Chapter I: Preface

The purpose of these pages is to describe the early social life of Pittsburgh. The civilization of Pittsburgh was crude and vigorous, withal prescient of future culture and refinement.

The place sprang into prominence after the conclusion of the French and Indian War, and upon the improvement of the military roads laid out over the Alleghany Mountains during that struggle. Pittsburgh was located on the main highway leading to the Mississippi Valley, and was the principal stopping place in the journey from the East to the Louisiana country. The story of its early social existence, interwoven as it is with contemporaneous national events, is of more than local interest.

C. W. D.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA,
November, 1915.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.--THE FORMATIVE PERIOD 1

II.--A NEW COUNTY AND A NEW BOROUGH 22

III.--THE MELTING POT 38

IV.--LIFE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 62

V.--THE SEAT OF POWER 90

VI.--PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AFFAIRS 114

VII.--A DUEL AND OTHER MATTERS 138

VIII.--ZADOK CRAMER 161

IX.--THE BROADENING OF CULTURE 184

INDEX 209

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