Fritz Kreuter was fatally injured in a mine explosion around Smithton, Westmoreland. He was taken to McKeesport Hospital where he died. Would the hospital in 1901 file a Death Certificate or was it up to the family?

The McKeesport Heritage Center now has an email address for those of you interested in contacting them .They will soon have a website too. email is mckheritage@yahoo.com and FAX # is 678-7130 Donna

To Diane Thomas- -i lost your email address- I checked the Heritage Center for St marys German Cemetary Records--they do not have them. They could only suggest you contact St Martin De Porres Parish for the records-- Donna

Hi list I went to the McKesport Heritage Center today and looked up when the Vogue Terrace was distroyed. The Vogue Terrace was burned in the predawn hours of April 25,1963. The cause of the fire was believed to be a faulty furnace. And it was listed in the paper as being located in North Versailles. --Donna

PA-PITTSBURGH is a new ancestry list started with RootsWeb. It is a list devoted to the 'Burgh and surrounding areas, for all ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds. Surname queries are encouraged to connect others with ancestral interests and family searches in the area, along with historical discussions, and memory sharing of the 'Steel City.' To subscribe, send a blank email (turn off signature lines) with the word, subscribe, in the text area to: PA-PITTSBURGH-L-request@rootsweb.com . Sue* http://homepages.about.com/tomssue/mcalisterpainterbickhartfamily/ BALLES, ECKER, KELLAWAY, KELLOWAY, MCCALLISTER, and SKELLY list owner. ADOPTION, MYSTERY, STAY-AT-HOME MOMS, and WESTIE list owner.

I can add 1952-55 Dave Boyd aka Pharmasaurus Rx Greenville,SC Treasurer, House of Boyd Society, Inc. A Scottish Clan Society Listmanager, PAWASHIN-L Genealogy mailing list Lead, VP-Program, Palmetto Statesmen Barbershop Chorus Lead, The Upstate Four, Barbershop quartet daveboydjr@mindspring.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean" <sdas@chisel.toolcity.net> To: <PAMCKEESPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 12:09 PM Subject: [PAMCKEESPORT] Yough-a-Mons > I have the years: > 1948 > 1949 > 1950 > 1951 > 1952 > 1953 > 1963 > > My husband was Class of '49 and I was Class of '53 > > Shirley > > > ==== PAMCKEESPORT Mailing List ==== > PayPal > https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=GeoJenk%40aol.com > "Best of the Web" > - Forbes > "Using the service is actually safer than a check or money order." > - Wall Street Journal > "The beauty is that you can send money -- real money, not one of > those gimmicky Internet currencies -- to anyone with an email address." > - New York Times > "PayPal can play a major role in your life. You can use it to pay > for stuff at auction sites, settle dinner debts with friends or nudge > your cousin to repay that $50 he borrowed at the family reunion." > - Time > "This is truly one of the easiest services to use. Setting up an > e-mail account at Yahoo! takes longer!" > - Internet.com > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

I have the years: 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1963 My husband was Class of '49 and I was Class of '53 Shirley

Hi, Enjoy this sight about my old home town. My name is Marlyn Everett Easterly - a 1951 graduate of Mck Tech Hi. (hey Barbara Jo say hi to your mom Becky). I attended Fawcett grade school 1939-1947 1st grade '39-40 Marie Davis 2nd grade '40-41 Ruth Wilson 3rd grade '41-42 Elizabeth Dennen - loved to smack knuckles with a ruler. Ouch 4th grade '42-43 Lily Benson - tried to teach the class to dance - boys hated it. She also made Geography very interesting. 5th grade '43-44 Sara Rickard 6th grade '44-45 Lillian Susan 7th grade '45-46 Vera Wilson - everyone's favorite !!!!!! 8th grade '46-47 Helen Fiedler Principals: W.W. (Baldy) Dodds '39-42 Dr L. Travis '42-47 janitor: Conrad Ulm Professor of mopology- as he called himself was a friend to all the kids My teachers at George Washington: Doris Blid - English - very nice Marlin Ross - Latin - not Miss Personality Helen Potoff - Algebra - her belittling of students was irritating. Anna Morlock - Social Studies Lawrence DeSimone - band Favorite high school teachers were Ann Sigmund Camic for Biology and Dorothy Norton for Spanish. Best memories of high school are with the band and orchestra with Ed Garbett and L DeSimone I moved from the McKeesport area to central Pa. in 1962 when my husband started work with the state. We have two children and three grandchildren (ages 8 - 16). We are both retired now and love to travel. Our home is New Cumberland, Pa - about 10 miles from Harrisburg. My husband is a native East McKeesporter and we both still consider West Pa. as home. Look forward to even more info on Mck. Marlyn aka Mar

I attended St. Angela in White Oak and we had Mrs. Noon for home ec also. I remember one day when she left the room, a group of us crawled out the window to hide from her. Boy, did we get in trouble when we got back to St. Angela's!

