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1 J feb1119 The WesMSi: Pennsylvania Historical Magazine INDEX Volume Published quarterly by THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 4338 Bigelow Boulevard, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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3 3 A Abbott, William D., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 9 Abingdon, Earl of, member of House of Lords, defender of America, mentioned in Van Home letter, Additions to Collections:Library, Genealogy, Archives, Akin, Elijah, of the biographical sketch in "Descent Raftsmen's Guard," Alberts, Robert C, The Golden 9 Voyage The Life and Times of William Bingham, rev., 69-71;rev. of Stotz's Point of Empire: Conflict at the Forks of the Ohio, Allegheny Cemetery, entrance of, designed by George Jackson Townsend, 259 Allegheny City College, succeeded Westminster College after approval of Theological Seminary by Presbytery at Little Beaver (1856), ; life of Westminster College after ten years, 342 Allegheny City College faculty (185) listed; the Rev. John Newell, principal (1859) ; school became Newell Institute (1863), 342 Allegheny Community College, Monument Hillproposed site for new campus, 228 The Allegheny Frontier; West Virginia Beginnings, , by Otis K. Rice, rev., "The Allegheny Story," by William M. Rimmel, Allen, Col. Ethan, Deist, becomes Baptist, 136 American furniture, English in ancestry, soon surpassed the English; imagination made English design simpler, restrained use of carving and inlay; American cherry and curly maple beautiful, 251 Amish settlements in Somerset County (1800) : Glades near Berlin, and along Casselman from Meyersdale and on to Grantsville, Maryland; Amish settlement in Conemaugh Township and extending to present Johnstown, founded by Joseph Schantz (Johns), 327 Andrews, J. Cutler, rev. of Holt's Forging a Majority. The Formation of the Republican Party inpittsburgh, , Another Day, Another World, Isabel Gardner Malone's Story of Her Childhood, by Isabel Gardner Malone, rev., Architecture of Western Pennsylvania between 1785 and 1815 illustrated inexhibit 27, Fort Pitt Museum, with details from four dwellings of Western Pennsylvania, and with period furniture, 51 Arnold, General Benedict, court-martial of, Artifacts found in archaeological diggings at Fort Pitt few in number; destroyed by flooding, grading and filling, for modern buildings and freight yards, 40; found remnants of original stone footings, portions of brick wall;uncovering of southern point of Flag Bastion and northern point of Music Bastion important ;story of various original segments and still-pictures in sequence projector, Exhibit 14D, Fort Pitt Museum, 40 Artillery casemates, Exhibit 15A, Fort Pitt Museum, one of underground rooms for conversion of bulk army supplies to finished ammunition, 41; 12 casemates in all, Exhibit 15B, Fort Pitt Museum, for assembling of ammunition and storage of all kinds; suffered from flooding and timber rot, 42 Atherton, Lewis E., The Pioneer Merchant in Mid-America, rev., in "Book Notes/' Audubon, by Himself, ed. by AliceFord, rev., in "Book Notes," B Baptists, eighteenth century in Providence, 127; sect outgrowth of Roger Williams' ministry, 128; church college in Providence, College of Rhode Island (later Brown University), 128; Dr. Manning, first president, toured Pennsylvania and New Jersey to strengthen sect, 128; missionary tour of Virginia by Mr. Fleeson, 133; revival meetings, New England, successful, 136; Deist, Colonel Ethan Allen, converted, 136 Barbeau, Jean, French engineer who published plan of Pittsburgh (1830), lived in Blockhouse, 37 Barber, Henry C, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 9 Bardsley, Charles Wareing, M.A., English Surnames. Their Sources and Significa- tions, rev., Barracks for soldiers and officers and brick building for commandant, in Exhibit 17, Fort Pitt Museum, 42 Barton, Lucy, one of first three Carnegie Tech graduates in drama (1917) ; founded Cleveland Playhouse, 362 Bates, Samuel P., History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, , mentioned in Reinsberg's "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 7;incomplete and rather inaccurate rosters of Bucktails, now Company D, 13th Reserves, in History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, , 7 Beal, Rebecca J., Jacob Eichholtz , Portrait Painter of Pennsylvania, rev., Beers, Paul B., narrator and compiler of The Pennsylvania Sampler, I

4 4 Belfour, Dr. Stanton, "A Tribute Given at the Meeting of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Dec. 3, 1969," by C. V. Starrett, 83; photograph of Dr. Belfour, opp. 83; tributes to, from Pittsburgh newspapers, 84-5; In Commemoration Gifts, 86-7; In Commemoration Gift, frommr.and Mrs. Alexander P. Reed, 316 Berlin, Robert H., rev. of Warner's The Private City. Philadelphia in Three Periods of its Growth, Birdseye, Clarence, writer who praised practicality of training at Carnegie Tech, 353 Blair County Dunkards, first permanent white settlers (1760) ;century later, founded Juniata College (1876), 326 Blockhouse (1764), at present day, one of three redoubts to protect flood damaged ramparts; two more added later; Blockhouse oldest building of authenticated date west of mountains; presented by Mrs. Schenley to the DAR of Allegheny County (1894), who restored it, 37 Blockhouse model, Exhibit 14A, Fort Pitt Museum, cut away to show construction; photographs show additions and alterations, Bloom, Albert W., rev. of Karp's The Jewish Experience inamerica, Blythe, David G., picture owned by Scullys on loan at Carnegie Institute and Whitney Museum of American Art, "Book Notes," cornp. by Florence C. Mc- Laughlin, Bothwell, Margaret Pearson, "Some Pioneers and Some of Their Descendants," Bouquet, Colonel Henry, and 500 soldiers won decisive battle of Pontiac's War, and saved garrison at Fort Pitt; Exhibit 24B has two dioramas, one the "Flour Bag Fort," and the other, next day's simulated retreat; Thomas Hutchins' topographic drawings of battle site, and detailed section of map with overlay of second day's troop movements ;area now set aside as historic area for visitors by Commonwealth, 48-49; sent in 1764 with 1,500 soldiers to Ohio country; Indians submitted, Bouquet demanded return of all captives in 12 days; Exhibit 24C, Fort Pitt Museum, shows delivery of white captives, 49 Bowman, Larry G., "Virginia's Use of Blacks in the French and Indian War," Brackenridge, Judge, letter of Protest to Pittsburgh Gazette on mutilation of Hog- Back-Hill for erection of Western Theological Seminary (1786), 227 Braddock, General Edward, used freed Virginia Negroes and mulattoes as batmen to officers, became combatants in battle by his orders, with some casualties, 59 Branning, Rosalind L., rev. of Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr, 2 vols., The Brenneman- History (1938) by Dr. Albert H. Gerberich, traces family from early 1600's in Europe to far corners of 20th century United States, Brodhead, Colonel Daniel, correspondence with General Washington concerning James O'Hara, and comments on Brodhead by early Pittsburgh historians, footnotes, Brumbach, Dr. Gaius Marcus, traces history of family from Europe to Pacific coast in Genealogy of the Brumbach Families (1913), 323 Brumbach, Martin Grove, Governor of Pennsylvania ( ), descendant of Blair County Dunkards, 326; a description of Brothers Valley settlement quoted from his book, A History of the German Baptist Brethren- in Europe and America (1899), ; a settlement in Fayette County (1787), described by Brumbaugh, 333 Bucktail Regiment, Company D, 13th Reserves, biographical sketches of ninety-two men in this Civil War rifle company from Warren County, Pa.; called selves Raftsmen's Guard; volunteered after fall of Ft. Sumter, 1;embarked for Pittsburgh May 20, 1861, in uniforms sewn by local women, 2; lauded by newspapers, 3; recruits along way, 4; Pittsburgh hospitable, 4-5; given Episcopal prayer books by ladies of Allegheny City with speeches, 4-5; entrained for Harrisburg, May 26, 5-6; roster of men examined at Camp Curtin, May 29, 1861, 6-7; thirteen rejected, 7 Bucktail Regiment, later Company D, 13th Reserves, one of the sources for men's biographies listed, 7 Byerly, Andrew, and other Germans founded Brush Creek Settlement (1759) ; many Indian attacks, 326 cc The Cabinet Maker and Upholstered Upholsterer's's Drawing-Book, Sheraton's furniture guidebook, popular in America, 251 Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, Heppelwhite's furniture manual, popular in America, 251 Cabinet makers, in America, noted for high- boys and lowboys in Philadelphia; for block-front furniture in Rhode Island; for inlay furniture in Baltimore, 251 Campbell, Robert, new partner with James O'Hara for firm of Smith and Douglass, 277 Cannon given by LaFayette to General Washington for Army (Exhibit 18), given Fort Pitt Museum by Pennsylvania His-

