A Short History of Pittsburgh

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Brown (Recorder) 1903, W. B. Hays (Recorder; served about one week under that title) 1903-1906, W. B. Hays (Mayor again) 1906-1909, George W. Guthrie A movement to consolidate the cities of Pittsburgh and Alleghenytogether with some adjacent boroughs, was begun in 1853-54. It failedentirely that year, but in 1867 Lawrenceville, Peebles, Collins, Liberty, Pitt, and Oakland, all lying between the two rivers, wereannexed to Pittsburgh, and in 1872 there was a further annexation of adistrict embrac...ing twenty-seven square miles south of the MonongahelaRiver, while in 1906 Allegheny was also annexed; and, as there waslitigation to test the validity of the consolidation, the Supreme Courtof the United States on December 6, 1907, declared in favor of theconstitutionality of the act.
XIV The first national convention of the Republican party was held inPittsburgh on February 22 and 23, 1856. While this gathering was aninformal convention, it was made for the purpose of effecting a nationalorganization of the groups of Republicans which had grown up in theStates where slavery was prohibited.


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