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HISTORY C) give the history of the University of Pittsburgh in a brief sketch like this is an impossible undertaking. Volumes could be written but it is our endeavor here to mention the principal facts, as they were. It is necessary that we carry ourselves back in imagination to the time when our nation was in its infancy. One hundred and twenty-five years ago there were but thirteen stars upon the flag of the United States. The thirteen states composed a loose confederacy confronted at every moment with danger of disruption. In 1786 the publication of the Pittsburgh Gazette, a weekly newspaper, had been begun and Hugh Henry Brackenridge began to contribute a series of spirited articles to its columns advocating, among other things, the establishment of a school. He was a man of power; was a graduate of Princeton in 1771. in the same class with James Madison, who became later the President-of the United States; and Philip Freneau, “the poet of the Revolution, with whom, before coming to Pittsburgh, lie had collaborated in literary efforts, l.ater he became a Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1786 Brackenridge went to Philadelphia to take his seat as a member of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth, and while there secured the enactment of a law incorporating the Pittsburgh Academy as a seat of learning. He also obtained a grant from the heirs of W illiam Penn of a piece of land at the corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Alley, as a site for the school, and a grant of five thousand acres of land in the northwestern part of the state to be used as an endowment. The fathers of the institution, whose names are written as the incorporators. were as follows: Rev. Samuel Barr; Rev. James Finley, a younger brother of President Finley, of Princeton; the Rev. James Powers; the Rev. Joseph Smith, all graduates of Princeton and pioneers in the cause of education, through whose labors subsequently the Academy at W ashington and the Academy at Canonsburg came into being. lx th perpetuated to-day in Washington and Jefferson College. James Bradford was a man of influence and ability, who assisted the Academy. His granddaughter was the wife of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America.
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