5 torical and Museum Commission, Carnegie, Andrew, offer of a technical institute for Pittsburgh accepted by Pittsburgh City Council (1901) ; considered a complement to Carnegie Institute to advance Pittsburgh's welfare, 349; technical school would train future industrial leaders, 350; emulate Germany, 350; no endowments to Ivy League schools ; Cooper Union, Stevens, Franklin, Tuskegee, Hampton Institutes, received his help, 351 Carnegie graduates ( ) had little impact on Pittsburgh industry, 356;no industrial leaders produced, 356; industrial leaders found apprentice system unprofitable, 357; only Westinghouse believed in training, 357; managers not interested, ; attendance dwindled, School of Industries, 358; graduates employed in Pittsburgh, World War I, 359 Carnegie Institute, trustees to administer plans for Carnegie Tech;committee of 27 chosen by Carnegie, and nine more to represent city; school not to encroach on universities, but serve needs of industry, 352 Carnegie Institute of Technology, created 1912 ;school of Mechanics and Journeymen became School of Industries, 356 Carnegie Tech, given 32 acres by City of Pittsburgh (1903) ;Carnegie's endowment large, 352; potential for higher education in Pittsburgh ignored; Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed more rapidly; Pittsburgh school won fame side Pittsburgh, 361; fame for establishing first Division of Applied Psychology (1916) ; psychology applied to business, 362; at disposal of national government, World War I;2nd Battalion of 15th Engineers Brigade, formed of Carnegie Tech alumni and students ;classes for 8,000 enlisted men; vocational rehabilitation for discharged soldiers, 363; more famous outside of Pittsburgh than in Pittsburgh; by 1920 over half of student body from other sections of the United States, 365 Carnegie Tech Drama School, early history of, 361; nation's first college branch of Theater Arts, 361; four-year baccalaureate course for acting, staging and writing, Carnegie Tech psychological rating scales, used by the United States Army to rate all personnel. World War I, 362 Carnegie Technical Schools (four), goals listed, 352; fourth year of study added (1910) to enable graduates to compete with degree holders, 355; certain departments granted degrees in 1912: School of Industries granted degrees in1915, 356 Carnegie Tech's Division of General Studies, established (1919), 364 Carpenter, John F., roster of men from Bucktail Regiment examined at Camp outsjde Cur- tin, May 29, 1861, 6-7 Carson, Mary, betrothal to James O'Hara, 374; father, WilliamCarson, 374; Margaret Scully's notes for novel on the O'Haras, ; Mary Carson O'Hara's last days, 386 Chalkley, Thomas, portion from Journal written on the Mary Hope (1710), Chapel, Adelbert M., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 9 Charcoal iron industry, a rural activity;first iron furnace in western Pennsylvania (1790) ;11 by 1800, near necessary water, limestone, timber, and roads;household and military articles and pig iron for use at forges; Exhibit 28E cut-away view of charcoal iron furnace, with photographs of early iron furnaces and samples of finished articles of iron, 54 Chippendale, Thomas, furniture manual, Gentlemen and Cabinet-Makers Directory, popular in America, 250 Christie, John W., and Dumond, Dwight L., George Bourne and The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable, rev., Christie, Robert D., "Historical Tour of 1970," Church, Samuel Harden, called Pittsburgh's poverty "the poverty of hope," 361 City Planning Commission, Three Rivers Improvement and Development Corporation (Pittsburgh) urge making Herr's Island into water recreational area, 215 Civil War diary of Harry White, shows effect of prison life on him, 245; avoided discussing Libby, 245; escaped going to Andersonville three times, 246; sent to Macon, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, 246; joined freed prisoners, successful, returned to Indiana (1864), 246; commissioned Colonel near end of war; brevetted by Lincoln a Brigadier General, 246:served until Appomattox, 246 CivilWar Monument for Old Allegheny, remains of at new Lake Elizabeth, Clancy, David Henry, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 9-10 Clark. William H.. biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 10 Classical schools and academies, many established bv Scotch-Irish Presbyterian ministers, Clinton, General Henry, takes Stony and Verplank's Points, 127; punitive campaign ai^ainst against Connecticut towns, 127; New Haven burned, 130 dough, Eleazer A., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 10 Cobb, Myron C, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 10 Collins, Cordello, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 10 Colored children, Old Allegheny, not permitted to attend white schools ; location of i 5

6 6 makeshift school rooms, 231;school board ignored Congressional order to integrate, until forced, 231 Commandants during entire history of Fort Pitt, listed in Exhibit 14E HE at Fort Pitt Museum;Lieutenant Matthew Ernest, Major Isaac Craig only officers known by name after 1786, In Commemoration Gifts, January 1970, Dr. Stanton Belfour, 86-7; Miss Roberta T. Johns ;for Stanton Belfour, 207;for Mrs. Katherine Vastine Bernheimer, 208; for Miss Roberta U. Johns, 208; for Mrs. Agnes C. Kline, 209; for Oliver Kaufmann, Jr., 209 Connolly, John, object of petition from Pennsylvania Germans to Governor John Penn, 332 Constitution of Pennsylvania (1776), discontent with; parliamentary-type with unicameral legislature, no executive branch ; formation of "Anti-constitutionalists" ;later completely rewritten, 131 Constitutional Convention, Pennsylvania (1874), part played by Senator Harry White, 247 Coughlin, Francis, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Craig, Neville B., historian, born in Blockhouse, 37 Crisis, American patriotic publication, Croghan, George, mention of death in Pittsburgh area in deed executed by Henry Heth (1788), ; Croghan once great landowner in western Pennsylvania, including Point, 141 Crombie, John Newell, "Some Notes on Early Local Schools/' Croylands, home built by General Harry White inindiana, Pa.;its 1,000 acres long since parcelled out;house at northern edge of Indiana; being restored by Historical Society of Indiana; restoration cost (1970), $50,000; original cost to General White ( ), $6,000, 247; picture opp. 247 D Davis, Samuel, early Pittsburgh cabinet maker, specialty, clocks, 252 Davis, William H., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 11 Deming, Andrew Jackson, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 11 Denny, Ebenezer, episode of flag planting at Yorktown, 279 Denny, Elizabeth Febiger O'Hara, wife of Harmar Denny, story told in her obituary, "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard. A Roll Call," by Mark Reinsberg, 1-32 D'Estaing, Comte, story of his cooperation with Washington in attempt to retake Newport, 114//.; joined General Lincoln in unsuccessful attack on Charleston, then to West Indies, 132 Devirs, James, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 11 Devoge, Theophilus, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 11 DeWitt, Robert M., comp., The Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown, rev., in "Book Notes," 298 Dinwiddie, Lt. Gov. Robert, found Virginia militia of low quality, and deserters in E Early American furniture of English ancestry, made by cabinet makers rigidly trained in England and Europe before French and Indian War; Virginia Assembly uncooperative in improving militia; gave Col. George Washington regiment to protect Virginia's frontier, 60; freed Negro slave, Francois ;furnished useful information on Ft. Duquesne (1757), 63 Doctors onhorseback Pioneers of American Medicine, by James Thomas Flexner, rev., Drake, Dr. Daniel, description of the Rev. William Van Home in Pioneer Life in Kentucky, 137; Dr. Drake, founder of Cincinnati Medical College, 137 Dunfermline grant, Carnegie's endowment to birthplace, for baths, parks, gymnasiums, library, and technical school, 351 Dunkards, in Berlin, Pennsylvania, vicinity (1762); Philip Wagerlein there (1771); thirty Amish and Mennonites listed as taxables in Brothersvalley Township (1782) ;town of Berlin (1788), 327 Dunton, Joseph W., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 12 Dunton, Stephen B., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 12 Dutchtown, German-born section of Old Allegheny, Rhine-wine Balls, singing societies and Turnvereins ; suicides ; superstitions and Old World cure-alls ;New Year's celebrations and traditions, migrating to America; Jacobean, mid- seventeenth century a littleover 13 years; Queen Anne ( ) ; Chippendale ( ) ; Heppelwhite ( ) ; Sheraton ( ) ; gradual transition

