Mayor of Pittsburgh 1879-1881 Robert Liddell was the last of Pittsburgh’s mayors to hail from another country.  Born in 1837 at...

Jewelry Store Owner Founder of Busch Jewelry Company, Chairman of William J. Kappel Jewelry Company of Pittsburgh. William J. Kappel was...

Golf Champion Wallace “Wally” Kappel made his first hole in one  on the 17th hole of the Ben Avon Heights course of Shannopin Country...

Queen of the North Side Underworld The WWI era red light district of Pittsburgh's North Side was ruled by Nettie Gordon. In the 25 years...

Riverboat Captain, school board member, businessman, a founder of Mt. Union Cemetery (now Union Dale) 26 year old Hance M. Dunlap had...

Historian, author, lawyer, politician Charles W. Dahlinger was a prominent historian, lawyer and politician in Allegheny and Pittsburgh...

Manufacturers of jellies and preserves Scottish stonemason, Alexander Cruikshank, came to America in 1831, settling in Allegheny in...

Educator and early kindergarten and playground advocate Mary J. Cowley was so successful that today her life’s work seems almost...

Civil War Colonel, US Congressman, Pittsburg Press Publisher Thomas McKee Bayne was born in Allegheny City in 1836. At the outbreak of...

Member of the Constitutional Convention of 1837-38 and Sheriff of Allegheny County Andrew Bayne was born in Finley Township in 1794. ...

Renowned Stone Mason and Bridge Builder Colonel James Andrews was born on October 7, 1828 in the town of Dumfries, Scotland, the eldest...

First presiding officer of Westminster College Reverend George Carothers Vincent was born on a farm in Harrisville, Pennsylvania, in...

First female physician in Allegheny City Charity Jane Vincent was Allegheny City’s first female physician.  Upon earning her degree and...

Mayor of Allegheny 1858 Jacob Stuckrath was elected Mayor of Allegheny in 1858.  Many of Stuckrath’s supporters celebrated his victory by...

Mayor of Allegheny 1844-1845. Builder of the first rolling-mill in Allegheny Hezekiah Nixon was born in Scott Township in 1802.  His...

P.T. Barnum's Illinois Giant Boy David Navarro was born in 1861 to a well-off farming family in Rochelle, Illinois.  By the time he was 8...

A leader in the founding of Allegheny General Hospital Robert B. Mowry was born in Pittsburgh in 1818, a son of Philip Mowry, one of the...

Mayor of Allegheny 1878-1881 Thomas Megraw was born in Grange, county Down, Ireland in 1835. His parents immigrated to the United States...

President of James McClurg & Company, cracker bakers & confectioners (the factory is now the D.L. Clark Co. Bldg.) John McClurg came to...

Civil War Major, co-founder of the Union Veteran Legion Albert Buell Hay was born in Zelienople, Butler County, in 1844. His father,...