Source notes:Regan

Street	Page	Regan's claim	Regan's uncited source	True?	Comments
Bethoven	4	Beethoven		Probably true
Halket	4	Sir Peter Halkett		True
Aiken	55	Holder of a patent for a brick machine		False	Contradicts claim on p. 62
Dithridge	55	Holder of a patent for a bouquet holder		Mostly true	But not because of anything to do with the patent
Oliver	55	Holder of a patent for a band for baling cotton		Mostly true	But not because of anything to do with the patent
Wood	55	Holder of a patent for a brewer's cooler		False	Contradicts claim on pp. 58, 75
Fifth Avenue	55	[History of name changes]	Miller, p. 35	Mostly true
Grant Street	58	Major James Grant	Miller, p. 26	True
Smithfield Street	58	Devereux Smith	Miller, p. 29	True
Wood Street	58	George Woods	Maybe Miller, p. 28; Carlin	True	Contradicts claim on p. 55
Webster Avenue	59	Formerly named Coal Lane	Buvinger, p. 23	True
Wylie Avenue	59	Formerly named Coal Road	Buvinger, p. 23	False	Coal Road became part of Webster Avenue
McLain	59	Benjamin McLain		True
Maple	59	Thomas Maple		True	Renamed Millbridge Street in 1910
Lillian	59	Thomas Maple's granddaughter		Mostly true	Actually his daughter
Walter	59	Thomas Maple's grandson		Mostly true	Actually his son
All "ways"	59	City ordinance prohibits the use of "alley"		Partly true	Ordinance no. 402 (1914) changed all alleys to ways, but did not prohibit "alley" from being used in the future
Shiloh	60	Civil War battle		True
Merrimac	60	Civil War battle		Mostly true	Named for a ship
Kearsarge	60	Civil War battle		Plausible	Perhaps named for a ship
Palo Alto	60	Mexican War	Carlin	True	Contradicts claim on p. 65
Buena Vista	60	Mexican War	Carlin	True
Monterey	60	Mexican War	Carlin	True
Taylor [sic]	60	Mexican War	Carlin	True	Carlin also calls it "Taylor"
Esplanade	60	Mexican War	Carlin	False	No longer exists
Resaca	60	Mexican War	Carlin	True
Ruskin	60	Nineteenth-century British writer		True
Tennyson	60	Nineteenth-century British writer		True
Lytton	60	Nineteenth-century British writer		True
Thackeray	60	Nineteenth-century British writer		True
Hemingway	60	Literary theme		True
Fitzgerald	60	Literary theme		True
Ophelia	60	Shakespearean character		True
Cato	60	Shakespearean character		Plausible
Hamlet	60	Shakespearean character		True
Romeo	60	Shakespearean character		True
Juliet	60	Shakespearean character		False
Joe Hammer Square	60	Joe Hammer, originally Ellsinore [sic] Square after Ellsinore [sic] Castle		True
All streets in Oakwood	60	Originally named for U. S. presidents		Partly true
All streets in Westwood	60	Originally named for colleges		Partly true
Rhine	60	German origins of Spring Hill neighborhood		True
Goehring	60	German origins of Spring Hill neighborhood		Probably true	Named for C. L. Goehring, who probably had German heritage
Crucible Street	61	Local scientific and engineering paraphernalia	Warner, p. 228	Probably true
Saline Street	61	Local scientific and engineering paraphernalia	Warner, p. 228	Vaguely true
Theodolite Street [sic]	61	Local scientific and engineering paraphernalia	Warner, p. 228	Probably true
Furnace Way	61	Local scientific and engineering paraphernalia	Warner, p. 228	Probably true	Renamed Fowlkes Way in 1925
Collier Way [sic]	61	Local scientific and engineering paraphernalia	Warner, p. 228	False	Contradicts claim in next paragraph
Bessemer Way [sic]	61	Local scientific and engineering paraphernalia	Warner, p. 228	Plausible
Tripod Way	61	Local scientific and engineering paraphernalia	Warner, p. 228	Probably true
Addison	61	First judge of Allegheny County	Miller, p. 34	True
Bailey	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
Collier	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True	Contradicts claim in previous paragraph
Forward	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
Hampton	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
Lowrie	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
Magee	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
McCandless	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
McClure	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
Mellon	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
Roberts	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
Shaler	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
Slagle	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True	Has not existed since about 1900
Sterrett	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
Wilkins	61	Former judge	Miller, p. 34	True
Denny	61	Ebenezer Denny	Miller, p. 32	True
Darragh	61	John Darragh	Miller, p. 32	True
Snowden	61	John Snowden		False	No street in Pittsburgh is named Snowden. There once was a Snowden Alley, not named for John Snowden, that became 43rd ½ Street. Regan's index says Snowden Drive, which is not in Pittsburgh.
