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John Kasich – Ohio Congressman 1983–2001, Governor 2011–2019 Philander C. Knox – Senator 1901–1904, 1917–1921, United States Attorney General 1901–1904, Sec. of State 1909–1913 Robert McKnight – Congressman 1859–1863
Louis Astorino, architect, PNC Park, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Paul Blasingame, United States Air Force (USAF) officer and engineer who played an important role in the development of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile; Matt Brezina, co-founder of Xobni
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Pitsburg was founded under the name of "Arnettsville" in the 19th century, but it languished: an author writing in 1880 described it as "liv[ing] only in name and story."
The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a historic winter storm that struck the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions of the United States as well as Southern Ontario in Canada from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978.
professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau [1] Cleveland Abbe Jr. 1895–1899 professor of geography and biology at Western Maryland College [1] Truman Abbe: 1903 surgeon [1] Philip Abelson: 1953 physicist [2] Henry Adams: 1878 historian and Pulitzer Prize recipient [3] [4] [1] Henry Carter Adams: 1889
The McKees Rocks Industrial Railroad (reporting mark MRIE), formerly the Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad (PAM), was a switching railroad that served industrial complexes in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.
Up until the post Civil War era, most of this valley was farm land and small surface or near-surface mining areas. Starting with the industrial boom that the Civil War demanded, the area rich in coal (a key industrial component for steel and iron making and thus the linchpin for most major industrial concerns) grew rapidly along the rivers of the region.