The story of Pittsburgh: Education

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623714

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Education

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 14

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Greater Pittsburgh's churches

Collection:: Economics Books

tional, 22; Pentecostal Church, 7; Unitarian, 4; Church of the Brethren, 4; Seventh Day Adventist, 3; Church of Christ, 3; New Jerusalem, 2; others not enumerated 154. The first formal religious services by white men were held in Pittsburgh in 1749 by Father Bonnecamps,a Roman Cath- olic chaplain attached to Captain Louis De Celoron’s expedi- tion. A few years later, when the French from Canada seized the fort at the Point, naming it Fort Duquesne, they had with them Father Deys Baron, a Roman Catholic priest of the Order of St. Francis. The French erected a chapel at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers which they dedicated “The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin of the Beautiful River.” In the archives at Montreal there is a regis- ter of the baptisms and deaths at Fort Duquesne. From the time the French evacuated the fort, the Roman Catholics in Pittsburgh had no resident pastor for a half century. On November 24, 1758, the English flag was hoisted at the Point by Colonel Armstrong and a few days later a Presby- terian minister, who was attached to the expeditionary forces, conducted the first Thanksgiving Day services west of the Allegheny Mountains. Presbyterians were in Pittsburgh as early as 1758. The Presbytery of Redstone was organized in 1781 at the Pigeon Creek meeting house, Washington County. Three years later the Rev. Joseph Smith was sent by the Redstone Presbytery to preach in Pittsburgh, he thus becoming the first local resident minister of this denomination. In 1784 the Presbytery of Pittsburgh was incorporated. The Penn heirs gave a site to this denomination for religious purposes at Sixth avenue and Wood street. The first Presbyterian Church, a log structure, was erected in 1785. This property has remained the site of the First Church of this denomina- tion in Pittsburgh.

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