Notes:Morewood Avenue
- Barton opposing opening of street: https://www.newspapers.com/image/85621487, https://www.newspapers.com/image/141317933
- Source:Berg: "Bernard Rafferty bought the lot in 1884 in two parts, one a small sliver from Josephine E. and Edmund Morewood Ferguson (1838-1904). Ferguson, who was born in New York, moved to Fayette County, PA, to manufacture coke. He resettled in Pittsburgh, where he and his brother became partners with Henry Clay Frick in his original coal-to-coke operation, manufacturing coke in Connellsville and selling it to the thriving steel businesses in Western PA. Ferguson, described in his 1904 obituary as a capitalist and a 'heavy buyer of real estate,' married Josephine Mackintosh of Pittsburgh and built a mansion across the street from the present-day Freehof Hall, naming the street Morewood for his family."
- Edmund Morewood Ferguson obituaries: https://www.newspapers.com/image/86365659, https://www.newspapers.com/image/86229697
Ben Venue Avenue
1886-05-20 (recorded): Source:Ben-venue-place-plan-1886: "Ben-Venue Ave."
1890-08-22 (recorded): Source:Ben-venue-place-plan-1890: "Ben Venue Ave."
1912-05-31: Source:Ordinance-1912-318: "Ben Venue avenue, from Millvale avenue to Enfield, Eighth ward, changed to Morewood avenue."
1914-03-10: Source:Ordinance-1914-77: "Morewood avenue, from Enfield to Center avenue, Eighth ward, be changed to Ben Venue avenue."
1914-03-24: Source:Municipal-record-1914, p. 164: "Also ¶ No. 575. Petition of property holders on Morewood avenue protesting against changing the name of Morewood avenue, between Enfield street and Center avenue, to 'Ben Venue street,' and asking for the repeal of the Ordinance changing the same. ¶ Which was read and referred to the Committee on Public Service and Surveys."
1914-04-09: Source:Ordinance-1914-110: "An ordinance changing the name of Ben Venue avenue, between Enfield street and Centre avenue, to 'Morewood avenue.'"
