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Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 5Virginia was also anxious for the Ohio Indian trade, and in 1748 there was formed by London merchants and a few leading men in Virginia, including Thomas Lee the Presi dent of the Council of the Colony, and two brothers of George Washington, the Ohio Company, to trade with the Indians and settle on their lands, Governor Dinwiddie becoming a partner at a later date. They obtained a gr...

Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 1For a number of years the Historical Society of West ern Pennsylvania realized that it would be advantageous to conduct a magazine, but did not feel able to undertake the work. It is now prepared to answer the call, and the result is its entry into the list of publishers. It is hoped that the magazine will be a valuable instrument in the preservation, discussion, and dissemination of...

Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 3Of course the suit was cheap in price, it was also cheap in material and make up. The clothiers had a sliding scale of prices, and in the clothing business there was wide lati tude.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books...

Excerpt from Synopsis of the Proceedings of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Late Old Residents' Association: During the First Five YearsThe following pages are but an abstract of the minutes of the Society's meetings under its several forms, and as such are respect fully submitted to the members of the Society, our citizens in gen eral and our sister societies throughout the country, in the hope that they will look with encoura...

Excerpt from Synopsis of the Proceedings of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Late Old Residents' Association: During the First Five Years Few sections of our country open a more pleasing and varied field of study and research to the historian than Western Pennsylvania. Commencing with the mound-builders of pre-historic times, and passing down through the Lanni Lenape and other aboriginal tribes to the day when the last remnant ...

Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 3 A few months ago Pittsburgh mourned the death of its great philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. Today it is called upon to honor the memory of a man who was at one time associated with Mr. Carnegie, and like his former partner, was a great public benefactor. Henry Clay Frick was born in Western Pennsylvania, and was of the blood of those Germans who with the English Quakers organized ...

Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 5Virginia was also anxious for the Ohio Indian trade, and in 1748 there was formed by London merchants and a few leading men in Virginia, including Thomas Lee the Presi dent of the Council of the Colony, and two brothers of George Washington, the Ohio Company, to trade with the Indians and settle on their lands, Governor Dinwiddie becoming a partner at a later date. They obtained a gr...

Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Vol. 1 It is true, the society entertains views somewhat different from those held by the editor of The Olden Time. It does not believe that the society could be a substitute for a periodical like The Olden Time, nor that this magazine could take the place of the society, but holds that the one must be the complement of the other. The society must supply the capital and the energy necessa...