Sharon --you may be able to find mariage records at the Pittsbugh Diocese ..Write : Synod Hall ,125 N Craig ST,Pgh,Pa, 15213. phone--412- 621-6217 .They charge $15 for 1st hr and $10 for each hr after that. They will release copies of records that are 100 yrs old. You can email them at archives@diapitt.org Donna

I am researching the following people in Duquesne. However, they were all married in McKeesport - church unknown - pastor Father Kovach. I suspect they had ties to McKeesport... Julius & Helen (Lovasz) Kvicsak Joseph & Elizabeth (Lovasz) Soltesz Steve & Anna (Kopcsanyi) Matisz The Matisz' lived on Viola Street and on the 200 block of South First Street around 1909-1911. The Kvicsak's lived on the 200 block of South First Street from about 1914 to about 1940's? (Helen died in the 20's, Julius remarried a Rose Kish?). Thanx, Sharon _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Hi. I know this isn't relevant to McKeesport, but since we're on the topic of teachers - does anyone know of a band director for Duquesne High School in the 1940's-1950's? His name was Gene Szilagy. I believe we have a family connection to his wife, so I'd love to get in touch with any living descendants of his (or his wife's). Thanx, Sharon _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Hello listers, I'm researching Birches and Zimmermans who lived in McKeesport and Glassport in the first half of the 1900's. Dee Cameron dcameron@elp.rr.com

Does anyone know who the "E.L Zimmerman" on this list was and what he or she taught? Thanks, Dee Cameron dcameron@elp.rr.com -----Original Message----- From: Catherine West <catrina000@home.com> To: PAMCKEESPORT-L@rootsweb.com <PAMCKEESPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, April 05, 2001 4:06 PM Subject: [PAMCKEESPORT] Teachers >When I moved into my current house I found a Yough-A-Mon for 1944. Some >of the names of the teachers listed are >Florence Spiegel, Betty Steel-Good, E.L. Zimmerman, Virginia Cartright, >Ella Winter, Hazel Hardey, Rosmer Bruce, Gertrude lindquist, Rose >Floro-Arone, Mary Louise MgGrann, LelandDeWoody, Elfreeda >Buhleier-Ahlquist,Julia Loya, Gene Lynch, Helen Jenkins, Doris >Henderson, Eleanor Tobin, Virginia Schully-White, Louise Exner, >Catherine Watson, Ruth Low, Hulda Ritchey, c Lillian Nelson, Jean >Baird-Coursin, Anna Nelson, Margaret Kerezi, Norman Gibson, Charles >Schaffer, Foster beatty, Dorotjhy Smedler, Lawrence Strong, Charles >McKenery, J Robert Izod, G R Acklin, Donald Ferguson, Harry Pry, August >Schad >There's plenty more, I'll send later >Cathy West > > >==== PAMCKEESPORT Mailing List ==== >Try the "All Things McKeesport Web Ring" >If your Web Site is about McKeesport or owned by a McKeesporter....Join!! http://www.geocities.com/geojenk/ >If your Web Site is Owned by a McKeesporter...Join!! > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >

