Evening Chronicle, July 29, 1874, features the Beecher scandal ;Colliers, Issue of March 8, 1902, features visit and reception of Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the emperor

Genealogy

Colborn, Miss Fern M.—New York, New York Kern Family History. Descendants of Abraham Kern, Wurtem- berg to U.S., 1731. Complete Genealogy of Lt.William Kern, Jr., and Catherine Hoover Kern and their Descendants. By Tilden H. Kern. 1960 Foresman, Mrs. Edwin C.—Pittsburgh Reminiscence and Biographical History of John Spalding and Family Descendants. By Thomas Spalding. A.D. 1893 Hawk, D. W.—Warren, Ohio Family History of Lookabaughs and Hawks, 1740-1958. De- scendants of John Gerradt, Luckenbach and Conrad Hawk. Com- piled by Helen—H.King,B.S., Erwin M.King,D. Walter Hawk James, Dr. A.P. Pittsburgh A Virginia Genealogy. Thomas James (Clerk of Kingston Par- ish, 1783-1786). Ancestry and Descendants, 1653-1961, by Elizabeth Hogg Ironmonger, 1961. Published by Arthur W. James, Crozet, Va., The Cavalier Press, Richmond, Va. McClintock, Charles A.—Pittsburgh Wood Genealogy —typescript of 30 pages containing names of many distinguished Pittsburgh individuals and families Miles,Mrs. Richard K.—Arlington, Vermont Through Chas. A. McClintock. Typescript of 33 pages giving a list of the marriages performed by the Rev. Eliot Elisha Swift, D. D., 1865-1887 Pearce, Miss Helen T.—Clearfield, Pennsylvania Pearce-Kylar-Schmal-Swan-Smith Families. By Helen T.Pearce, 1963 ;Tombstone Inscriptions —Cemeteries in Clearfield County, 1820-1955. Inscriptions typed by Miss Helen T.Pearce Wise, Vernon L.—Butler, Pennsylvania Handsome pamphlet presenting the history of the descendants of Jacob Funck Wise 424 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

Archives and Museum Belfour, Dr. Stanton —Pittsburgh Two Scrapbooks :Nicely arranged, contain items of historic interest and many pictures covering the period from 1884-1892 Bowman, Mrs. Helen Blair—Pittsburgh Articles of Agreement : 1. R. C. Beatty, M.D. (copy), April 1, 1870 2. Thomas Mellon (guardian), April 1, 1872 3. George McWilliams, April1, 1873 Brereton, Mrs. Henry E.H.—Diamond Point, New York Letter by Gen. James O'Hara to his wife,October 3, 1794, written from the Miami Villages. Received by Mrs. Brereton from her grandmother, Elizabeth O'Hara Denny McKnight, whose old home was Killbuck,on Western Avenue, Pittsburgh. Printed in The King's Orchard Callahan, Howard W.—Pittsburgh Medal of the —Pittsburgh Bicentennial, 1758-1958 Croissant, Martin Pittsburgh Two interesting old deeds: (1) Warranty Deed, Sarah M. Bleecker to Thomas Easterly. Dated the 29th day of December, 1848. Recorded in the Clerk's office of Albany City and County (N.Y.);(2) "This indenture, made the First day of July in the year of our Lord" 1884, between E. P. Jones and Esther W. Jones, his wife, of the city of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, parties of the first part, and Michael Shea and Bridget Shea, his wife.—The Indenture shows that the land originally belonged to James O'Hara Denny, Harmar D.—Pittsburgh Passport: issued to J. O'Hara Denny, 18th day of April, 1842. Signed by Daniel Webster, then Secretary of State ;two Wilkins papers: (1)—Application of Hugh Brady Wilkins, Jr., for mem- bership in N. Y. Society of Sons of the American Revolution,— dated 1891 (gives descent from Captain John Wilkins), (2) a handwritten biographical sketch of Hugh Brady Wilkins,— Jr.; leather-bound book used originally as Allegheny Docket James O'Hara Carson. Commencing March Term, 1789, ending June Term of 1792. Latter part of book used as a Herd Book; two account books; framed silhouette (a copy) of Mary Carson O'Hara, 1761-1834 (wife of Gen. James O'Hara), and her grand- daughter, Mary Elizabeth Croghan (Mrs. Edward Wyndham Harrington Schenley), 1827-1903 ;box of letters to and from the 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 425

