Winebiddle Street
| Winebiddle Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhoods | Bloomfield, Garfield |
| Origin of name | Conrad Winebiddle |
Winebiddle Street is named for John Conrad Winebiddle (1741–1795, often called simply Conrad Winebiddle), an early landowner in the East Liberty Valley.[1][2][3][4]:112–113[5][6]
Winebiddle was born in Bergzabern, Germany, on March 11, 1741.[4]:112–113,243–244[7] After the deaths of his parents, he emigrated to America. He came with a considerable amount of gold, and established a tannery on the banks of the Allegheny River in present-day Lawrenceville (about where the Allegheny Arsenal was later located). His business was very successful, and he later supplied the Continental Army with beef, leather, and shoes.[1][4]:112–113,243–244[5]
Winebiddle's house was on the Allegheny River, close to the tannery.[2][3]:34[6] In 1761 he married Elizabeth Taub.[1][4]:112–113[7][8] She was the daughter of Casper Taub (or Toupe), who in 1762 received a grant of 303 acres from Colonel Henry Bouquet, the commander of Fort Pitt.[9][8] This land corresponded approximately to the modern neighborhood of Garfield and a part of East Liberty.[9][4]:243–244[10] Casper Taub bequeathed this land to his daughter Elizabeth, and Winebiddle invested his business profits in additional land, so that together their holdings totaled 553 acres in what is now Garfield, Friendship, and parts of Bloomfield and East Liberty.[9][4]:112–113,243–244[5][10] Their estate was named Rumbiddle,[10] likely a pun on Winebiddle.
(Some sources give Elizabeth's maiden name as Weitzel.[1][4]:112–113 After Winebiddle's death, Elizabeth married a William Cunningham,[4]:243–244 so she is sometimes called Elizabeth Cunningham.)
Winebiddle died on September 11, 1795, and was buried in the churchyard of the First German United Evangelical Protestant Church, which he had helped to establish. He and his wife were later reburied in Allegheny Cemetery.[4]:112–113 The Winebiddles had five children, of whom four lived to inherit parts of the estate: Barbara,[a] Kitty, John Conrad Jr., and Philip.[1][4]:112–113,243–244 Barbara Winebiddle married Jacob Negley, Kitty Winebiddle married John Roup, and Philip Winebiddle married Susanna Roup, tying together these three families; see Negley Avenue and Roup Avenue.[1][4]:112–113,243–244[8] John Conrad Winebiddle, Jr., first married Olive Newton, and later married Harriet Fitch Ingalls, who had a daughter named Eveline by her first husband. Eveline married Dr. Augustus H. Gross, and they adopted a daughter named Mathilda; see Evaline Street, Gross Street, and Mathilda Street.[11][12][13][4]:243–244
Notes
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Ruth Ayers. "Baum homestead in East End to be razed, name to live on." Pittsburgh Press, Nov. 2, 1932, p. 2. Newspapers.com 146719033. [view source] ayers-baum
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Margaret Carlin. "How our streets got their names." Pittsburgh Press, Feb. 6, 1966, Pittsburgh's Family Magazine, p. 10. Newspapers.com 149098376. [view source] carlin
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 John W. Jordan, ed. A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People: Genealogical memoirs of the leading families of Pittsburg and vicinity, vol. 3. Lewis Publishing Company, 1908. HathiTrust 008651569; Historic Pittsburgh 03awn7797m; Internet Archive centuryandhalfof03bouc. [view source] pittsburg-and-her-people-3
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Bob Regan. The Names of Pittsburgh: How the city, neighborhoods, streets, parks and more got their names, p. 74. The Local History Company, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9770429-7-5. [view source] regan
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Street names sketch history of city: Tribute to many pioneers dimmed by time." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 26, 1936, anniversary section IV, p. 16. Newspapers.com 88921069. [view source] street-names
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Janet Cercone Scullion. Bloomfield, p. 14. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S. C., 2009, ISBN 978-0-7385-6577-4. LCCN 2009920833. [view source] scullion
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Franklin Toker. Pittsburgh: An urban portrait, p. 207. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Penna., 1986, ISBN 0-271-00415-0. LCCN 85-71786. [view source] toker
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Georgina N. Negley. East Liberty Presbyterian Church: With historical setting and a narrative of the centennial celebration, April 12–20, 1919, pp. 13–14. Murdoch, Kerr & Co. Press, Pittsburgh, 1919. Internet Archive eastlibertypresb00negl. [view source] negley-elpc
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs. Warrantee Atlas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: Constructed from the records on file in the Department of Internal Affairs, and surveys made on the ground during 1909, 1910, 1912 under the direction of Henry Houck. 1914. https://historicpittsburgh.org/collection/warrantee-atlas-allegheny-county-pennsylvania. [view source] warrantee
- ↑ "Death of Dr. A. H. Gross: Brief sketch of his professional and political life." Daily Post (Pittsburgh), July 23, 1878, [p. 4]. Newspapers.com 88202786. Reprinted in the Weekly Post (Pittsburgh), July 27, 1878, p. 5 (Newspapers.com 88203426). [view source] gross-obit-daily
- ↑ "Obituary: Dr. Augustus H. Gross." Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, July 23, 1878, [p. 4]. Newspapers.com 85462080. [view source] gross-obit-gazette
- ↑ Adelaide Mellier Nevin. The Social Mirror: A character sketch of the women of Pittsburg and vicinity during the first century of the county's existence: Society of to-day, p. 79. T. W. Nevin, Pittsburgh, 1888. Google Books qkwbAAAAYAAJ; Internet Archive socialmirrorchar01nevi. [view source] nevin
