Category: History - American
Until all fear of Indian troubles had ceased, there was practically no social life in American pioneer communities. As long as marauding bands of Indians appeared on the outskirts of the settlements, the laws were but a loose net with large meshes, thrown out from the longer-s...
Until all fear of Indian troubles had ceased, there was practically no social life in American pioneer communities. As long as marauding bands of Indians appeared on the outskir...
2. CHAPTER I3. CHAPTER IIThe constantly rising tide of immigration required more territorial subdivisions in the western part of the State. Westmoreland County had been reduced in size on March 28, 1781...
4. CHAPTER II5. CHAPTER IIIThe population of Pittsburgh was composed of various nationalities; those speaking the English language predominated. In addition to the Germans and Swiss-Germans, there were Fr...
6. CHAPTER III7. CHAPTER IVThe _Pittsburgh Gazette_ was devoted to the interests of the Federal party, and Brackenridge and the other leading Republicans felt the need of a newspaper of their own. The res...
8. CHAPTER IV[127] REV. D. X. JUNKIN, D.D. “The Life and Labors of the Rev. John McMillan, D.D.,” _Centenary Memorial of the Planting and Growth of Presbyterianism in Western Pennsylvania an...
9. CHAPTER VThe year 1800 ushered in more than a new century in Pittsburgh. It heralded the beginning of another era. The decade beginning with that year will ever be memorable in the annal...
10. CHAPTER V11. CHAPTER VIThe news and literary center was between Front and Second streets. Here the two newspapers were published. John Scull, the owner of the _Pittsburgh Gazette_, lived at the northw...
12. CHAPTER VI13. CHAPTER VIIOn July 24, 1805, a third Richmond appeared in the Pittsburgh newspaper field in the person of Ephraim Pentland. He established a weekly newspaper called _The Commonwealth_, whi...
14. CHAPTER VII[234] WILLIAM HAMILTON. _Report of the Trial and Acquittal of Edward Shippen, Chief Justice, and Jasper Yeates and Thomas Smith, Assistant Justices of the Supreme Court of Penns...
15. CHAPTER VIIIInto this environment Zadok Cramer had come in the early spring of 1800. He was a young man of twenty-six, and was lured by the promise of fortune and perhaps fame. In the short...
16. CHAPTER VIII17. CHAPTER IXCramer’s business prospered. His was the only establishment in Pittsburgh where the sale of books was the predominant feature. He had long called it the “Pittsburgh Bookstore.”[...
18. CHAPTER IXBooks, in households, 14; sale of, 14, 15, 27; interest in, 27; most popular, 169–171; Cramer’s publications, 189 ff.; contemporaneous history, 190; of local interest, 195–196;...