Dear Jim and Fellow McKeesporters: Sorry it has taken so long to reply to your request. The brochure is rather fragile. I'm checking with our Photo Department here to see if they can scan it with out damage. In the mean time here is some information on the P&LE and the PeeMickey. The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie was formed to break the monopoly that the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads had over the cost of shipping. Pittsburgh was one of the competitive points "out of luck" a half century ago. (1870s) the then existing railroads, of which there were only two, and apparently under agreement not to engage in rebating at Pittsburgh, denied Pittsburgh shippers the rate concessions that were being granted their competitors located at more highly competitive pints, thereby placing the manufacturing interest located in the Pittsburgh district, in such an embarrassing position that they were, in may instances, prohibited from securing business in competition with manufacturers, located at more favored points. In 1874 a group of representative Pittsburgh business, fired with a spirit of determination, were prompted to appoint a committee for the purpose of giving consideration and study to a plan looking to building a branch line of railroad from Pittsburgh, South Side, to a connection with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in the h ope that, in this way, Pittsburgh would be able to secure the rats and service that other communities were enjoying, but lack of encouragement and support given the proposed scheme resulted in the abandonment of that project. The P&LE was given free trackage and large financial support by the Harmony Society. The Pittsburgh to Youngstown portion of the railroad was completed in 1879. P McK & Y RE. Following the completion of the line from Pittsburgh to Youngstown, in order to afford a similar outlet for the immense deposits of coal along the Youghiegeny and Monongahela rivers as well as the coke fields of the Connellsville region, the Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny Railway (Peemickey), extending east of Pittsburgh to Connellsville on the Youghiogheny river and Brownsville on the Monongahela river, was projected and built as a subsidiary of the P&LE. The line of the Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny serves most of the large steel mills located in the Mon Valley. On August 31, 1903, a new line of railroad know as the Monongahela Railway, extending from Brownsville, Pa., to Martin, Pa., was opened for business This railroad was owned in equal thirds by the P&LE, B&O and Pennsylvania RR. It was built for the express purpose of aiding in the development of the lower Connellsville coke region. Later, an extension into WV, through Morgantown to Fairmont, was built and opened for business July 1, 1915. On January 14, 1910 The P&LE entered into a friendly traffic agreement with the Western Maryland RR, at that time seeking a western outlet, under which the Western Maryland extended its line from Cumberland, MD. to a connection with the P&LE at Connellsville thereby creating an additional through line from Pittsburgh to Baltimore. This connection was completed on August 1, 1912. Highest Passenger Traffic 6,782,863 in 1920. It operated 71 trains daily running through passenger service from Morgantown, WV through McKeesport to Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto, Rochester, Albany, Boston, New York City, and resort destinations in Maine and Nova Scotia. (Wish we had that kind of service today.) They had the following Passenger Stations in our area as follows: Pittsburgh, Homestead, Braddock McKeesport, Greenock, Buena Vista, West Newton, Smithton, Whitsett Jc, Fuller, Dickerson Run, Broadford Jc., Connellsville. The line split in McKeesport - on the Mon there were stations - McKeesport (transfer point) Glassport, Elizabeth, Monongahela, Webster, Monessen, Belle Vernon, Fayette City, Brownsville, Point Marion, Morgantown and Fairmont. That is probably more than you ever wanted to know about the P&LE but somewhere in the "mess" I know I have more information. Marc In M. G. Stauffer

Hi list Noticed a J. Robert IZOD as a teacher in the 1944 year book. Does anyone on the list remember what he taught, or anything about him? He's part of the Izod family in PA that I've been working on. It would be really special to get to "know" him through the eyes of a student. Anything at all would be greatly appreciated. Joy in CT

Hi....Just subscribed to this list today and I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed all that I have read today and looking forward to the future. I wonder if anyone can answer this question for me. Is there anyway that I can replace 2 possessions that disappeared many years ago. The Yough-A- Mon for 1957, and also the class ring from 1957. It would be a dream come true. Thank you all for the wonderful memories and I'm looking forward to many more. Sandy Arizona

I had Mr. Wilson and feel about him as you did about you director..."the greatest". I still have the sheet music of "Wake Awake". We even made 2 LP's and the song is on it. Such wonderful times. Kathy

Greetings, I just updated the school pages. I am still catching up as I have saved the Email and am cutting & pasting. Excuse the sloppiness as I still have to organize the page. If anyone sees any mistakes, please let me know. Be as specific as possible cuz on this end it can be confusing after looking at them for a while. I think the project is coming along just dandy. In order to try & reduce the Email, you can start sending the changes & mistakes I've made to my personal E-Mail: GeoJenk@aol.com. Keep up the great work & dust off the Yough-A-Mons :)) George Listowner

1956--Tech High--from year book Dr Howard Mc Elroy--Principal Shelby Irwin-- vice-principal Teachers There are 126 listed --I`ll look thru the 3 books I have and see who was in all three years --56-57-58 and do one page at a time . Voc Arthur Horn - Principal Donna