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Author:	Parke, John E., 1806-1885
Title:	Recollections of seventy years and historical gleanings of Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Print source:	Recollections of seventy years and historical gleanings of Allegheny, Pennsylvania Parke, John E., 1806-1885 Boston: Rand, Avery & Company, 1886
Publication Info:	Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library 1999
Availability:	This work is believed to be in the public domain with no known restrictions on access and use.
Subject terms:	Allegheny (Pittsburgh, Pa.)--History. Allegheny (Pittsburgh, Pa.)--Biography.
URL:	http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00hc17478m;view=toc;c=pitttext

Contents

Recollections of seventy years and historical gleanings of Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Biography of John E. Parke

Preface and Dedication

History of the Town of Allegheny and Reserve Tract

Borough of Allegheny

An Ordinance Creating the Offices of Fire Wardens and Bell Ringer

List of Officers of the Borough of Allegheny Since Its Organization

Organization of the City of Allegheny

Annexation of the Borough of Manchester with the City of Allegheny by Act of the Legislature Approved March 12, 1867

The Pittsburg Blues

A Reminiscence of the War of 1812

A Legend of the "Shertee"

Pontiac's Plot -- the Great Indian Uprising of 1763

Struggling against Misfortune

Riot at the Temperance Ark, Allegheny, May 16, 1843

The Cotton-Mill Riots in the City of Allegheny, Monday, July 31, 1848

Gas Explosion at the Methodist Protestant Church, Allegheny

Steam-Boiler Explosion, of the Cotton-Batting Factory of James and Andrew Fife

Firemen's Riot, 1849

The Great Rain-Storm and Local Flood of the 26th July, 1874

Reminiscences of the Old Third Street Theatre

The First Bank Robbery in Pittsburg

Paper for the Society of Old Residents

Tradesmen's Industrial Institute

Western Theological Seminary

Occupany of the Commons by the Western University and the Western Penitentiary

Pittsburg and Allegheny Orphan Asylum

Pittsburg and Allegheny Home for the Friendless

Home for the Care and Maintenance of the Poor of the City of Allegheny

A List of Directors and Officers of the Allegheny Poor-Board

Pennsylvania Reform School

Pittsburg Almshouse

Fifth Ward Public Schools

History of the Allegheny Observatory

Globe Plow Works

The First Rope-Walk

The First Glass-Works Erected in Allegheny County

The First Iron Rolling Mill Erected in the City of Allegheny

Allegheny Gas Company

The Original Burial-Place in Allegheny

Mount Union Cemetery

Rev. Wells Bushnell

Rev. David Elliott, D. D., LL. D.

Rev. Joseph King

Rev. Luther Halsey, D. D., LL. D.

Rev. Job Foster Halsey, D. D.

Rev. John Taylor Pressly, D. D.

Rev. Joseph Stockton, A. M.

Rev. Elisha P. Swift, D. D.

William B. Adams

Herman De Haven

Jacob Strickrath

Alexander C. Alexander

Henry Baldwin Earle

James C. Butler

Robert S. Cassatt

William Cochran

Hugh S. Fleming

John Hannen: Sketch of the Builder and First Warden of the Western Penitentiary

Gen. Alexander Hays

George S. Hay, M. D.

George Leichtenberger

H.H. McCullough

Death of Hon. Ormsby Phillips

William Robinson, Jun.

William Barclay Foster

Rev. Allen D. Campbell

Rev. James Rodgers, D. D.

Rev. Thomas Sproull, D. D.

Alexander Young