Addison Street
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| Addison Street | |
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| Neighborhoods | Middle Hill, Terrace Village |
| Origin of name | Alexander Addison |
Addison Street is named for Alexander Addison (1758–1807), lawyer of Washington County and representative at the Pennsylvania constitutional convention of 1790. In 1791, in the reorganized court system following the adoption of this constitution, Governor Thomas Mifflin (eponym of Mifflin Road) appointed him the first president judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, which at the time included Allegheny, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties. Prior to this, judges had been laymen, and Addison was therefore the first judge learned in the law to preside over Allegheny County. He was impeached and removed in 1803 and was succeeded by Samuel Roberts, eponym of Roberts Street.[1][2][3][4][5]
References
- ↑ History of Pittsburgh and Environs, vol. 2. American Historical Society, New York and Chicago, 1922. Google Books 3staAAAAYAAJ, TPUMAAAAYAAJ; HathiTrust 011262563; Internet Archive historypittsbur00yorkgoog, historypittsbur02socigoog. [view source] history-pgh-environs-2
- ↑ A. A. Lambing and J. W. F. White. Allegheny County: Its Early History and Subsequent Development, pp. 101–102, 119. Snowden & Peterson, Pittsburgh, 1888. Google Books 6bY-AAAAYAAJ; HathiTrust 008957728, 100693049; Historic Pittsburgh 00aee8946m; Internet Archive centennialhistor00lamb; LCCN 18008828. [view source] lambing
- ↑ Annie Clark Miller. Early Land Marks and Names of Old Pittsburgh: An Address Delivered Before the Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution at Carnegie Institute, Nov. 30, 1923, p. 34. Pittsburgh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, 1924. Historic Pittsburgh 00awn8211m; Internet Archive earlylandmarksna00mill. [view source] miller
- ↑ Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the City, Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks and More Got Their Names, p. 61. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
- ↑ Erasmus Wilson, ed. Standard History of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. H. R. Cornell & Co., Chicago, 1898. Google Books 1dcwAQAAMAAJ; Historic Pittsburgh 00hc03974m; Internet Archive standardhistoryo00wils. [view source] wilson-erasmus