Murray	61	Magnus Murray	Miller, p. 32; Carlin	True
Sophie Masloff Way	61	Pittsburgh mayor, 1988–1994		True
Antarctic	62	Ocean		Doubtful
Arctic	62	Ocean		Doubtful
Atlantic	62	Ocean		True
Baltic	62	Ocean		Mostly true	Sea, not ocean
Pacific	62	Ocean		True
Sixth Street bridge	62	Once Saint Clair Street, for General Arthur Saint Clair	Miller, p. 27	True	Why "bridge"?
Ninth Street bridge	62	Once Hand Street, for General Edward Hand		True	Why "bridge"?
Aiken Avenue	62	David Aiken		True	Contradicts claim on p. 55
Allequippa Street	62	Queen of Delaware Indians		True
Amanda Avenue	62	Amanda Knox Mathews	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Anderson Street	62	Major William Anderson	Miller, p. 27	True
Arabella Street	62	Variety of grape grown in Knox vineyard	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Ampere	63	Noted historical person		Plausible	Probably named after the electrical unit
Bethoven	63	Beethhoven [sic]		Probably true
Bismark	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Bizet	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Casanova	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Cicero	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Darwin	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Dawes	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
DeSoto [sic]	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Dickens	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Emerson	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Faulkner	63	Noted historical person		Doubtful	Certainly not William Faulkner
Fitzgerald	63	Noted historical person		True
Garfield	63	Noted historical person		True
Goehring	63	Noted historical person		False
Hancock	63	Noted historical person		True
Heinz	63	Noted historical person		Mostly true	Named for the H. J. Heinz Company
Hemingway	63	Noted historical person		True
Herod [sic]	63	Noted historical person		Doubtful
Ibsen	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Isabella	63	Noted historical person		Doubtful
Kelvin	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Kennedy	63	Noted historical person		Doubtful	Certainly not John F. Kennedy
Kepler	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Kilmer	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Kipling	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Kosciusko	63	Noted historical person	Maybe Carlin	True
LaPlace	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Lafayette	63	Noted historical person	Maybe Carlin	True
Lincoln	63	Noted historical person		True
Lindberg	63	Noted historical person		Doubtful
Longfellow	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Milton	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Napoleon	63	Noted historical person	Maybe Carlin	Probably true
Nero	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Newton	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Nixon	63	Noted historical person		Doubtful	Certainly not Richard Nixon
O'Hara	63	Noted historical person		Questionable	Does James O'Hara qualify as a noted historical person?
