A Genealogical and Biographical History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
A Genealogical and Biographical History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Author: Thomas Cushing

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 0806306866

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The sketches in this book, numbering approximately 2,250 and naming a total of 50,000 related persons, generally treat subjects who were born in the early nineteenth century, with reference to immediate forebears of the late eighteenth century. The sketches typically mention the date and place of birth and marriage of the principal subject, the place of birth of his parents and often grandparents, sometimes the name of the first ancestor in America, and details of religion, education, military service, occupation, home, and residence.

Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830
Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830

Author: Peter E. Gilmore

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0822986248

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Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770–1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in the early years of America. Despite fractious relations among competing sects, many immigrants shared a vision of a renewed Ireland in which their versions of Presbyterianism could flourish free from the domination of landlords and established church. In the process, they created the institutional foundations for western Pennsylvanian Presbyterian churches. Rural Presbyterian Irish church elders emphasized community and ethnoreligious group solidarity in supervising congregants’ morality. Improved transportation and the greater reach of the market eliminated near-subsistence local economies and hastened the demise of religious traditions brought from Ireland. Gilmore contends that ritual and daily religious practice, as understood and carried out by migrant generations, were abandoned or altered by American-born generations in the context of major economic change.