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FIRST PART

CHAPTER I - FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TILL THE YEAR 1754		7 - 16
CHAPTER II - CONTEST FOR THE POSSESSION OF THE OHIO VALLEY		16 - 29
CHAPTER III - PERMANENT SETTLEMENTS BEGUN		29 - 40
	- Taking Possession of the Forks.  - A Visit to Braddck's Field  - Death of General Forbes  - The French on the Upper Allegheny  - Obstacles to Settlement  - Fort Pitt Built  - The Beginnings of Pittsburg  - The Indians Unite Under Pontiac  - The War that Followed  - Bouquet's Expedition  - Settlements Begun West of the Mountains  - Efforts to Remove the Settlers  - Treaty of Fort Stanwix  - First Sale of Land in Allegheny County  - Pittsurg  - Education and Religion  - Abandonment of Fort Pitt  - Virginia Takes Possession
CHAPTER IV. - THE BOUNDARY DISPUTE BETWEEN PENNSYLVANIA AND VIRGINIA		41 - 50
	- The Boundary Dispute Begins to Attract Attention  - Lord Dunmore's Rapacity  - Sub-Division of the Territory Made by Pennsylvania and Virgnia  - Dr. John Connolly at Pittsburg  - Attempt to Settle the Boundary Dispute  - Its Failure  - Dunmore and Connolly Retire from the Scene  - Settlement of the Boundary Question
CHAPTER V. - WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.		51 - 57
	- Extent of Settlements  - Revolution Foreshadowed  - Detroit a Source of Trouble to the Frontier  - Expedition up the Allegheny  - Lack of Supplies and Discontent  - General William Irvine in Command  - Aggressiveness of the Indians  - Surrender of Cornwallis  - Growth of Population  - Religion
CHAPTER VI. - THE ERECTION AND ORGANIZATION OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY.		57 - 69
	- State of Affairs at Fort Pitt  - Laying Out Pittsburg  - Last Purchase from the Indians  - Erection of Allegheny County  - Location of County Seat  - First Newspaper, Market, School  - Courts  - Formation Townships  - Boroughs  - Allegheny, Elizabeth, McKeesport  - Religion  - Conclusion

PART II

FROM THE YEAR 1790 TILL THE PRESENT TIME.      - By Judge J. W. F. White		69
	- Indian Wars - 72  - Whiskey Insurrection - 74  - Growth and Development - 75  - Churches and Schools - 82  - Court House and Jail - 90  - Fire of 1845 - 91  - War Record - 92
THE JUDICIARY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY.      - By J. W. F. White		94
	- The Hannastown Courts - 95  - Virginia Courts in Pittsburgh - 97  - Allegheny County Courts - 99 (contains some biographies)  - Associate Lay Judges - 108  - Associate Law Judges - 109  - District Court of Allegheny County - 110  - Associate Judges of the District Court  - 114  - United States District Court - 115  - Mayor's Court of Pittsburgh - 117
LIST OF JUDGES		118
ALLEGHENY COUNTY INDUSTRIES      - Compiled by David Lowry, Esq.		120
	- Area and Agricultural Products of Allegheny County - 120  - Population of Pittsburg. - 120  - Iron and Steel - 121  - Glass. - 123  - Miscellaneous - 124  - Coal and Coke - 127  - Boat Building - 128  - Railroad System of Pittsburg - 129  - Banks - 130
CHURCHES OF PITTSBURG AND ALLEGHENY		130
	- Baptist - 130  - Catholic - 130  - Congregationalist - 131  - Disciples - 131  - Episcopal - 131  - Evangelical Lutheran - 131  - Methodist Episcopal - 132  - African Methodist Episcopal - 132  - Methodist Protestant - 132  - Presbyterian - 132  - United Presbyterian - 132  - Reformed Presbyterian - 133  - Evangelical Association - 133  - Cumberland Presbyterian - 133  - Reformed Church of the U. S. - 133  - United Evangelical Protestant German - 133  - Miscellaneous - 133
ADDRESS of the CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE		135
RULES		137
COMMITTEES		137
STANDING SUB-COMMITTEES		138
SPECIAL COMMITTEES		140
	- On Police and Fireman's Parade
PROGRAM OF THE CELEBRATION
	FIRST DAY  - Parade of Police and Fire Departments  - Dedication of the New Court House  - Citizens' Centennial Mass Meeting
	SECOND DAY  - Grand Civic Parade
	THIRD DAY  - Grand Military Parade
A SKETCH of the CELEBRATION of the CENTENNIAL of ALLEGHENY COUNTY
	THE THREE DAYS' PROCEEDINGS.      By George N. McCain

PORTRAITS & VIEWS

Bouquet, Henry 32 Col. Bouquet's Redoubt, as Seen in 1764 39 The Old Redoubt, as it Appears To-Day  - from a Photograph by E. W. Histed 43 Pittsburgh and Allegheny, as Seen From Coal Hill, (Mount Washington) In 1849.  - From an Engraving in the Possession of Mr. Chas. E. Wolfendale, of Allegheny City 49 Old Pittsburgh Court House and Market, Taken Down 1852. 75

Old Western University, Corner Third Avenue and Cherry Alley, Destroyed in the Great Fire of 1845. 83 Allegheny County Court House.  Destroyed by Fire, May, 1882. 91 Old Town Hall, Allegheny City, Torn Down in 1863 100 Map 125 Court House 134