7 7 from one period to next, "Early Furniture of Western Pennsylvania; or the Avocation of an Internist," by Robert W. McDermott, Ebersohl, Johannes, family traced, 324 Eckelberry, Mrs. John W., In Commemoration Gift for Miss Roberta T. Johns, 87 Eckerlin, Thomas, and brothers, first settlers in Greene County; with other Dunkards finally settled on Cheat River; their Dunkard Bottom settlement ravaged by French and Indians, 326 Eckert, Allan W., The Frontiersmen, A Narrative, rev., 77-80; Wilderness Empire, A Narrative, rev., Egle, William Henry, Pennsylvania Genealogies, rev., th century ordnance, two "wallpieces," one F Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, : A Study of Frontier Ethnography, by George D. Wolf, rev., in "Book Notes," Fayette County, has most distinctive Western Pennsylvania furniture, with outstanding Hepplewhite and Sheraton using tasteful inlay, 253 Fayette County cabinet makers, made fine inlaid Hepplewhite and Sheraton furniture, 252 Ferree family, related to Benjamin Kuykendall; daughter Christiana m. Col. Joel Ferree, 145 "Few De Joy," Marbleheaders' July 4 celebration (1778), one of first mentioned in Van Home letter, Field manuals of English engineers at Fort Pitt based on French handbooks ; French, masters of art of war, 38 First Lutheran Church in Pittsburgh (1782) in log building at present Wood and Diamond Streets, 335 First Presbyterian Church, chandelier presented by O'Hara, 383, 384n, First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, associations of General and Mrs. James O'Hara with, Fleming, Dr. Alexander, daily ministry to sick and wounded soldiers through Pittsburgh Subsistence Committee during Civil War, 260n, 86 Flexner, James Thomas, Doctors on Horseback Pioneers of American Medicine, rev., Flintlock musket, loading and firingexplained by sequence projector, by voice and pictures, Exhibit 16, Fort Pitt Museum, 42 "Flour Bag Fort," one of two dioramas in Exhibit 24B, in Col. Henry Bouquet's campaign against Pontiac, in "Fort Pitt Museum," Part II,by Charles Morse Stotz, 49 Forbes, General John, drove French from Ohio Valley (1758) ; Exhibit 13C in Fort cannon from England, Exhibit 23D, Fort Pitt Museum;cannon bought at auction in London (1968), 46 The Elements of Heraldry, by William H. Whitmore, rev., 195 Ellison, Horace W., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 12 English Surnames. Their Sources and Significations, by Charles Wareing Bardsley, M.A., rev., Espenshade, A. Howry, Pennsylvania Place Names, rev., 393 European Civic Coats of Arms; A Concise Guide in Colour, by Jiri Louda (London, 1966), 196 "The Exploration of a Legend/' by Frank Pollicino, Pitt Museum shows five color drawings of important parts of march, against map of route from Fort Bedford to Fort Duquesne, 34; had 2,000 British regulars, and 4,000 provincials at Fort Bedford; ill, in litter most of the way;colonel Bouquet assumed command, 34; christened site "Pittsburgh," 35-6;ordered day of Thanksgiving for victory, Exhibit 13E, Fort Pitt Museum; the Rev. Charles Beatty, chaplain, preached sermon, 36-7 Forbes army, composition of, Exhibit 13D, Fort Pitt Museum, 36 Ford, Alice, ed., Audubon, by Himself, rev., in "Book Notes," Forging a Majority. The Formation of the Republican Party in Pittsburgh, , by Michael Fitzgibbon Holt, rev., Forsythe, James, paid for patent on "Long Knife" acreage by selling maple sugar on trip to Cumberland, Md., 148 Fort Allen, Westmoreland County, erected by Pennsylvania Germans (1774) ; many Germans at fort signed petition to Governor John Penn for aid against John Connolly, 332 Fort Fayette, described, 281 Fort Ligonier, construction of, depicted in Exhibit 13C, Fort Pitt Museum; defeat of Major Grant and Forbes' arrival at Fort Duquesne in Exhibit 13C, 35 Fort Pitt, 16-foot-wide model in center of William Pitt Memorial Hall, Fort Pitt Museum, fully portrayed; 18 acres would cover all of Point up to Hilton Hotel; good summary description of fort and its environs, 54-56; Lower Town, 56; King's Gardens extended as far as present-day Home's store, 56 Fort Pitt, ordered by William Pitt (1758), to withstand assault of an army with artillery;portion of original masonry walls exposed to view near Park entrance; Exhibit 14C, Fort Pitt Museum, illustration

8 8 shows masonry ramparts under construe- construc- tion;upper illustration, building a sod wall, needing great care;case of implements and tools like those for construction of fort; bottom of case paved with original bricks from fort walls, 39 Fort Pitt historic powder horn, Exhibit 20, Fort Pitt Museum, 43 Fort Pitt Museum, pictures and drawings of buildings and exhibits: opp. 40; opp. 48; opp. 56 "The Fort Pitt Museum. The Story of Western Pennsylvania Before 1800 As Portrayed in the Museum Exhibits," Part II(Conclusion), by Charles Morse Stotz, Fort Stanwix, treaty at (1769), opened southwestern Pennsylvania officially;treaty and i 6 Gannon, Michael, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 13 Gano, John Stites, and Goforth, William, New Jerseyites who helped found Columbia, first settlement in city limits of Cincinnati, 137 Gazzam, Mrs. Laetitia Jackson, life, 258 Gear of British Regular soldiers and American troops, Exhibit 23B, Fort Pitt Museum; littleissued, much improvised, 45 Geer, Nelson, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 13 Geisinger, George, policeman for Allegheny's parks, strict, Genealogy of the Brumbach Families (1913), by Dr. G. M. Brumbach, traces migration from Germany to the Pacific, 323 General Butler, Pittsburgh vessel, story of, 37U The Genesis of Western Culture; the Upper Ohio Valley, , by James M. Miller,rev., in "Book Notes," Gengembre, Charles Antoine, Young French architect disillusioned with graft offers in building of City Hall, Allegheny City; his The Commandments window, Gentlemen and Cabinet-Makers Directory, Chippendale's furniture manual, popular in America, 250 George Bourne and The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable, by John W. Christie and Dwight L. Dumond, rev., Gerberich, Dr. Albert H., The Brenneman I History (1938), traces family from early 1600's in Europe to far corners of 20th century United States, German Reformed and Trinity Lutheran congregations in Bedford (1769), 329; John Penn authorized collection of six hundred E pounds for erection of churches, 329;Bedford German Reformed Church (1770), Zion Lutheran Church, incolerain Township (1777), Messiah Lutheran (1778), and deed of 1784 opened up almost all of re- mainder; Erie Triangle opened (1792), 329 Foster, Eliza C, Pittsburgh "Sketches and Incidents," described, 380», 183 Francois, Negro slave escaping from Fort Duquesne (1757), furnished Lt. Gov. Dinwiddie with useful information;set free, 63 Freeman, Francis H., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 12 Frontier scout, indispensable to Col. Bouquet to procure intelligence and carry dispatches, Exhibit 23C, The Frontiersmen, A Narrative, by Allan W. Eckert, rev., Furniture of Western Pennsylvania, produced ; 80,000 people in Western Pennsylvania (1790), 250 Schellsburg Union Church (1806), German Reformed Church, Williamsburg, probably 1798, with a stone church in 1822; Zion Evangelical Lutheran church dedicated in 1827, 334 Glass industry in Pittsburgh district;o'hara and Craig (1797) ; Albert Gallatin near Brownsville; Benjamin Bakewell's flint glass (1808) ; Exhibit 28D shows early glass-blowing methods, tools of craft, and samples of glassware, Glover, General John, Marblehead sailors and fishermen, with maritime obedience became General Washington's headquarters and provost guard; manned boats indelaware Crossing; as brigade, prominent role in defeat of Burgoyne, 111; brigade joined General John Sullivan at Providence, 115; returned to direct command of General Washington after Rhode Island campaign, 125 Glover's Massachusetts Brigade, the Rev. William Van Home made chaplain of (1778), 111 The Golden Voyage The Life and Times of WilliamBingham, by Robert C. Alberts, rev., Gordon, Abner M., Jr., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 13 Gratz, Barnard and Michael, biographical sketch, 270*>, 103 Grist mills of Western Pennsylvania numbered 600; George Washington's mill at Perryopolis ( ) first water-powered mill west of the mountains; Exhibit 28A, photographs of early grist mills fromearly Architecture of Western Pennsylvania, a model of grist mill machinery, and a genuine early burr stone; repair of mill stone, 52 Guldin, the Rev. Mr., described in Diary (1710), arrival of Mary Hope in Philadelphia; his land adjoined that of Hans Herr group, 220

