PITTSBURGH

A SKETCH OF ITS EARLY
SOCIAL LIFE

BY
CHARLES W. DAHLINGER

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The  Knickerbocker  Press
1916

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The purpose of these pages is to describethe early social life of Pittsburgh. Thecivilization of Pittsburgh was crude andvigorous, withal prescient of future culture andrefinement.

The place sprang into prominence after theconclusion of the French and Indian War, andupon the improvement of the military roads laidout over the Alleghany Mountains during thatstruggle. Pittsburgh was located on the mainhighway leading to the Mississippi Valley, andwas the principal stopping place in the journeyfrom the East to the Louisiana country. Thestory of its early social existence, interwoven asit is with contemporaneous national events, is ofmore than local interest.

C. W. D.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
November, 1915.

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