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Authors : Davison, Elizabeth Mary., McKee, Ellen Blanche., Group for Historical Research, Wilkinsburg, Pa
Title: Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and vicinity: the village, 1788-1888
Print source: Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and vicinity the village, 1788-1888
Davison, Elizabeth Mary.McKee, Ellen Blanche.Group for Historical Research, Wilkinsburg, Pa
Wilkinsburg, Pa: The Group, 1940
Publication Info: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library
1999
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This work is believed to be in the public domain with no known restrictions on access and use.
Subject terms:
Wilkinsburg (Pa.)--History.
Wilkinsburg (Pa.)--Genealogy.
URL: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00awk9209m;view=toc;c=pitttext

Contents
Annals of Old Wilkinsburg and vicinity: the village, 1788-1888
[Titlepage]
Contents
1743-1788 \\ 1. Settlement of Western Pennsylvania Prior to 1788
1788-1814 \\ 1. The Mother Church of Beulah, Part I
2. McNairtown
3. The Dunning McNair Family
4. William Park
5. Charles Bonner
6. The Morrow Family
7. Rippey's Tavern or Rippeyville
8. Lewis Stattenfield
9. David Little
10. The Alexander Family of Wilkinsburg
11. The Long Family of Penn Township
12. Beulah Church, Part II
1814-1830 \\ 1. Library Society of Beulah Church
2. The Art of Medicine in and about the Village, Part I
3. The Stotler Family
4. The Henry Chalfant Family
5. The Coal Industry in Wilkinsburg
6. Old Currency
7. The Nathaniels I, II, III, IV of the Montgomery Family
8. The Samuel Taylor Family
1830 \\ 1. The Story of Kelly's Lands
2. Education in the Village, Part I
3. Limestone
4. The Will of Frederick Stoner
5. The Anderson-Ludwick Families
6. The Horner Family
7. William McCrea Family
8. The Horbach Family of Wilkinsburg
9. The William Boyd Family
10. Mrs. Jane Boyd Wadsworth
1840 \\ 1. Extract from Harris' Directory of Pittsburgh 1841
2. Brief History of Methodism in Wilkinsburg
3. Rev. I. C. Pershing
4. The Grahams
5. The Reformed Presbyterian Church, or the Curch of the Covenanters
6. Samuel Henning Family
7. Samuel Henry
8. Major Henry Allshouse, Colonel Joseph Allshouse, Lebbaeus Allshouse
9. The Northern Pike Johnstons
10. Death of the Reverend James Graham
11a. History of Hebron United Presbyterian Church
11b. 1550-1858 The Covenants
12. Union of Churches
13. John Black
14. Alexander Hamilton
15. The Village Postmasters
16. Abraham Stoner
17. Edward Thompson [and] Moore Thompson
18. Ancestors of the Rev. Joseph Hunter and His Wife Mary Anne Deniston
19. John and Susan Rice
20. The United Bretheren Church \\ 21. James Mason Family of Maple Valley, Penn Township
1850 \\ 1a. John Scott Lacock
1b. Mr. John V. Kennedy
2. Overland
3. James R. Newell
4. The Ancestors of Dr. John Semple and Mrs. Sarah Semple Ferguson
5. Stockman Family
6. A Plea for Care of Historical Documents
7. Jackson Family
8. Old Wilkinsburg
9. Milestones and Toll Gates
10. The I. G. Macfarlane Family
11. Thomas Davison and Luke Babe Davison Families
12. The Old Academy
13. William Anderson, 1828-1905
14. George Reed Johnston Family
15. Richard Beatty, IV
16. Pioneer Homes and Hospitality
17. Duff, Quigley, Turner, Kitchen Families
18. The Art of Medicine, Part II
1860 \\ 1. Soldiers' Letters
2. The Ludden Academy
3. Philotus Dean
4. Dr. Benjamin Cutler Jillson
5. The David Collins Family
6. Sections of the Village
7. Jane Grey Swisshelm
8. Hugh W. Calderwood Family
9. The Organization of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkinsburg
10. Music in the Village
11. Short Sketches
12. Gardens
13. St. James Roman Catholic Church
14. The Hampton Family
15. History of the Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf
16. The Pittsburgh Female College
17. John and Rebecca McFee
1870 \\ 1. Mrs. Oliver Wylie's Private School
2. The Taylor School
3. The Public School, Part II
4. Home for Aged Protestant Women
5. History of the Sheltering Arms
6. William H. DeVore
7. The Wills Family
8. Oscar M. Tucker
9. James Kelly versus the City of Pittsburgh
10. The Vigilance Committee
11. Trinity Reformed Church
12. Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Wilkinsburg
13. Park Place Steam Laundry
14. The Newspapers
1880 \\ 1. John James Campbell [and] Rebecca Brimmer Campbell
2. Saint Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church
3. First Young Men's Christian Association of Wilkinsburg
4. Daniel Carhart
5. A Brief History of Waverly Presbyterian Church
6. John P. Evans Family
7. Organization of the First United Presbyterian Church of Wilkinsburg
8. The Rev. M. M. Patterson, D. D.
9. Impressions of Newcomers to the Village in 1883
10. Natural Gas
11. Joseph A. Kennedy
12. Our Club House
13. Charles Ranson Coffin
14. The Carothers Family
15. Telephone Service Prior to 1889
16. Some Queer Characters and Beliefs
17. John Wesley Beatty
18. Struggle for Borough Incorporation
19. By Way of Farewell and Exhortation