9 9 H Hailperin, Dr. Herman, rev. of Marcus* Studies in American Jewish History, Hall, Ribero Desan, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Hall, Robert, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 14 Hall, Roscoe A., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 14 Hamblin, Albert G., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 15 Hamblin-Hamlin, confusion in records explained in "The Raftsmen's Guard," 15 Hamblin, John, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Hamerschlag, Arthur, first director of new Carnegie Tech, 352; personal struggle against poverty, 352; science lectures in eight centers attended by 19,000, 353; groundbreaking, April 1905, 353; Carnegie Tech's Director, government's Director of Industrial Research, World War I, 363 Hamlin, Sylvester C, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 16 Hand, General Edward N., holdings near Pittsburgh bought by John Sullivan Scully, 173 Hand, General, James O'Hara's commanding officer at Fort Pitt mentioned, Hans Herr House (1710), now museum, 222;bronze tablet, inscription, 222;granite memorial in Willow Street Mennonite Congregational Graveyard, 222; bronze tablet near church lists names of eleven original settlers, 222; money for memorial school never materialized, 223 "Harp and Crown," inn owned by William Carson in Philadelphia; Carson esteemed by Congress, 374 Harrison, David G, C, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 16 Harrison Gray Otis, , the Urbane Federalist, by Samuel EliotMorrison, rev., Hart, Col. Joseph, parishioner of the Reverend William Van Home, Pennsylvania legislator, and recipient of Van Home Revolutionary War correspondence, Hascall, Benjamin Franklin, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 16 Hatton, John C, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 16 Henlan, John C, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 17 Henry, O., description of early 20th century Pittsburgh, 360 Hepple white, George, furniture manual, Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, popular in America, 251 Herr, Benjamin, anecdote about him quoted from Baldwin's Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 212; biographical sketch, , 218; mentioned in thesis of H. C. Douds, 216; early life, marriage to Magdalena Lichte, list of children, 218;Benjamin, descendant of the Rev. Hans Herr, 218 Herr, Fred R., "Herr's Island," Herr, the Rev. Hans, children listed, 218; leader of Swiss Mennonite group to Pennsylvania (1710), Lancaster County, 218; men in group listed, ; Penn grant in Pequea Valley, 219; group letter to friends inamsterdam, 219; group probably sailed from London on Mary Hope (Chalkley Journal), ; minutes of meetings of Penn's Commissioners of property with Hans Herr group (Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. 19), Herr Station, on Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad, 214; branch of Pittsburgh Junction Railroad crosses north end of island, 214 Herr, Swiss ancestry and background, ; inset illustration, Hans Herr house, 226 "Herr's Island," by Fred R. Herr, Herr's Island, commercially useful to Pittsburgh, 211;part of Indian trail west, 211; original owner, William Wilson, 211;purchased by Benjamin Herr (1797) from George Wallace and Ann Wilson, 211; five maps of island listed, with property owners, 212, 214; map reproduction of island (1852), 213; meat-packing industry and stockyards predominate by 1925, 214; 30th Street Bridge used until 1925, 214; 31st Street Bridge opened (1928), 214; stockyards, packing plants closed (1966), 215; redevelopment plans many; but most popular that of water recreational area and regional park, 215 Herr's Island stockyard, owned by Pennsylvania Railroad and Baltimore & Ohio until 1933, then by Pennsylvania Railroad only, 214;stockyard stopover for livestock trains until 1966, 215 Heth, Henry (also spelt Heath), family farm scene of many sessions of Virginia Court for Yohogania County, 141 Heth, or Heath clan, many descendants in western Pennsylvania; Mrs. Edna Heath Denniston, Finleyville; Dr. Erie M. Heath, Upper St. Clair; Henry K. Heath, Allegheny County; Ross Heath, Greenock, Pa.; Don Reid Heath, Uniontown, Pa., architect, 141 "Historical Tour of 1970," by Robert D. Christie, History of the Pittsburgh Synod of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, traces Pennsylvania German settlements in Western Pennsylvania, 329

10 10 Hixson, Richard F., Isaac Collins. A Quaker Printer in 18th Century America, rev., Hoack, George W., rejected after examination; in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 17 Hobart (Holbert?), Freeland, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 17 Hog-Back-Hill, became Seminary Hill, then Monument Hill,227 Hogg, Captain Peter, assigned to build forts across Virginia frontier;additional burden on Virginia militiamade Negro labor vital, 61 Holmes, "Pittsburgh Jane," left her house as Home for Protestant Incurables ;summary of feature story on Home, 261n, 87 Holt, Michael Fitzgibbon, Forging a Majority. The Formation of the Republican Party in Pittsburgh, , rev., Home for Protestant Incurables, incurables, gift of Jane Holmes, ;1967 statistics on Home, 261n, 87 Horigan, Edmond, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard/' 17 Hornbostel, Major Henry, architect, overcame Andrew Carnegie's objection to a theatre on campus by redesignating plans a "Dramatic Laboratory," 361 Home, William Van, silhouette of, 107 Hosely, Martin S., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 17 Hovendon, Captain Richard, leader of American Tory company of cavalry in British mentioned service in Van Home letter, 108 Hughey, J., Washington County cabinet maker, has signed desk in HSWP (1808), 252 Humphreys, Thomas K., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 17 Hutcheson, Harold, Tench Coxe: A Study in American Economic Development, rev., Hutchins, Thomas, topographic drawings of site of Battle of Bushy Run, and detailed section of his map with overlay of second day's troop movements, in Exhibit 24B, Fort Pitt Museum, 49 I Immigrant labor, exploited in Pittsburgh in 20th century, 360 Immigration influx, one-fourth of Pittsburgh foreign-born (1910) ; World War I stemmed tide, 359 Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, , by Albert Cook Myers, rev., In Commemoration Gift, from Mrs. Robert W. McKnight, for Robert W. McKnight; from Mr. and Mrs. Alexander P. Reed, for Stanton Belfour, 316; from Anne H. Bowes, for Stanton Belfour;from Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Christie, for Thomas H. Eddy; from Mrs. Rolland Lee Spaide, for Milton W. Leggett; from Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Christie for Mrs. Louise Brown Porter; from Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Christie, for Ewing L. Rafferty; from Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Christie, for Professor George B. Waldrop, Indian Border raids ( ), details of diorama 13A, Fort Pitt Museum; Indians find settler greater menace than armies, 33 Industrial education, criticized after World WarIby Robert J. Aley, Paul A. Douglas, and Dr. John H. Leete, "Interests Transcended :The Early History of Carnegie Tech," by Henry C. Zabierek, Isaac Collins. A Quaker Printer in 18th Century America, by Richard F. Hixson, rev., t J Jackson, Margaret D., rev. of Another Day, Another World, Isabel Gardner Malone's Story of Her Childhood, Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics, by Edward Pessen, rev., Jacob Eichholtz , Portrait Painter of Pennsylvania, by Rebecca J. Beal, rev., Jacobs Lutheran Church (1773), Fayette County, called "OldDutch Church," 330 ( Jewett, John T. A., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 18 The Jewish Experience in America, Edited and with Introductions by Abraham Karp (1969), rev., Jobes (Jobs?), Calvin, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 18 Johnson, Amos H., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 18 Junkin, George D. (Q.?), biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 18-19

11 11 K Kalisch, Philip A., rev. of Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography, Karp, Abraham, ed., The Jewish Experience inamerica, rev., Kelly, James, offer of Wilkinsburg ground for school accepted by Presbytery (1848) ; Westminster College and Westminster Seminary, 338 Kennedy, Graham Madison, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 19 Kibbey (Kibbe?), William J., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 19 Kincaid, Thomas H., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 19 Kinnear, Robert A., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 19 Knowlton, Byron D., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 20 Kuykendall, Benjamin, many name variations, 143; justice of one of courts of Yohogania County ( ), 143; mentioned in session minutes as having seen Major Edward Ward on way to Virginia after surrender of Ft. Duquesne, 144; eleven children in will, 145 Kuykendall, Susannah, m. James Forsythe; Joseph Forsythe ( ), family genealogist, 146 L Lacey, General, detachment protecting Bucks County (1778), almost wiped out, 109 Land purchases of James O'Hara, 373; Charles Shetler quoted, 373n, 171;financial worry, ; "land poor," 386 Landis Valley Farm Museum, lent tools on display in Fort Pitt Museum, 39 Lane, Benjamin J., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 20 Large family, distillery people, Lauder Technical Institute, Dunfermline, Carnegie's special pride, 351 Lee, General Charles, court-martial mentioned in Van Home letter, 112 Lee, George W., rejected after physical examination; in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 20 Libby Prison, experiences of Harry White (1863), 245; attempt to escape failed, 245; refused exchange because he would give Pennsylvania hawks a majority of one, 245; transferred to prison in North Carolina, three months in solitary, 245 The Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown, comp. by Robert M. DeWitt, rev. in "Book Notes," 298 Liggett, James, Pittsburgh cabinet maker, advertising mahogany furniture (1819), 253 Lindsey, WilliamJohn, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 20 Lobb Cemetery, at rear of Youghiogheny Court House, many Whiskey Rebels buried, victims of smallpox, 148 Louda, Jiri, European Civic Coats of Arms; A Concise Guide in Colour, rev., 196 Louis Philippe, entertained in Pittsburgh (1797) ; James O'Hara rescued a champagne glass now in Historical Society collection, ; party at Ormsby's tavern, 370 Lutheran and German Reformed Churches in Berlin (1777) ; in Salisbury (1788) ; Friedens church activity, : ; Stoyestown (1788), 334 Lutheran Church, Westmoreland and Fayette counties, active before 1790; in Washington, Greene, and Allegheny counties by 1806, 335 Lyman, Samuel Burton, biographical sketcn in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Me McConnell, Frederic, one of first three graduates of Carnegie Tech's Drama Department (1917) ; instructor stage production at University of California at Berkeley and assistant director of its Greek theater, 362 McDermott, Robert W., M.D., rev. of Flexner's Doctors on Horseback Pioneers of American Medicine, 66-69; and the S1. Davis Clock, 210; "Early Furniture of Western Pennsylvania; or the Avocation of an Internist," McDonnell, Abina Townsend, life, 261 McKnight, Kate Cassatt, Old Allegheny crusader against litterbugs; enlisted help of children in Fifth Ward Public School; organized "The Monday Class/' Class," which became the Twentieth Century Club (1894), list of charter members of "The Monday Class," McKnight, Robert W., In Commemoration Gift from Mrs. Robert W. McKnight, 316 McLaughlin, Florence C, G, rev. of Eckert's The Fr&ntiersmen, A Narrative, 77-80; rev. of Eckert's Wilderness Empire, A Narrative, 77-80; "Margaret Townsend Scully's Trunk," Parts Iand II, ; rev. of Morrison's Harrison Gray Otis, , the Urbane Federalist, ;

