The 3-Volume Set of Allegheny Valley books presents a history of the area, but moreso a history of the people and families who settled it, both in colonial times and in the time of writing (1913). These books delve into biographical and genealogical sketches of these people and families in relation to the growth of the region.

From the book's foreword:

“There are numerous voluminous histories of the State, making it unnecessary in this work to even outline its annals. What has been published, however, relates principally to civic life. The amplification necessary to complete the picture, old and nowaday, is what is supplied by these Genealogical and Personal Memoirs. In other words, while others have written of “the times,” the province of this work is to be a chronicle of the people who have made this magnificent region what it is."

3 vols., 1162p. (Lewis Hist. Pub. Co. ; 1913)

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