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MCKEESPORT

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 251 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city of See also:Allegheny See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., at the confluence of the See also:Monongahela and Youghiogheny See also:rivers (both of which are navigable), 14 M. S.E. of See also:Pittsburg. Pop. (1890), 20,741; (1900), 34,227, of whom 9349 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 748 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 42,694. It is served by the See also:Baltimore & See also:Ohio, the Pittsburg & See also:Lake See also:Erie and the Pennsylvania See also:railways. The city has a See also:Carnegie library, a See also:general See also:hospital, and two business See also:schools. Bituminous See also:coal and natural See also:gas abound in the vicinity, and See also:iron, See also:steel, and See also:tin and terne See also:plate are extensively manufactured in the city, the tin-plate plant being one of the most important in the See also:United States. The See also:total value of the city's factory products was $36,058,447 in 1900 and $23,0J4,412 in 1905. The See also:municipality owns and operates its See also:water-See also:works. The first See also:white settler was See also:David McKee, who established a See also:ferry here in 1769. In 1795 his son See also:John laid out the See also:town, which was named in his See also:honour, but its growth was very slow until after the See also:discovery of coal in 183o. McKeesport was incorporated as a See also:borough in 1842 and chartered as a city in 189o.

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