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Eugene L. Coon (November 15, 1928 – October 15, 1998) [4] was a long-time Sheriff of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (serving Pittsburgh and its immediate suburbs) and an influential figure in the local Democratic Party. [5]
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.Descended from the Pittsburgh Gazette, established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the paper formed under its present title in 1927 from the consolidation of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and The Pittsburgh ...
Anthony M. Grosso was born December 9, 1913. A native of Pittsburgh's Hill District, beginning in 1938, he was involved in running an illegal daily lottery in the area. [2] At its peak in the late 1960s, his business employed an estimated 5,000 people and grossed $30 million a year. [3] [4]
Upon his retirement in 1982, The Pittsburgh Press said that "A downtown traffic jam without Vic Cianca is a traffic jam with no redeeming qualities." [4] Following his death, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described him as a "Pittsburgh icon" with "affectionate yinzer spirit" on par with Fred Rogers and Myron Cope. [5]
He played college football at the University of Pittsburgh, having previously attended Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He died of heart failure on April 4, 2016. [ 4 ]
Defunct newspapers published in Pittsburgh (19 P) Pages in category "Newspapers published in Pittsburgh" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Eleanor Schano was born and raised in Green Tree, near Pittsburgh, the daughter of Joseph J. Schano and Eleanor Daley Schano. [1] She graduated from Dormont High School in 1950, and from Duquesne University in 1954. [2]
May Beegle died in 1943, aged 61 years (according to her death certificate; the New York Times and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obituaries gave her age as 56). [ 15 ] [ 17 ] Her brother Thomas P. Beegle continued her concert series until his death in 1946, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] and then his son Bill Beegle ran the May Beegle Concerts series, through 1954 ...