Orwell	63	Noted historical person		False
Oswald	63	Noted historical person		Doubtful	Certainly not Lee Harvey Oswald
Poe	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Pressley	63	Noted historical person		Doubtful	Certainly not Elvis Presley
Reuben	63	Noted historical person		Doubtful	Too vague
Revere	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Ridgway	63	Noted historical person		False
Roosevelt	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Schubert	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Shakespeare	63	Noted historical person		Partly true	Named for the Shakespeare Hotel and Gardens
Saint Patrick	63	Noted historical person		True
Stevenson (index says Stevenson Place)	63	Noted historical person		False
Taft	63	Noted historical person		Probably true
Tennyson	63	Noted historical person		True
Thackeray	63	Noted historical person		True
Twain	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
VanBuren [sic]	63	Noted historical person		True
Wagner	63	Noted historical person		Plausible
Walcott	63	Noted historical person		Doubtful
Washington (index says Washington Boulevard)	63	Noted historical person		True
Westinghouse	63	Noted historical person		True
William Penn	63	Noted historical person		True
Bates Street	63	Tarleton Bates	Maybe Carlin	True
Baum Boulevard	63	William Penn Baum		True
Belgium	64	Country		Probably true	No longer exists
Canada	64	Country		Probably true	Modification of earlier name, Cana
China	64	Country		Probably true	No longer exists
Cuba	64	Country		False
Finland	64	Country		Probably true
Grenada	64	Country		Probably true
Haiti	64	Country		Probably true
Honduras	64	Country		Probably true
India	64	Country		Probably true	Modification of earlier name, Indiana
Ireland	64	Country	Maybe Carlin	Probably true	Named when all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom
Jamaica	64	Country		Probably true
Jordan	64	Country		False
Lebanon	64	Country		Partly true	Probably named for Lebanon Church
Mexico	64	Country	Maybe Carlin	Probably true
Panama	64	Country		True
Scotland	64	Country	Maybe Carlin	Probably true
Sweden	64	Country		Probably true	No longer exists
Bausman Street	64	Frederick Bausman	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Bayard Street	64	Stephen Bayard	Miller, p. 29	True
Bayard Road	64	Stephen Bayard
Bayard Place	64	Stephen Bayard
Beechwood Boulevard	64	Residence of W. N. Frew		True
Bedford Avenue	64	Dr. Nathaniel Bedford	Miller, p. 30; Carlin	True
Bellefield Avenue	64	Neville Craig's farm, Bellefield, named for his wife, Isabella	Carlin	Mostly true	Isabel was Craig's daughter, and the land was named Bellefield 25 years before Craig was born
Bigelow Boulevard	64	Originally Grant Boulevard, named for Edward Manning Bigelow		True
Amman	65	City		False
Amsterdam	65	City		Probably true
Antwerp	65	City		Probably true
Athens	65	City		Probably true
Atlanta	65	City		Plausible
Augusta	65	City		False
Belgrade	65	City		Probably true
Baltimore	65	City		Plausible
Boston	65	City		False
Cairo	65	City		Probably true
Calcutta	65	City		Probably true
Chicago	65	City		Probably true
Cleveland	65	City		False
Denver	65	City		Plausible
El Paso	65	City		Probably true
Fargo	65	City		Plausible
Gettysburg	65	City		Partly true	Named for the battle, not the town
Hartford	65	City		Plausible
Hollywood	65	City		Plausible
Los Angeles	65	City		Probably true
Melbourne	65	City		Probably true
Milwaukee	65	City		Probably true
Norfolk	65	City		Plausible
Ottawa	65	City		Doubtful
Palm Beach	65	City		Probably true
Palo Alto	65	City		False	Contradicts claim on p. 60
Pasadena	65	City		Probably true
Peoria	65	City		Plausible
Perth	65	City		Plausible
Phoenix	65	City		Doubtful
Quebec	65	City		Plausible	More likely named for the province
Raleigh	65	City		Plausible
Roanoke	65	City		Plausible
Sacramento	65	City		Probably true
Saratoga	65	City		Partly true	Probably named for the Battles of Saratoga
Spokane	65	City		Plausible
Tacoma	65	City		Probably true
Wheeling	65	City		Mostly true	Wheeling Branch of B&O Railroad
Wichita	65	City		True
Boquet [sic] Street	65	Colonel Henry Bouquet	Miller, p. 25-26	True
Boulevard of the Allies	65	Monongahela Boulevard renamed in 1922 to honor Allies of First World War		Mostly true	Never actually named Monongahela Boulevard
Boundary Street	65	Boundary between Pitt Township and Oakland	Deasy	Partly true	Boundary between Pitt and Peebles Townships (Oakland was in Pitt Township)
Brackenridge Street	65	Hugh H. Brackenridge	Miller, pp. 30–32	True
Alumni	66	College-related name		True	Not an informative claim
Bucknell	66	College-related name		Plausible
