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| | Baldwin Township History | Abbott-LaValle Family History |
 | | This township history is transcribed from History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Volume II, A. Warner & Co., Publishers, Chicago, Ill., 1899, Chapter V, pp. |
 | | Henry Baldwin, from whom the name is derived, was one of the most prominent of the early members of the Pittsburgh bar. |
 | | Of the other railroads in the township the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston was opened in 1872, the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghigheny was originally chartered July 3, 1876, as the Pittsburgh Southern railroad, and branch from Glenwood to Finleyville, sixteen miles long, was built in 1883. |
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