Excerpt from Allegheny County's Hundred Years From 1788 to 1888, comprises a wonderful century in the development of the industrial arts, and the commercial faculties of the world. The century that has witnessed the birth of the steamboat, the locomotive, the telegraph, and its cog nate electrical appliances. The hundred years in Which man has demonstrated his power of self government; and a nation, that stands now the foremost of the world, has risen to the grandeur of a leader of the nations in all that points to a higher civilization, and a broader Christianity and the equality of man before law and his fellows. Allegheny County has, in that century, made a marked impress and contributed its full share in the development of the arts whereby men earn their bread, and attain wealth. First and foremost in many of the advances in commercial facilities it has been no laggard in those that opened the way to a broader civilization, and the elevation of nor has its voice been silent where political rights were to be maintained, or wrongs righted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.