A SHORT HISTORY
OF

PITTSBURGH

1758-1908

George Washington, the first Pittsburgher

A SHORT HISTORY
OF

PITTSBURGH

1758-1908

BY

SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH

AUTHOR OF "OLIVER CROMWELL: A HISTORY," "PENRUDDOCK OF THE WHITE LAMBS," "JOHN MARMADUKE," "BEOWULF: A POEM," ETC.

PRINTED AT
THE DE VINNE PRESS
NEW YORK
1908

Copyright, 1908, by
Samuel Harden Church

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

Some ten years ago I contributed to a book on "Historic Towns," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York and London, a brief historical sketch of Pittsburgh. The approach of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Pittsburgh, and the elaborate celebrations planned in connection therewith, led to many requests that I would reprint the sketch in its own covers as a souvenir of the occasion. Finding it quite inadequate for permanent preservation in its original form, I have, after much research and