ersity of Pittsburgh

Pettigrew, Samuel, Mayor, 51

Phipps Conservatory, 102

Phipps, Henry, 85, 102, 106

Pier, Arthur Stanwood, 118

Pinkerton, Robert A., 76

Pitcairn, Robert, 94

Pitt annexed to Pittsburgh, 52

Pitt, Fort, building of first fort, 30;
building of second fort, 31;
abandoned, 36;
mutiny at, 39;
General William Irvine put in command, 39;
first court held, 40

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 25, 29, 37

Pittsburgh, site selected for fort, 13, 14;
site claimed by Virginia, 14;
said to have been named by Washington, 14;
French attempt to make settlement, 16;
explored by Louis Celeron, 16;
Washington's first impressions of, 17;
first permanent white settlement, 20;
captured by Contrecoeur, 20;
named Fort Duquesne, 20;
captured from French by English, 29;
name changed to Pittsburgh, 29;
first Fort Pitt built, 30;
second Fort Pitt built, 31;
attacked by Indians under Simon Ecuyer, 35;
land ceded to Colonies by Indians,35;
land office opened, 35;
made county seat, 40;
first court held, 40;
ducking-stool erected, 40;
size of in 1786, 40;
mail route to Philadelphia established, 40;
new fort built and named Fort Lafayette, 42;
town laid out, 50;
incorporated as a borough, 50;
chartered as a city, 50;
new charter adopted in 1887, 50;
"Ripper" charter adopted, 50;
list of mayors, 51;
first Republican Convention, 53;
distinguished visitors, 58;
great fire, 58;
railroad riots, 59;
consolidation of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, 52;
present population, 79, 81;
tonnage compared with other cities, 82;
surrounded by rich coal and gas fields, 83;
imports in 1907, 83;
manufacture of iron begun, 83;
iron and steel statistics, 83, 84, 86;
value of various products, 84;
first glass works built, 84;
rank as a glass-producing center, 84;
as a banking center, 85;
tax valuation of property, 86;
public buildings, 103;
hospitals, 103;
charitable institutions, 103;
water supply, 105

Pittsburgh Academy, 41, 98, 102

Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, 49

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Canal, 81

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, 49

Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, 49

Pittsburgh Country Club, 90

Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, 49

Pittsburgh Harbor, 82

Pittsburgh Orchestra, 94, 106

Pittsburgh riots, 59

Pittsburgh, University of, 41, 98

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