12 rev. of Zeiger's Republicans and Labor, , ; "Margaret Townsend Scully's Trunk," Parts IIIand IV, ; comp., "Book Notes," ; "Margaret Townsend Scully's Trunk," Part IV, Section II, ; rev. of Myers' Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, , McMurray, John, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard/ 1 21 McNaughton, David G., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 21 McNeil, Hugh, lieutenant of Warren County's Raftsmen's Guard of lumbermen, Civil War, 2 McNeil, Hugh Watson, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," j M Maguire, the Rev. Charles Bonaventure, Pittsburgh priest (1820) ;footnote, 177 Malone, Isabel Gardner, Another Day, Another World, Isabel Gardner Malone's Story of her Childhood, rev., Manning, Marion Scully, childhood memories of grandfather and home, Denis Sullivan Scully, The Manuscript and Miscellaneous Collections of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, A Preliminary Guide, Part Nine (continued from July), EA Collections, ; Part Ten, EB, Articles, Books, and Lists, ; Part Eleven, FA, Autographs, Albums, Registers, etc., ; Part Twelve, FC, Copybooks, Correspondence, Letterbooks, 400; FD, Diaries, Journals, etc., ; FE, Miscellaneous Bound Manuscripts, ; FF, Family Bibles, Genealogy, etc., 407 Marble, Albert P., early critic of Carnegie Tech, 354 Marcus, Jacob Rader, Studies in- American Jewish History, rev., Margaret Scully's Novel, Part IV, sections Iand II,of "Margaret Townsend Scully's Trunk," "Margaret Townsend Scully's Trunk," Parts IIIand IV, by Florence C. McLaughlin, ; Part IV, section II,367-3S6 Marsh, Albert, not inducted; biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 22 Martz, William Henry, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 22 Masontown Mennonite Church, Fayette County, probably second oldest Mennonite congregation west of Alleghenies ; Mennonites settled area before 1800, 333 Masten, Charles H., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Masten, James Hackney, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 23 Matthews, William H., called for reform in living conditions of poor in Pittsburgh, 360 Mayer, Stanley D., rev. of Hixson's Isaac Collins. A Quaker Printer in18th Century America, Members, New (1968), 88-89; in memoriam of, 89; not indexed Memorabilia of officers, Fort Pitt Museum, Exhibit 23A: swords and pistols, candle- sticks, wooden chest, dispatch case, engraved salt horn, and wine chest belonging to officers, Mencken, H. L., denunciation of living conditions in early Pittsburgh, Mennonite publishing house, located in Scottdale, 333 Mennonites, in Westmoreland County in period; George Mumma, near Scottdale (1794), earliest settler in Westmoreland County, 333 Mercer's Fort (1758), forms Exhibit 22 in Fort Pitt Museum; rumors of large French force on way caused Mercer to destroy out-buildings of fort; French diverted to Fort Niagara, defeated by British;fort a square formed by log buildings joined at ends by stockaded bastions, Metz, Charles, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 23 Meyer, Lt. Elias, surveyor of Fort Pitt site (1761) ;made topographical survey of entire area around Forks of the Ohio, including location of Saw Mill;plan of fort and layout of King's Gardens used in preparation of fort model, 14B, Fort Pitt Museum, 38 IMeylin, Martin, one of original Herr settlers, famous gunsmith, 223 ;made earliest known Kentucky rifle, 223; honored by "Pennsylvania Rifle Day" (1949) ; only known Meylin rifle presented to Lancaster County Historical Society by Martin Meylin, seventh generation, 223; inset illustration, Meylin Gun Shop, 224; old anvil attributed to Meylin also presented to Society, 225 Migration of Pennsylvania Germans; moved west and north from Philadelphia, west over mountains, and south into Maryland, etc.;about one-third of colonial population of Pennsylvania, 321; Lutheran or Reformed, Dunkards, Amish, ; every county in Pennsylvania had German stock, 322 "Migration periods, Pennsylvania Germans; 1769, 1784, 1794, 322 ''Migrations of the Pennsylvania Germans to Western Pennsylvania," Part I, by Homer T. Rosenberger, Miller, James M., The Genesis of Western Culture; the Upper Ohio Valley,

13 , rev. in "Book Notes," Milspaugh (or Millspaugh), biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's I Guard," 23 [Minor business interests of James O'Hara, [Mitchell, Perry, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," "The 'The Monday Class," organized by Kate Cassatt McKnight, became the Twentieth Century Club (1894), 239 Money depreciation (1779), and list of prices in Van Home letter, 122; fixing of prices by Congress futile, 125; Philadelphia merchants battle problem of depreciation, 126;comment on inflation, by the Rev. Mr. Van Home, 133; anti-inflation mobs, Philadelphia, 134;inflation in Boston, 135; Continental dollar ceases to circulate (1780), 136 Morrison, Samuel Eliot, Harrison Gray Otis, , the Urbane Federalist, rev., Morrow, William, pension application to Congressman Harmar Denny (1834) ; Morrow's experiences in Northwest Territory with Wayne's Legion; make-up of sublegions, Morton, Joseph C, rev. of Hutcheson's Tench Coxe: A Study in American Economic Development, Munn, Robert F., rev. of Rice's The Allegheny Frontier; West Virginia Beginnings, , Murdoch, Alexander, "The Pittsburgh Rifles and the Battle of Drainsville," Historical Society Notes and Documents, Muzzy, Edwin, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 24 Myers, Albert Cook, Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, , rev., Myers, Fred A., rev. of Beal's Jacob Eichholts , Portrait Painter of Pennsylvania, N Negro troops, used by General Braddock as batmen to officers;became combatants in battle, 59; (1755) used by Colonel Washington to free white Virginia militiamen to bear arms, 60; invaluable to Col. Washington's expanded Virginia militia(1756) ; injury, disease, desertion among whites, 61; invaluable in building forts across Virginia frontier during French and Indian War, 61 Negroes, used in colonial militias during French and Indian War, 57; Virginia best example, as leader among southern colonies, 57; Virginia frontier vulnerable, 58; her black population large, 58 Newell Institute, boys at Seventh Street, Pittsburgh; girls at Penn Avenue, 114 boys, 106 girls (1874), 343; list of students known to have attended, Newell, James R., became principal of Allegheny City College (1860) ;changed name to Newell Institute (1863), 342; also in charge of Fourth Ward School ( ); resigned and opened school for boys, later for girls, 343 Newell's death closed Newell Institute, Notes and Documents, HSWP :"The Pittsburgh Rifles and the Battle of Drainsville," by Alexander Murdoch, Nutting, Charles C, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 24 oo Ober, Henry, donated fountain for Ober Park, 238 O'Brien, the Rev. William F. X., first resident priest of Pittsburgh, n, 188 O'Hara, Charles, "the other O'Hara," O'Hara, General James, troop transport named for, 169 "O'Hara inamerica," Section IIof Margaret Scully's novel, source material for, 269; 88 primary and secondary sources, 269», 101; resume of, ; taken on by Devereux Smith and Ephraim Douglass as partner in Indian trade, after legacy, 270;adventures, O'Hara, young James, as fictional character in Ireland, ; at College of St. Sulpice, 265; Grandfather Major O'Hara, ; in Coldstream Guards, 267; busi- ness training inliverpool, O'Hara, James, military career in Margaret Scully's projected novel, , ; contractor for provisions of Western Army and difficulties, ; appointed Quartermaster General, 282; his correspondence with General Anthony Wayne, ; two Negro servants, their indentures, ; appointed Assistant Quartermaster in Army of the United States (1781) ; mustered out of service (1783), ; Presidential elector for General George Washington, ; pioneer in Pittsburgh glass, ;first glassmaker to use coal, 369; Major Isaac Craig, his partner, ; O'Hara glass interests turned over to Denis S. Scully and Harmar Denny, 370; works finally sold to Frederick