Campus	66	College-related name		True	Not an informative claim
College	66	College-related name		Tautological
Columbia	66	College-related name		Plausible
Cornell	66	College-related name		True
Diploma	66	College-related name		True	Not an informative claim
Harvard (index says Harvard Street)	66	College-related name		Probably true
Oxford	66	College-related name		True
Purdue	66	College-related name		True
Radcliffe	66	College-related name		Plausible
Stanford	66	College-related name		True
Vassar	66	College-related name		Probably true
Villanova	66	College-related name		Plausible
Yale	66	College-related name		True
Braddock Avenue	66	General Edward Braddock	Miller, p. 24	True
Butler Street	66	General Richard Butler		True
Charles Street	66	Charles Knox	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Chatham Street	66	William Pitt, Earl of Chatham	Miller, p. 26	True
Craig Street	66	Major Isaac Craig	Miller, p. 28	True
Dallas Avenue	66	Mathilda Dallas		Plausible
Darlington Road	66	Harry Darlington
Darragh Street	67	John Darragh		True
Denniston Avenue [sic]	67	Samuel Denniston		False
Denny Street	67	Ebenezer Denny		True
Devilliers Street	67	Coulon de Devilliers	Maybe Carlin	True	Misspelled Louis Coulon de Villiers
Dinwiddie Street	67	Robert Dinwiddie	Maybe Miller, p. 26; Carlin	True
Apollo	68	Astronomy-related name		Doubtful
Asteroid	68	Astronomy-related name	Maybe Carlin	True	Not an informative claim
Azimuth	68	Astronomy-related name		True	Not an informative claim
Comet	68	Astronomy-related name		Probably true
Cosmos	68	Astronomy-related name		True	Not an informative claim
Eclipse	68	Astronomy-related name		True	Not an informative claim
Lunar	68	Astronomy-related name		Probably true
Mars	68	Astronomy-related name		Plausible
Moon	68	Astronomy-related name		Probably true
Neptune	68	Astronomy-related name		False
Orion	68	Astronomy-related name		Plausible
Planet	68	Astronomy-related name		Probably true
Saturn	68	Astronomy-related name		Plausible
Sirius	68	Astronomy-related name	Maybe Carlin	True
Sky	68	Astronomy-related name		True	Not an informative claim
Solar	68	Astronomy-related name		Probably true
Sun	68	Astronomy-related name		True	Not an informative claim
Sunrise	68	Astronomy-related name		True	Not an informative claim
Sunset	68	Astronomy-related name		True	Not an informative claim
Telescope	68	Astronomy-related name		Plausible
Vega	68	Astronomy-related name		Probably true
Venus	68	Astronomy-related name		Plausible
Zenith	68	Astronomy-related name		Plausible
Zodiac	68	Astronomy-related name	Maybe Carlin	Plausible	More astrology than astronomy
Ellsworth Avenue	68	Originally White's Lane, name changed in memory of General Ellsworth, who died the day the street was opened		Partly true	Elmer E. Ellsworth was a colonel; no confirmation of "White's Lane" or the coincidence in dates
Ellsworth Place	68	General Ellsworth		Partly true	Named for its location off Ellsworth Avenue
Ellsworth Terrace	68	General Ellsworth		Partly true	Named for its location off Ellsworth Avenue
Fisk Street	68	Alba Fisk
Forbes Avenue	68	General John Forbes	Carlin	True
Forward Avenue	68	Walter Forward		True
Foster Street	68	William and Stephen Foster		True
Frankstown Road [sic]	68	Frank's Town	Carlin	True
Frazier Street	69	John Frazier		True
Georgia Avenue	69	Native state of Mary Morgan Knox	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Grant Street	69	Major James Grant		True
Grape Street	69	Extensive vineyards of Knox farm	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Grimes Avenue	69	James F. Grimes	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Halket Street	69	Sir Peter Halkett	Miller, p. 25	True
Halket Place	69	Sir Peter Halkett		Partly true	Named for its location alongside Halket Street
Hazlett Street	69	Theodore L. Hazlett		False
Highland Avenue	69	Robert Hiland, surveyor	Maybe Miller, p. 33; Carlin	Mostly true	Surveyor's name was James Hiland
Joncaire Street	69	Phillip Thomas Joncaire		True	Misspelled Philippe-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire
Jucunda Street	69	Strawberry grown on Knox farm	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Jumonville Street	70	Coulon de Jumonville	Maybe Miller, p. 26; Carlin	True	Full name Joseph Coulon de Jumonville
Kirkpatrick Street	70	Major Abraham Kirkpatrick	Miller, p. 30	Probably true
Knox Avenue	70	Knox family	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Lacock Street	70	Abner Lacock	Miller, p. 34; Carlin	True
Larimer Avenue	70	William Larimer	Maybe Miller, p. 33	True	Strictly, William Larimer Jr.
