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The July 23, 2000, edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said that Thomas Mellon Evans was "arguably one of the seminal figures of 20th-century business." [ 10 ] Evans' story was told by Diana B. Henriques in her book The White Sharks of Wall Street: Thomas Mellon Evans and the Original Corporate Raiders published by Scribner in 2000 ( ISBN ...
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in the Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The cemetery was opened in 1874 [1] and is located approximately six miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh at 321 Kittanning Pike (zip code 15215). Notables interred here include Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson. [2]
A Virginia family of four who dedicated their lives to figure skating and each other were among the victims who died in Wednesday's devastating plane crash near Reagan National Airport.. Business ...
The Alderwoods Group formed on January 2, 2002, after the Loewen Group, then the second largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America, emerged from bankruptcy. [2] In November 2006, Alderwoods was acquired by Service Corporation International in a US$1.2 billion deal reached in April of the same year. [3] [4]
Gustave Vincent Curcio was born in Bridgeport, CT on January 30, 1951. He legally changed his name to Gus Curcio in 1980. He is the youngest of three children born to Gustave Curcio a/k/a "Red Buff", an Italian immigrant, and Enrica Rita Lucifora, a Sicilian immigrant whose father started the first privately owned bank in Bridgeport.
William Goldwyn Nunn Jr. (September 30, 1924 – May 6, 2014) was an American sportswriter, newspaper editor and football scout for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL) and is a 2021 member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Stratford Hall is also the birthplace of Robert E. Lee (1807–1870), who was General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The Stratford Hall estate was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960, under the care of the National Park Service in the U.S. Department of the Interior. [3]
Macbeth-Evans first introduced tableware items during the late 1920s and expanded into complete dinnerware lines in 1930. [4] The most popular color used in tableware was pink, and the glass made was thinner than other companies of the time, thus more fragile. No candy jars, candle holders, cookie jars, or butter dishes were made by Macbeth-Evans.