Dennys, Croghans and Schenleys. Allof the above listed gifts are valuable and important additions to the Denny-O'Hara Papers Fowler, Mrs. George B.—Pittsburgh Mrs. George B. Fowler in memory of her son Neville Fowler : Collection of railroad material consisting of Time Tables, maps, clippings, magazines, drawings, and a very large number of fine snapshots (and negatives) taken by Neville, showing the railroads in which he was interested and the small ones, abandoned or about to be, in the tri-state area Hunter, Robert S.—Bradenton, Florida Bible : Originally owned by the Woods family. Mr. Hunter's grandmother was Fanny Woods, daughter of Tobias Woods, whose father was Elijah Woods for whom Woods Run is named Lessenberry, Mrs. D. D.—Pittsburgh Fine lithograph copy of Stuart portrait of George Washington in hand-carved walnut frame Linder,Richard —Pittsburgh Twolarge glossy prints of old public schools to add to our collection :Fourth Ward Public Schools, Allegheny City,Pa., Lawrence Public Schools, ISth Ward, Pittsburgh, Pa.; A large glossy print containing pictures of 35 public schools in the—year 1935 ; Print of OldStone House, South Park— ;TwoBadges Pittsburgh Bicentennial; Patent to John Beard 1720, Typescript Loughney, Dr. Joseph —Pittsburgh Diary for 1845 :"A.B. Stevenson's Book"—Describes Fire of 1845, prices of commodities, work-wages, etc. Large notebook of Andrew B. Stevenson, containing poems, copybook exercises, arithmetic problems,— epitaphs and "Popular Melodies" Moore, E. Earl Pittsburgh Parchment deed, dated August 9, 1798. Joseph O'Neal, gentleman, to Robert Graham, druggist, parcel of land, western end of Kishacoquilla Valley in Huntingdon County, Township Lofty Oak, containing 440 acres. Consideration $1,325.00; Parchment deed, dated April28, 1818. John Cottman and W.B. Cottman to Jesse Hallowell, dwelling and 2 lots. Oxford Township, Phila- delphia County. Sold for $3,200.00 ;parchment deed, dated April 29, 1818. Jesse T.Hallowell to Moses Davis. Dwelling and 2 lots, Oxford, Philadelphia County ;parchment deed, dated March 20, 1820. Moses Davis and Jemima to Elizabeth Heckling. Dwelling and 2 lots, Oxford Township, Philadelphia County. Consideration 426 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

$3,900.00; parchment deed, dated October 11, 1851. Gilbert Waterman and Ann to Humphrey J. Waterman. Dwelling and 2 lots, Oxford Township, Philadelphia County. Consideration $1.00 — Moore, Joseph Pittsburgh— Medals: Obverse— Bust of George Washington with dates 1732- 1932. Reverse Picture of Fort Necessity, near Uniontown with dates, 1754- July 3-4, 1932; pictures: No. 204 showing a Pressed Molasses Can, Nickel Top, Scale Full Size, made by the Greens- burg Glass Co., Greensburg, Pa.; a Stanley Castor, also with Vinegar, Scale Full Size, made by the Greensburg Glass Co., Greensburg, Pa. Nixon, Miss LilyLee —Pittsburgh APermit for the use of a bicycle :No. of Plate 11824, Pittsburgh, June 28, 1897. Received of Miss R. M. Johns for the use of the City of Pittsburgh, Fifty Cents, which entitles to keep one Bicycle, numbered as per margin, for one year from the first day of April,1897 Osmer, Mrs. Mildred H.—Berkeley, California Document: An authorization to survey dated 29th day of January, 1794, and signed by Thomas Mifflin,Governor of Pennsylvania Plank, Mrs. Harry—Pittsburgh Three G. A. R. badges: (1) McKean County Association, G. A. R. Department of Pennsylvania; (2) J. H. Mullen, Post No.356, Duke Centre, Pa. ;(3) Thirteenth Session Grand Lodge A O U W of Pennsylvania, October 18th, 1904; Lapel button G. A. R. Rankin, Miss Grace A.—Pittsburgh Two pictures: (1) View of Court House, at Pittsburgh, Pa., 1852 ;(2) Picture of an invitation to the Dedication of the present Court House; 24 medals in memory of Hon. Alexander P. Meanor and Hon. Jean Rankin Meanor (Jury Commissioners). Mrs. Meanor was first woman to be elected as an official of Allegheny County Stewart, Wm. E.—New Kensington, Pennsylvania Souvenirs: Pure linen handprint by Dolly Dembo of various symbols of '76 incolor ;A coin struck from parts of the frigate Constitution; a pen inthe form of a gun, stamped Morgan's Raid, Centennial, 1863-1963— Lisbon, Ohio; a piece of Confederate 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 427

Invasion money enclosed in an envelope with a drawing, a flag (in color) and bearing— a Gettysburg stamp Woods, Lawrence C, Jr. Pittsburgh "Photostat of the document containing the names of those instrumental in the great development at the Point"

Glass Dambach, L. Earl—Pittsburgh Three flasks: 1. So-called corset- waisted scroll with "J. R. & Son" (John Robinson & Son) on one side. Made by the Stourbridge Flint Glass Works sometime between 1823 and 1836 when the firm became J. & T. Robinson. Scarce 2. Portrait of Washington with "G.Geo. Washington." First "G" thought to stand for General. Reverse :A large eagle with initials "F. L." A product of one of three plants operated by Frederick Lorenz from 1819 to 1839, possibly from the original plant of Craig &O'Hara, The Pittsburgh Glass Works 3. A large eagle with "W Ihmsen's Glass." A sheaf of grain with "Agriculture" and farming implements. Made at one of the two Ihmsen plants in Williamsport (now Monongahela) sometime between 1833 and 1837. Rare. Their distinction and value lie in the fact that identity of glass house which made them is moulded in the bottle. Rankin, Miss Grace A.—Pittsburgh Donated by Miss Rankin in honor of Hon. and Mrs. George Rankin, Jr., four pieces of vaseline glass : 1. Small Compote — Dolphin Stem 2. Hobnail Sugar withLid 3. Small Spoon Holder— 4. Sweetmeat Plate Grape Cluster Center 428 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

