The Pittsburgh Gazette

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The Pittsburgh Gazette

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Hugh Henry Brackenridge
…1781, where he helped start The Pittsburgh Gazette, the first newspaper in what was then the Far West. After he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1786, he obtained funds to found the academy that became the University of Pittsburgh. As mediator in 1794 during the Whiskey Rebellion, he…
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…1781, where he helped start The Pittsburgh Gazette, the first newspaper in what was then the Far West. After he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1786, he obtained funds to found the academy that became the University of Pittsburgh. As mediator in 1794 during the Whiskey Rebellion, he…
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