14 Lorenz, 370; contributed to salaries of organist and rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, 382; kept "priest's room" in early home, 382, gave land for erection of Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Pittsburgh, 383;as elder presented chandelier to First Presbyterian Church, ; taph, 386 O'Hara, Mary Carson, described (1783), 374; sketch of father, ; trip to Pittsburgh as O'Hara's bride, 375; anecdotes about, ;presentation of silver baptismal bowl to First Presbyterian Church, 385 O'Hara-Craig glass partnership, Neville Craig and Dorothy Daniel quoted, 369n, 157 Old Allegheny, its history repeats itself; Monument Hill,mutilated recently to make way for Three Rivers Stadium, site of Civil War monument now removed, 227; former name Hog-Back-Hill changed to Seminary Hillwhen Western Theological Seminary was builtupon it, 227; this early mutilation opposed by Judge Brackenridge (1786), 227 Old Allegheny Reformers, include epi- Mayor A. P. Callow (1872), against gambling, even penny prize bags; the Hannahs, against Sunday newspapers; the Allegheny Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church, against librarians riding to work clad in bloomers, and against seminarians who smoked ; W. M. Stevenson, a librarian who censored book lists, 229 Old Allegheny School Board problems many: Robert M. Park threatened with horse whip for trying to collect taxes (1834) ; town had 63 school systems with 412 school directors ; corruption; teachers lured to Pittsburgh by higher salaries ; school boards tried to hire friends, Old Allegheny school officials opposed a high school (1880) ; old planing mill and cigar factory remodeled for first high school in use (1883); outgrown; then State Legislature authorized new building, completed (1889); addition (1904), 232 Old Allegheny's Eighth Ward Schools outlawed corporal punishment (1897) ; restored within year, Old Allegheny's jail-like truant school, in basement of Allegheny High School, 233, Pp Papists, known or suspected, required by Virginia Assembly to take oath of allegiance to British government; after oath, under surveillance, 62; those who refused oath surrendered all weapons except for personal use in ten days, or faced fine and jail, 63 Parker, Edwin Milton, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 24 Parker, James, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, rev., Parks in Old Allegheny, first common grazing ground, center of many fights over encroachment, first, Theological Seminary, then First Presbyterian Church of Allegheny;Commons, a dumping ground, to be turned into public parks;removal of dead from Presbyterian burial grounds (1861) ; removal of penitentiary in West Park (1886), later site for a Phipps Conservatory;sections of parts for right-of-way for Fort Wayne Railroad and freight yards, for widening old streets or making new ones, Penhollow, Charles, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Penhollow, Henry, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 25 Pennsylvania Genealogies, by WilliamHenry Egle, rev., 394 Pennsylvania German, definition of; arrived in Philadelphia from Rotterdam, or from English ports; first group settled German- town (1683), Pennsylvania Germans, refused settlement on Ohio Company land in western Pennsylvania; objected to Parish taxes of Episcopal Church, 325; Joseph Smith's Old Redstone (1854), quoted, 325; mid 1700's near present Frederick, Hagerstown; then Cumberland ;then along present U.S. Highway 40, 333 Pennsylvania Germans and Scotch-Irish, relations between, fromextracts from George Dallas Albert's History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (1882), 330, 331, 332 Pennsylvania German Pioneers, best source book for records, 321 Pennsylvania Place Names, by A. Howry Espenshade, rev., 393 The Pennsylvania Sampler, narrated and compiled by Paul B. Beers, rev., Pershing, General John J., descendant of Friedrich Pfoersching (1768), eastern Pennsylvania; General born in Missouri, 328 Pessen, Edward, Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics, rev., Peterson, Merrill D., Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biographv, rev., The Pioneer Merchant in Mid-America, by Lewis E. Atherton, rev. in "Book Notes," Pittsburgh, early descriptions of, from Warner's History of Allegheny County, 14

15 15 Indian depredations, Pittsburgh, garrison town, slow to mature until after war of 1812;as Gateway to the West, it finally became Workshop of World, 50 Pittsburgh, Industrial importance increased by War of 1812, 212 Pittsburgh ( ), Age of Industry; Exhibit 27 contains reproduction of early drawings and a painting of working class dwellings on side of a hill, with Victorian mansion on summit, 51; Pittsburgh renaissance of twentieth century and efforts for urban redevelopment, 51;population, area, and production figures ( ), 52 Pittsburgh, private and church schools persisted after public schools established, 337; unemployment in panic of 1907, 359; government contracts brought prosperity, World War I, 359; living conditions in early 20th century unhealthy; little attention to health, housing, and safety, 360 The Pittsburgh Directory for 1815, lists only two cabinet makers with labeled examples : Charles Rosenbaum, pianofortes inhepplewhite style; Samuel Davis, clock maker, 252 "The Pittsburgh Rifles and the Battle of Drainsville," by Alexander Murdoch, Historical Society Notes and Documents, Pittsburgh Subsistence Committee ( ), history and accomplishments of, 260, 260», 86 The Pittsburgh Survey, urged reform of early 20th century living conditions in Pittsburgh ignored, 360;contrast in homes of wealthy, 360 Point ofempire:conflict at the Forks of the Ohio, by Charles Morse Stotz, rev., Pollicino, Frank, "The Exploration of a Legend," Pollock, Oliver, biographical sketch, 273w, 113 Post-Revolution migration of Pennsylvania Germans led to founding congregation at Water Street, known as Trinity Lutheran; some settlers went on to Fort Loudon, then to Fort Littleton, then to Frankstown; a larger group up Susquehanna and Juniata, 333 Power Saw, introduced in the United States c. 1830; ended great era of furniture making, 249 Powers, Patrick J., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 25 Pratt, Edwin P., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 25 Prevost, Lt Augustine, son-in-law of George Croghan, 143 Printing in early Pittsburgh ; the Pittsburgh Gazette (1786) by John Scull, first west of mountains ; six others by 1800; waterpowered paper millat Brownsville (1797), and Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry printed in Pittsburgh (1793) ; Zadok Cramer by 1815 had published 70 books and pamphlets, 53; Exhibit 28B memorabilia of early printing, The Private City. Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth, by Sam Bass Warner, Jr., rev., Private schools, list of, advertised in Allegheny Daily Enterprise (1855), contribution to both sides, as combatants and non-combatants, 57 Quarles, Benjamin, author of The Negro in Quigley, George B., biographical sketch in the American Revolution, Negroes made "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," R "Ravensburg," land belonging to Benjamin Kuykendall now Clairton, Pa., 144 Reed, H. Clay, rev. of Christie and Dumond's George Bourne and The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable, Reed, Homer J., grandson of William Forsythe, reminiscences, Reichert, Gabriel Adam, Lutheran missionary pastor in Western Pennsylvania; his manuscript diaries, in German, available at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; included short biographies of persons he buried, 331 Reinsberg, Mark, "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard. A Roll Call," 1-32; list of ac- knowledgments for material used in writing "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard/' Guard," 8 Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr, 2 vols., issued by Da Capo Press, rev., Republicans and Labor, , by Robert H. Zeiger, rev., Resignation of James O'Hara as Quartermaster General (1796) ;Contractor of Supplies for Western Army and Forts ( ) and other responsibilities, 367 "Revolutionary War Letters of the Reverend William Van Home," by WilliamE. Van Home, Rhode Island campaign and withdrawal of French fleet described, ; British punishment of Bedford,

