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Encyclopedia Britannica



WILKINSBURG

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 646 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WILKINSBURG , a
borough
  of Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania
 , U.S.A., immediately E. of Pittsburg, of which it is a residential suburb. Pop. (189o) 4662; (1900) 11,886, of whom 1336 were foreign-born and 275 were negroes; (19ro
census
 ) 18,924. Wilkinsburg is served by the
Pennsylvania
  railway and by interurban electric lines. It is a post-station of Pittsburg. In the
borough
  are a
Home
  for Aged Protestants (1882), the United Presbyterian
Home
  for the Aged (1879), and
Columbia
 
hospital
 
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(1908). Settled in 1798 and known first as McNairville and then as Rippeyville, the place was renamed about 1840 in honour of William Wilkins (17791865), a member of the United States Senate in 18311834, minister to
Russia
  in 18341835, a representative in Congress in 18431844, and secretary of war in President John Tyler's cabinet in 18441845. In 1887 Wilkinsburg was incorporated as a borough.


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