Liberty Avenue	70	Northern Liberties, former name of Strip District		Plausible
Matthews [sic] Avenue	70	Matthews family of Philadelphia	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Matthews [sic] Way	70	Matthews family of Philadelphia	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
McArdle Roadway	70	Peter J. McArdle		True
Morse Way	70–72	Mrs. William Wilbur Knox, neé Josephine Morse	Goldstrom, p. 15	False	Wrong street: this is the origin of Morse Street in Knoxville, now Marland Street
Murray Avenue	72	Magnus Murray	Miller, p. 32; Carlin	True
Negley Run Boulevard	72	James Negley (1826–1901)		Doubtful	Negley Run is probably named for an earlier Negley
Neville Street	72	Colonel Preasley [sic] Neville	"the literature"	Doubtful
Neville Street	72	General John Neville	"the literature"	Probably true
O'Hara Street	72	Colonel James O'Hara	Miller, p. 32	True	Actually Quartermaster General
Penn Avenue	72	William Penn		Probably true
Philander Street	72	Philander Knox		True
Robinson Street	72	General William Robinson	Miller, p. 34; Carlin	False	Wrong street: this is the origin of General Robinson Street
Rochelle Street	72	Blackberry grown on Knox farm	Goldstrom, p. 15	Probably true	Maybe a grape
Ross Street	72	James Ross	Miller, pp. 29–30; Carlin	True
California	73	State		Probably true
Colorado	73	State		True
Connecticut	73	State		Probably true
Delaware	73	State		Plausible
Georgia	73	State		True
Indiana	73	State		True
Iowa	73	State		True
Kentucky	73	State		True
Louisiana	73	State		True
Massachusetts	73	State		True
Michigan	73	State		True
Minnesota	73	State		True
Missouri	73	State		Probably true
Montana	73	State		True
Nevada	73	State		True
New York	73	State		Plausible
New Hampshire [sic]	73	State		Partly true	Named Newhamshire for Thomas T. Newhams, corrupted by association with New Hampshire
Ohio	73	State		False
Oklahoma	73	State		True
Oregon	73	State		True
Pennsylvania	73	State		True
Rhode Island	73	State		True
Vermont	73	State		True
Virginia	73	State		True
Wyoming	73	State		Doubtful
Sandusky Street	73	Indian name meaning "cool water"	Carlin	Probably true
Saw Mill Run Boulevard	73	Location of sawmill used to build Fort Pitt		True
Semple Street	73	Samuel Semple		True
Shady Avenue	73	Once a tree-lined country lane		True
Smallman Street	73	Captain Thomas Smallman	Miller, p. 27	True
Smithfield Street	73	Devereux Smith; originally called Smith's Field Street	Miller, p. 29	Mostly true	"Smith's Field Street" is somewhat doubtful
Stanton Avenue	73	Edwin M. Stanton		True
Stanwix Street	74	General John Stanwix	Miller, p. 26	True
Steuben Street	74	Baron von Steuben	Miller, p. 27; Carlin	True
Steve Seventy Street	74	State house representative, 1978–1988		True
Stockton Avenue	74	Reverend Joseph Stockton	Maybe Miller, p. 34; Carlin	True
Tannehill Street	74	General Adamson Tannehill	Miller, p. 29	Mostly true	Only reached the rank of captain; street no longer exists
Tustin Street	74	James Tustin		True
Vickroy Street	74	Thomas Vickroy	Miller, p. 28; Carlin	True
Ward Street	74	Ensign Edward Ward		True
Ward Street	74	Hugh J. Ward		False
Wilbur Street	74	Wilbur Matthews [sic]	Goldstrom, p. 15	True
Winebiddle Street	74	Conrad Winebiddle	Maybe Miller, p. 34; Carlin	True
Wissahickon Road	75	Wissahickon Creek and Valley in Philadelphia area		Mostly true	Directly named for Wissahickon Hollow in Riverview Park
Wood Street	75	George Woods	Maybe Miller, p. 28; Carlin	True	Contradicts claim on p. 55
Woolslayer Way	75	William Woolslayer	Miller, p. 33	True
Zara Street	75	Variety of grape grown on Knox farm	Goldstrom, p. 15	True