16 16 Rice, Otis K., The Allegheny Frontier; West Virginia Beginnings, , rev., Riedesel, General Baron, strange prisoner-ofwar relationship of his convention troops, with natives, 125, 127; convention troops defined, 125; false rumor about Riedesel, 127; troops mentioned, 132 Rimmel, WilliamM., "The Allegheny Story," Robinson, Edward, early graduate from Carnegie Tech's Division of Applied Psychology became chairman of Yale's Department of Psychology, 363 Roebling, John Augustus, built first cable bridge in world at Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh (1845) with wire from Townsend Company, 257 Roebling, Washington, son of J. A., cared for by Mrs. Rees C. Townsend after mother's death, 257 Roman Catholicism, early history of in Pittsburgh, 382n, 188; 383», 189; Messrs. Maguire, Bodkin, Heilbron, Lonergan, visited Pittsburgh occasionally, 382n, 188; the Rev. William F. X. O'Brien, first resident pastor, 382n, 188; St. Patrick's first church, 383n, 189 Roney, the Rev. M., first principal of Westminster College (1849), thirty-nine male, twenty-eight female students, 339; Roney resigned (1853), succeeded by the Rev. John Newell, 340 Root, Martha, lauded Hamerschlag's making of useful citizens in article, 354 Rose, John Peter, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 26 Rosenbaum, Charles, early Pittsburgh cabinet maker, specialty, fine pianofortes, 252 Rosenberger, Homer T., "Migrations of the Pennsylvania Germans to Western Pennsylvania," Part I, Ross, Samuel, failed physical examination;in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 26 Rumormongers to be tried, Van Home letter, Runyan, Henry H., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 26 ss St. Mary's Catholic Church, Allegheny, "Know Nothing" windows, 234 St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Martinsburg, Blair County (1785) ; Lutheran Church, Newry, Blair County (1785) ; Lutheran Church of Marklesburg, Huntingdon County (1794), 334 St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, first in Pittsburgh, 383n, 189 Salt for Pittsburgh, James O'Hara responsible for, 368 Sample, Houston (or Hugh) W., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 26 The Si. Davis Clock, reference to Dr. R. W. McDermott, 210 Schanz, John, failed to pass physical examination; in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 26 Schenley, Mrs. Mary E., presented Blockhouse to DAR (1894), 37 Scott, Dr. Walter Dill,director of Carnegie Tech's Division of Applied Psychology (1916), 362 Scully, Arthur Murtland, life, 157 Scully, Charles Bonaventure, life, Scully, Cornelius D., mayor of Pittsburgh (October 1936-January 1946), 174; newspaper comments, Scully, Denis Sullivan, life, ; greatgrandfather of Margaret Townsend Scully, 175; w. Ann O'Hara, 175; description of home, Scully, Denis and Ann O'Hara, life, 153 Scully, Denis and John, inireland, ; Uncle Daniel Sullivan, 172; arrival in Pittsburgh (1805), 173; John Sullivan Scully, purchase of "Hungry Hill," life, Scully, Donald Cadwalader, life, 159 Scully, Henry Rees, life, ; facsimile of missionary contribution, 155 Scully, James O'Hara, life, Scully, Janet Maclean, life, Scully, John D., life, Scully, Margaret Townsend, ancestry, 153; early life, ;pictures, opp ; civic responsibilities, 162//.; publishes White Rose of Essex, , with facsimile page, 164; award from Genealogical Institute, 167; trip to Ireland, ; illness and death, 169; Historical Society Resolution, ; additions to collections by or through Margaret Scully; poem written about her, 171;notes on the O'Hara home life in Pittsburgh for her unfinished novel, Scully, Mary Morrow Murtland, life, 156 Scully, Rees Townsend, life, Seibel, George, interest in fostering poetry in Pittsburgh, Sharp, Myron B., rev. of Espenshade's Pennsylvania Place Names, 393; rev. of Egle's Pennsylvania Genealogies, 394 Shawl, William Henry Harrison, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Sheraton, Thomas, furniture guidebook, The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing- Book, fashionable in America, 251 Ships, ocean-going, built in Pittsburgh vicinity between 1792 and 1810, twenty built to take surplus produce to east coast and foreign markets; Monongahela Farmer,

17 shown in process of construction (1801) at Elizabeth; rafts, flatboats, keelboats, also built; ship industry pictured in Exhibit 28C, 53 Shipyard on Monongahela owned by James O'Hara, 371;ocean-going, 371;history of the General Butler and Betsey, Siege of Fort Pitt during Pontiac's War, and lifting of siege by Colonel Bouquet and troops after Bushy Run shown in Exhibit 24A, Fort Pitt Museum, Silvernail (or Silvernale), Calvin M., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 27 Singleton, Theodore, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 27 Sipe, Attorney C. Hale, letter to Margaret Scully about O'Hara and Denny omissions inbook, 163 Smith, W. Wayne, rev. of Pessen's Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics, Smoke complaints by Old Allegheny housewives, resulted in an ordinance for compulsory cleaning of residential chimneys ; then one for taller smoke stacks, 228; Mayor Wyman (1896) supported an ordinance controlling smoke from engine stacks and chimneys in city, and called for smoke consumers for plants, 228; a proposed substitute ordinance prohibiting use of soft coal, ignored, 229 Soldiers, Pennsylvania German, with Braddock and Forbes expeditions; later settled along and south of Forbes Road, from Ligonier to Fort Pitt, 328 "Some Notes on Early Local Schools," by John Newell Crombie, "Some Pioneers and Some of Their Descendants," by Margaret Pearson Bothwell, Starrett, Agnes L., rev. of Beers' The Penn- sylvania Sampler, Starrett, C. V., rev. of Alberts' The Golden Voyage The Life and Times of William Bingham, 69-71; "A Tribute Given at the Meeting of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, December 3, 1969/' Dr. Stanton Belfour, 83 Stauffer, Abraham, Fayette Township, first minister and bishop of Fayette County Mennonites, 333 Stewart, James, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Stone, Roy (Bvt. Brig. Gen.), biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Stone, Roy, leader of Warren County's Raftsmen's Guard of lumbermen, Civil War, 2 Stotz, Charles Morse, "The Fort Pitt Museum. The Story of Western Pennsylvania Before 1800 As Portrayed in the Museum Exhibits," Part II(Conclusion), 33-56; assembled material for Exhibit 13C, Fort Pitt Museum, from Papers of Colonel Bouquet and Crown collection of American Maps, British Museum, 34; Point of Empire: Conflict at the Forks of the Ohio, rev., Strickland, Orine T., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 29 Struble, David C, G, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 29 Studies in American Jewish History, by Jacob Rader Marcus, rev., Sullivan, John, in command of unsuccessful attempt to recapture Rhode Island, 115; at odds with D'Estaing, 115//.; after Rhode Island campaign, commanded army to attack Six Nations, 123 Summer Closing, 1970, HSWP, announcement of, 316 Swivel gun, useful to army on move, 43 T Tarbell, Joseph W., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 29 Tench Coxe: A Study in American Economic Development, by Harold Hutcheson, rev., Thaw, John, letter about Pittsburgh furniture (1804), 253 Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography, by Merrill D. Peterson, rev., Thompson, Anna, advocated Allegheny riverfront park first in 1897, in First Ward Public School essay, 228 Thomson, O. R. Howard, and Rauch, William H., History of the "Bucktails," mentioned in Reinsberg*s "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 7 Townsend, George Jackson, eldest son of Rees Townsend, 258; designed entrance to Allegheny Cemetery on Butler Street, 259 Townsend, Jesse, head of committee of discussion at Redstone Meeting in Brownsville; m. Edith Cadwalader, Townsend, Margaret Jackson (Mrs. James O'Hara Scully), sketch, 259 Townsend, Mary Jackson, wife of Rees C. Townsend, life, 258 Townsend, Rees Cadwalader, biographical sketch, 257 Townsend, Sabina M. (Mrs. Alfred J. Rankin), life, Townsend family, maternal ancestors of Henry R. Scully family;english Quakers ; Richard Townsend, Jr., on Penn's Welcome, persuaded nephew Joseph to emigrate (1712) ; Joseph's son Benjamin to 17