NEW MEMBERS December 1962 -October 1963 Bennett, Mr.and Mrs. Chester B. Lubove, Mr.Roy Bodish, Mr. John A. McWhinney, Mr.Robert W. Brereton, Mr.and Mrs. Randle Manheimer, Mrs. Jack Buchanan, Dr. William K. Mellor,Mrs. Elizabeth Burt Cramer, Mr.and Mrs. Frank F. Morris, Dr. Eleanor G. Cross, Dr.and Mrs.Paul C. Schultz, Mr.Albert C. Douds, Mrs. C. Edward Smith, Mr.Joseph G. Edelblute, Mr.and Mrs. Thomas H. Storey, Mr.Earl C. Frank, Mr. James A. Todd, Mr.Charles G. Frye, Miss Frances C. Towl,Mrs. Theodore C. Gregory, Mrs.Warren C. White, Mr.and Mrs. John F. Hile,Mrs. E. T. Whiteside, Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Hood, Mrs. Elizabeth Wiberg, Mr.John N. Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. S. Harris III Wilson, Mr.and Mrs. John M. Yaman, Mr.Harry M.

3n Jttemoriam December 1962 October 1963 Baker, Mrs. Wilma S. Moore, Mrs. W. G. Bindley, Mr.Albion Oliver, Mr.Bennett Frye, Mrs. Esther L. Parsons, Mrs. Mary H. Hecker, Miss Helen Robinson, Mrs. William Christopher Hunt, Mrs. Roy Arthur Rodman, Mr.Hugh Irish, Mrs. Franklin C. Russell, Mr.John McBride Lathwood, Mr.John Augustus Stone, Mr. Carlton E. Lockhart, Mr.Charles Wardrop, Mr.Edmund D. McKinney,The Rev. Wm. W., D.D. White, Mr.J. C. M. 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 429

COUNCIL OF THE ALLEGHENIES As another step in its long-range plan to promote increased interest inthe heritage of the mountain region of the tri-state area, the Council of the Alleghenies is planning an all-day regional history conference to be held on the campus of Frostburg State College, Frost- burg, Maryland, on Saturday, April 4. Preliminary plans for this Pennsylvania-Maryland-West Virginia conference were announced Friday, September 20, by Prof. B. Floyd Flickinger of Baltimore at a dinner meeting of the Council at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. Preliminary plans were agreed upon after the Council received a promise of cooperation from R. Bowen Hardesty, President of the College. Also Pittsburgh's architectural historian, James D. Van Trump, was elected to the Board of Directors. Approval was also given to Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., a faculty member at Carnegie Institute of Technology, to work with President Kennedy's Regional Appalachian Development Commission headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., in its planning for the economic development and cultural preservation of the entire Appalachian region, to take fulleffect in the next two years. The Council of the Alleghenies is an organization of persons interested inpreserving and promoting the culture and history of the tri-state mountain region. The headquarters of its quarterly journal are located in Pittsburgh.

Council of the Alleghenies 411 Seventh Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 430 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES OCTOBER

THEATRE PROGRAMS Mrs. Curtis and Iare working on a theatre collection of programs, scrapbooks, pictures, periodicals, and books on theatre and drama. Thousands of books, magazines and programs have gone to the Library of the University of Pittsburgh, and ultimately the collection willbe housed in the Special Collections Room of the new Hillman Library for the use of future students of the theatre. Our main emphasis is onNew York,Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh material. We believe many members of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania have scrapbooks, magazines and programs that willadd materially to the record of nineteenth and twentieth century theatre. We are especially interested in programs of the Pittsburgh commercial and community theatres. If you have programs of The Masquers, Stage and Play Society, YMHA, Carnegie Tech and the Pittsburgh Playhouse they willbe most welcome. And of course the old Pittsburgh Opera House, the Duquesne, the Alvin,the Pitt, the Nixon. Please help us acquire the programs and pictures of yesterday that they may serve the students of tomorrow. Ford E. Curtis 507 Glen Arden Drive Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15208 661-9155 1963 HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES 431 OUR NEW INDEX

The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the issuance of a cumulative index of approximately 600 pages covering forty-three years (1918-1960) of their quarterly publication, The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine.

This book provides ready reference to personal and place names (except lists), important events, firms and many general subjects appearing in the context.

Itis the result of nearly four years of painstaking work by Dr. Alfred P. James, professor emeritus, University of Pittsburgh, a scholar of history. It will prove to be a boon to those engaged in historical research.

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