Notes:Bedford Avenue
Brief biography of Nathaniel Bedford: Source:Miller-chronicles, p. 5.
Source:Fleming-physicians: "We do not name Bedford avenue in honor of Pittsburgh's first physician, that name came most probably from the County of Bedford, the name there from the English county, and in the same way we have Lancaster, York, Cumberland, etc. Bedford avenue originally began at Fulton street, now Fullerton, the part below was called Prospect street. We can think of Dr. Bedford when passing along Bedford avenue. The name is English and he was a native of England. . . . ¶ . . . ¶ . . . Dr. Bedford has some [local commemoration], but slight enough. The old school on Bingham street between South Ninth and Tenth streets is called in his honor, and the old Twenty-ninth Ward was the Bedford school district. The square around the South Side Market at Twelfth street, formerly Denman, was once known as Bedford square."
