Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 4 Masterful and impressive figures were the industrial magnates of old Pittsburgh, and as, through the gathering mists of years, their commanding forms rise before our retrospective vision, none looms larger or more majestic than that of the late Wil liam Wade, for many years a member of the firm of Mackintosh, Hemphill Com pany, one of the oldest iron manufacturing houses in the city. Mr. Wade, as a capital ist, was inseparably identified with Pitts burgh during the long years of a useful and honorable life, and in his work as a philan thropist he was no less intimately associated with the city of his birth. 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.