Some Famous Residents of Allegheny City (The North Side)

Charles Avery Aided the escape of slaves from the South to Canada in the Underground Railroad.
Eben M. Byers - Steel manufacturer and sportsman
Willa Cather -Author
George W. G. Ferris - Inventor of the Ferris Wheel
Henry J. Heinz – Pickling and Condiment Manufacturer

Henry Kleber - Musician, Teacher, and Composer
Samuel Pierpont Langley - Astronomer
Father Suitbert Mollinger – Priest of Troy Hill
Mary Roberts Rinehart - Author
Charles Taze Russell – Founded Jehovah’s Witnesses in Pittsburgh
Gertrude Stein – Author
Mary Cassatt – Painter
Martha Graham – Dancer and Choeographer,