Address delivered before the Philological Institute, on the Eighth of December, 1838, the Eleventh Anniversary
by Wm. B. M'Clure, Esq. [William B. McClure (1807-1861)]
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Pittsburgh: Printed by Alexander Jaynes, Third Street, 1839. 24 pages. Pamphlet; removed; without wrappers. Scattered foxing; Very Good.
Speech in praise of the art of oratory delivered at the Philological Institute in Pittsburgh by attorney William B. McClure (1807-1861). McClure read for the law in Pittsburgh and was admitted to the bar in 1829. He became the first judge elected in Allegheny County.
The Philological Institute met for a time on the campus of the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh). The Institute was the rival of the university's Tilghman Literary Society. "The University's buildings, along with most of its records and files, were destroyed in a widespread 1845 fire that wiped out 20 square blocks of the most valuable part of Pittsburgh." (Wikipedia) Scarce, OCLC recording four copies for this Alexander Jaynes printing; only one in Pennsylvania (Heinz Hist. Ctr.).
Ref. History of Allegheny County Pennsylvania (Chicago, 1889), p255. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pa.), June 20, 1920, p34.
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- Address delivered before the Philological Institute, on the Eighth of December, 1838, the Eleventh Anniversary
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- Wm. B. M'Clure, Esq. [William B. McClure (1807-1861)]
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