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  2. History of Pittsburgh - Wikipedia

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    The history of Pittsburgh began with centuries of Native American civilization in the modern Pittsburgh region, known as Jaödeogë’ in the Seneca language. [1] Eventually, European explorers encountered the strategic confluence where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio, which leads to the Mississippi River.

  3. Whitaker iron family - Wikipedia

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    Wheeling Steel merged with Pittsburgh Steel to form Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel in 1968. [16] Glass incidentally made Wheeling, West Virginia famous by placing a large red "Wheeling" label on the company's garbage pails, which were widely used. Joseph Whitaker Thompson (1861-1946) was a grandson of Joseph Whitaker II through his daughter Gertrude ...

  4. Martha Graham - Wikipedia

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    Graham was born in Allegheny City, later to become part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1894. Her father, George Graham, practiced as what in the Victorian era was known as an "alienist", a practitioner of an early form of psychiatry. [5] The Grahams were strict Presbyterians. Her father was a third-generation American of Irish descent.

  5. The Rolling Years - Wikipedia

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    The Rolling Years. The Rolling Years is the first novel by the American writer Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1888–1982) and it is set in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, just east of Pittsburgh. It is a family chronicle (1852–1910) of three generations of Scottish-American Presbyterians in rural Western Pennsylvania and their struggles to ...

  6. Third-generation silverware artist creates successful ... - AOL

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    Tina Dettman-Bielefeldt. September 14, 2024 at 9:28 AM. Misty Nagan of De Pere is a third generation silverware artist. As she moves into a new career, she is looking to sell her business ...

  7. Daniel Brodhead - Wikipedia

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    Brodhead was born in Marbletown, Province of New York, the son of Daniel Brodhead II and Hester (Wyngart) Brodhead. Brodhead's father moved his family to what is now East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1737. Life in the frontier settlement was difficult, as Native American bands, mostly Lenape and Susquehannock, resisted settlers' encroachment.

  8. 3GNY - Wikipedia

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    New York, New York. Members. 1,500+. Website. https://www.3gny.org. 3GNY (Third Generation New York) is a non-profit organization composed of grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. [1] The mission of the group is to "educate diverse communities about the perils of intolerance and to provide a supportive forum for the descendants of survivors."

  9. Edgar Thomson Steel Works - Wikipedia

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    The proposed upgrade included a sustainable endless casting and rolling facility at the Thomson Plant, and a co-generation facility at the Clairton Plant. The Mon Valley Works would have been the first facility in the United States to incorporate technology combining thin slab casting and hot rolled band production into one continuous process ...