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Oliver Ormsby Page makes a correction in the statements of Joseph P. Bowden concerning Southside streets. "Carson street was named by Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, who was a surgeon in the British army and was later first physician in what is now Allegheny county. He married Jane Ormsby, daughter of Colonel John Ormsby, to whom the lands on the South side were granted by the Penn heirs. The streets of the South side named Jane, Sarah, Mary, Sidney and Josephine were named for the daughters of Oliver Ormsby, who was the son of Colonel John Ormsby, and was the first merchant in the west with trading stores from Erie and Niagara on the north to Cincinnati on the south. His daughter Sidney was my grandmother."

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