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Title: In old Pennsylvania towns
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth, 1845-1928
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Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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age (still standing, being the brick housewhere Mrs. Joseph S. Brown now lives) andthat of the Reverend Joseph Stockton, at thenortheast corner of what is now Arch Street,were, with the frame meeting-house of the FirstPresbyterian Church, about the only buildingsin the street at that time. It was extremelyrural in Allegheny then, and all three houseswere surrounded by extensive grounds; Mr.Pages having a fine garden in the rear. Mrs.Barlow, who had known Lafayette in France,was the daughter of Mr. Henry Preble, whosettled in France as an importing merchant,and was a niece of Commodore Preble. Her hus-band had been secretaiy of legation underhis uncle, Joel Barlow, minister to France dur-ing the administration of President Madison.Those invited by Mrs. Barlow to meet the dis-tinguished guest were Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Davis,Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Page, the ReverendJoseph Stockton and Mrs. Stockton, Miss Han-nah Davis and Mr. John Morrison. Mr. Pagesyoungest daughter, Martha Harding Page 200
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WESTWARD HO TO PITTSBURGH (afterwards Mrs. Charles Scott Brent of Ken-tucky) , then nine years old, contributed the fol-lowing charming reminiscence of the occasion:About a dozen of the neighboring children,dressed in white with pink sashes and wreathsof roses on our heads, received him at the gate.I remember a tall man stooping to kiss each oneof us on our foreheads; then he took the Madamby her hands and kissed her on each cheek.I remember a commotion, many people; it allcomes back to me now like a dream; seventyyears is a long time to look back. On this same day Lafayette was shownthrough the Pittsburgh Flint Glass Works.Levasseur, his secretary, in his published ac-count of the voyage, has the following to say inthis connection: After having devoted the dayof his arrival to public ceremonies, the generalwished to employ a part of the next day invisiting some of the ingenious establishmentswhich constitute the glory and prosperity of thatmanufacturing city, which, for the variety a

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