18 18 Brownsville, Pennsylvania ; Pittsburgh branch begun by Benjamin's son Robert, founder of Townsend Company, Pittsburgh, and Fallston, Beaver County, 255; "Margaret Townsend Scully's Trunk," Part III, Townsends, The, Part IIIof "Margaret Townsend Scully's Trunk," Townsend Company, history of, ; company brought up to date as affiliate of Textron, Inc., 256n, 80; founded by Robert Townsend at Pittsburgh and Fallston, Beaver County, 255; first specialties wire and rivets, 255;Rees C. Townsend, joined uncle's company, 257; association with J. A. Roebling in first suspension bridge, 257 Trask, Augustus A., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 29 Trask, Walter Vincent, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Trunk, Margaret Townsend Scully's history and contents of, ; now arranged in eight boxes, listed, 152; used by Agnes Sligh Turnbull in The King's Orchard, 152 Turnbull, Agnes Sligh, used Margaret Townsend Scully material in writing The King's Orchard, 152 Turnvereins, Old Allegheny, oldest, Allegheny (1850) ; Turnverein campaign for compulsory exercise in schools culminated in bill vetoed by Governor Pattison (1890) ; successful in having German taught in Allegheny High School; Allegheny businessmen sent sons to Lutheran and German Catholic schools to learn German for business ; end of Turnvereins and temporary end of teaching of German, World War I,240 Twentieth Century Club, organized in 1894, offspring of Kate Cassatt McKnight's "The Monday Class," of Old Allegheny, 239 V Vanarsdale, William, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 30 Vandalism, Old Allegheny, described; much ascribed to bigotry of "Know-Nothings" ; St. Mary's Catholic Church windowless, with ventilation semi-circles near roof; Humboldt Monument painted yellow to show hatred of Germans, World War I, Van Home, Eliza, diary of journey to Ohio, published in HSWP magazine 1939, "Journey to the Promised Land, Journal of Elizabeth Van Home, 1807," by Elizabeth Collette, ed., 138 Van Home, Thomas Budd, son of the Rev. William Van Home, Lieutenant Colonel, War of 1812; letters to General John Stites Gano published (1920) by the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio (now Cincinnati Historical Society), 138 Van Home, The Reverend William, Baptist minister; graduate of College of Rhode Island (now Brown University), also awarded honorary M.A.;chaplain of Bucks County militia, July 8, 1776; his commander a parishioner, Col. Joseph Hart, 105; and Col. Jpseph Hart, among eight to write Constitution and form state government for Pennsylvania; Van Home, Benjamin Franklin, David Rittenhouse, prepared final draft of preamble to Constitution; first government of Pennsylvania (Sep. 28, 1776), ; chaplain to army at Valley Forge, 106 Van Home, Chaplain William, discharge from Revolutionary Army (May 1780), 136; original of discharge on display at Rutherford B. Hayes Memorial Library, Fremont, Ohio, 136; accepted pastorate at Scotch Plains, New Jersey; became interested in Ohio country through parishioners, 137; power of attorney to two men for land purchase (1797), at present Lebanon, Ohio, 138; failing health, resigned pastorate, took family to Ohio, 138; died en route, buried in Pittsburgh, 138; family continued to Ohio, 138 Van Home, William E., "Revolutionary War Letters of the Reverend William Van Home," Van Home Hart correspondence, recent discovery in Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, Pa., ; first letter fromcamp Valley Forge (March 4, 1778), 108; correspondence ends (Oct. 27, 1779), 136 Victory (1758) shown inexhibit 13B in Fort Pitt Museum, fall of Louisbourg; of Fort Frontenac; Forbes occupied ruins of Fort Pitt, 34 Virginia Assembly, authorized raising Negro troops against French in Ohio River country (1754) ;servants, indentured or bought, exempt from service; freed Negroes and mulattoes recruited, as unarmed menials, 59; (1755) authorized enlistment of blacks in militia; drummers, trumpeters, pioneers, or other labor;not to be armed, 60; (1756) increased Col. Washington's regiment to 1,500 men; voluntary enlistments; if none, unmarried men conscripted ;could find substitute, or pay fine, 61; (1757) broadened provisions of militia act; added Indians to enlistment potential;imported servants exempted; slaves still ruled out, made enlistment ages eighteen to sixty; Negroes still primary source of labor for militia, 62

19 19 Virginia militia, emergency and limited use of blacks;arming them might train for insurrection; a form of private property re- ww Walker, James B., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 30 Wallace, William, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 30 Walthour, Christopher ( ), of Walthour or Waldhower Fort; became owner of Croghan Hall and over 506 acres of Croghan land, 142 Walthour clan, many descendants in Westmoreland County; Christ C. Walthour, Greensburg, Pa., attorney, 143 Warner, Sam Bass, Jr., The Private City. Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth, rev., Washington, Colonel George, given regiment of militia by Lt. Gov. Dinwiddie to protect Virginia's frontier; headquarters, Winchester, 60; used Negroes as laborers (1755), freeing white militiamen to bear arms; now few blacks used as body servants, 60; increased use of Negro labor to build forts across Virginia frontier, 61 Washington County cabinet makers, made fine Chippendale, mostly large heavy, often with restrained carving or heavy banding, 253 Washington's grist mill at Perryopolis (1744-5) first water-power mill with burr millstones west of mountains, 52 Wayne, General Anthony, forever ended Indian menace ;troops trained at Fort Lafayette, Pittsburgh, and Legionville, near modern Ambridge; defeated Indians at Battle of Fallen Timbers near Sandusky (1794) ; Fort Lafayette, or Fort Fayette, aided in War of 1812, and held British prisoners after Perry's victory; sold in 1815 ; views of these actions and a U.S. howitzer form Exhibit 24D, 49-50; victory at Stony Point, 127 Weaver, Harry T., biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Weber, Henry, family traced, 324 Weber, the Rev. Johann Wilhelm, pioneer German Reformed minister in Westmoreland County, served four congregations, preached as far as Pittsburgh, 331;his baptismal register, in translation, available at Lutheran Theological Seminary, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 331 Weiser, Conrad (1748), Indian agent for Penn family, travelled to Ohio River;home inberks County ( ), 324 West, Franklin, "Passed over";in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 31 Western migration, routes used for, Western Pennsylvania cabinet makers, inno- quiring legislation, compensation, 58 "Virginia's Use of Blacks in the French and Indian War," by Larry G. Bowman, yations :unusual leg, top, and extra scallop- ing of apron, 253 Western Pennsylvania furniture, littlepublicized because unsigned, 251; followed furniture styles of east, principally Philadelphia, 252; early cabinet makers complained of furniture imported from Philadelphia, 252; styles lagged behind the east 10 or 15 years, 252; noted for structural integrity and lasting qualities, 253; extravagant use of wood; favorites, walnut and cherry, 253;not much mahogany, 253; secondary woods, poplar, pine, chestnut; oak or beech occasionally ;often case alone of Western Pennsylvania chest weight more than chest withdrawers in east, 253 Westminster College (not connected with Westminster College, New Wilmington), founded by Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, then became private school with church affiliations, then private school; begun by Hugh Boyd and James Kelly, 338; controlled by Presbytery; students not limited to Reformed Presbyterian Church; immoral books excluded, ; location changed to Allegheny (1850) ; church at this site (1836), 339; prospectus, 340: tuition fees, 340; committee visits, ; texts studied, 341 Wetmore, M. (Martin?), rejected after physical examination ;in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 31 Whitaker, Joseph, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 31 White, Harry, father noted Pennsylvania judge, 243; after Princeton entered twoyear law apprenticeship in Indiana, 243; chairman of Republican Party of Indiana County (1856), 243; political career interrupted by Civil War (1861), 243; picture of White, opp. 246; White's home, "Croylands," pictured, opp. 247; career resumed in Pennsylvania Senate ( ), 247; sponsored Evidence Act (1869), 247; Civil War career:organized company of volunteers, commissioned Major of 67th Regiment, despite father's objections; active duty (1862) ;assigned to protect railroads near Annapolis, then to Shenandoah Valley; elected to Pennsylvania Senate, given leave by Lincoln to attend Harrisburg sessions, then rejoined regiment in Virginia before Lee's drive north (1863), 244; active in bringing Constitutional Convention to successful vote: helped rewrite Constitution (1874) ;elected to Congress (1876) ; worked for Hayes for Presidency; reelected to Congress (1878), 247; president judge of Indiana County (1884) ; almost

20 20 lost election (1894) through his opposition to liquor licenses; retracted stand; retired to private practice (1905) ; died (1920), 248 Whitmore, William H., The Elements of Heraldry, rev., 195 Wilderness Empire, A Narrative, by Allan W. Eckert, rev., Williams, Abraham C, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," 31 Wolf, George D., Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, : A Study of Frontier Ethnography, rev., in "Book Notes," Woman's School of Design of Pittsburgh, 156 Wood, Sylvester, biographical sketch in "Descent of the Raftsmen's Guard," Y "Young O'Hara," Section Iof Margaret Scully's novel; summary of James O'Hara's life, ; editor's plan for organizing Margaret Scully's finished chapters, sketches, and notes, 262, 268, 270; Chapters 1-3 of "Young O'Hara," Z vania's population west of mountains German (no documentation), 328; History Zabierek, Henry C, "Interests Transcended: of Old Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church The Early History of Carnegie Tech," 349- in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland 365 s County, Pennsylvania. Near Harrold's, Zeiger, Robert H., Republicans and Labor, gives lists of children baptized, with names , rev., of parents ( ), of communicants Zundel, William Arter, maintains that at beginning of Revolution one-half of Pennsyl- ( ), of confirmants ( ), 332

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