Notes:Gallatin Street

1868-06: Source:Garrison-plan: Garrison Street.

1880-06-29: Source:Street-names-1880: "Garrison street, Eighteenth ward, to Gallatin."

1881-03-04: Source:Ordinance-1880-1881-33: "Galatin [sic] street, from Autumn street to Witherspoon street, formerly Garrison street, Eighteenth ward."

1895-03-30: Source:Ordinance-1894-1895-399: ". . . , Garrison [now Gallatin street], . . . ."

1917-03-04: Source:Fleming-patriots: "We come now to the consideration of another class of names commemorated in Pittsburgh—great statesmen, orators, public men, men of great minds, great acts and great fame. Under this head we may mention . . . , Gallatin, . . . ."

Mentions of Gallatin

1914-12-17: Source:Fleming-great-names: "He [James Ross] was chosen to succeed Albert Gallatin as United States senator from Pennsylvania and served an additional term, his time expiring in 1803."

1917-04-29: Source:Fleming-rare-gleanings: "Gallatin for Law and Order. ¶ This conference we know was a failure. Only one man in attendance on the part of the insurgents gained anything in reputation. This was Albert Gallatin. His firm stand for law and order resulted in his election to Congress in 1795 over Brackenridge and Gen. John Woods and was the beginning of Gallatin's subsequent fame."

1917-11-25: Source:Fleming-fulton-2: "The declaration of peace concluded December 24, 1814, at Ghent, in Flanders, was not known in the United States at the time of the battle of New Orleans and for some weeks afterward. We may note in this connection that Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin were among the five commissioners at this treaty on the part of the United States, and that their names were given to more than one boat on our Western rivers. ¶ . . . ¶ Deeply interested, he [Fulton] sent copies of his treatise to President Washington, the secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, and to the Governor of New York, with a letter to each setting forth the advantages of canals to the United States. Though favorably received and acknowledged, these recommendations and suggestions were not fruitful until 10 years later, when Fulton had returned to the United States and was engaged in his projects of steam navigation, when a correspondence ensued between Albert Gallatin, then secretary of the treasury, and Mr. Fulton, in which Fulton set forth his views with considerable heat and which the Secretary included in his annual report, and of course preserved them."

1922: Source:Fleming-history, pp. 151–152: "To follow further the topic of this chapter one may have recourse to Heckewelder and study his etymology as far as applicable to local geographic names. Some annotated extracts from his book, 'Names, etc.,' are:[2] ¶ [2] Names which the Lenni-Lenape gave to the rivers, streams and localities within the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, with their significations, prepared for the transactions of the Moravian Historical Society from a manuscript of John Heckewelder, by Wm. C. Reichel (1872), p. 38, et al. ¶ . . . ¶ 'MONONGAHELA—Corrupted from Menaungehilla, a word implying high banks or bluffs breaking off and falling down at places.' There are various spellings of this word; the form Monongalia used in a county name in West Virginia, and Mon-a-ga-hail vulgarly. Albert Gallatin tried to dissect the Delaware form Me-nan-ge-hilla, but could not find the primitive words."

1924-07-06: Source:Fleming-old-pike: "Albert Gallatin, originator of the plan for government built highways"