Sarah Street
From Pittsburgh Streets
| Sarah Street | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | South Side Flats |
| Origin of name | Sarah Mahon Ormsby Phillips |
Sarah Street is named for Sarah Mahon Ormsby Phillips (1803–1885), daughter of Oliver Ormsby (1767–1832) and granddaughter of John Ormsby (1720–1805).[1][2][3] She married Asher Phillips (1790–1843), a major in the U. S. Army, and they lived in a house called "The Orchard" on a tract of land between South 21st and South 24th Streets.[4]:32[5][6][7][8]
Other South Side streets are named after Oliver Ormsby's other daughters: Sidney Street, Jane Street, Mary Street, and Josephine Street. See Ormsby Street for more about the Ormsby family.
Sarah Street was not named for a daughter of John Ormsby, as some sources imply;[9][10][11] John had no daughter named Sarah.[4]:19[7]
References
- ↑ "Tales of old times: When the Southside was a small village amid the woodlands: Memoirs of early residents: The neglected grave of the founder of Birmingham borough: The first church, school and mill." Pittsburg Dispatch, Mar. 1, 1890, second part, p. 9. Newspapers.com 76218651. [view source] tales
- ↑ Flashbacks. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 21, 1933, p. 8. Newspapers.com 90310579. [view source] flashbacks
- ↑ Ruth Ayers. "Do you know this place—?: Ormsby estate on South Side now cluttered with tenements: Old mansion now only part of overcrowded district: Horses once raced where children romp and play now." Pittsburgh Press, Aug. 16, 1934, p. 21. Newspapers.com 146695755. [view source] ayers-do-you-know
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Oliver Ormsby Page. A Short Account of the Family of Ormsby of Pittsburgh. Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, N. Y., 1892. Internet Archive ashortaccountfa00pagegoog, shortaccountoffa00page; https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Short_Account_of_the_Family_of_Ormsby_of_Pittsburgh. [view source] ormsby
- ↑ Annie Clark Miller. "Old houses and estates in Pittsburgh." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, vol. 9, no. 3, July 1926, pp. 129–168. https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/view/1411. [view source] old-houses
- ↑ Leland D. Baldwin. Pittsburgh: The story of a city, p. 246. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 1937. HathiTrust 001263101. [view source] baldwin
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Walter T. Kamprad. "John Ormsby, Pittsburgh's original citizen." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, vol. 23, no. 4, Dec. 1940, pp. 203–222. https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/view/2173. [view source] kamprad
- ↑ Stuart P. Boehmig. Pittsburgh's South Side, p. 8. Images of America. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S. C., 2006, ISBN 978-0-7385-3939-3. LCCN 2005932359. [view source] boehmig
- ↑ Franklin Toker. Pittsburgh: An urban portrait, p. 132. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Penna., 1986, ISBN 0-271-00415-0. LCCN 85-71786. [view source] toker
- ↑ Franklin Toker. Pittsburgh: A new portrait, p. 160. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8229-4371-6. LCCN 2009022903. [view source] toker-new
- ↑ Chris Potter. "My husband recently got a job on the South Side, and we noticed there are a lot of streets named after women. How come?" You Had to Ask. Pittsburgh City Paper, Dec. 29, 2005. https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/Content?oid=1337601. [view source] south-side-women
