Smith, Percy F.

Memory's Milestones: Reminiscences of Seventy Years of a Busy Life in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh: Self Published, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, 10.25 x 7.25 inches, publisher's brown cloth gilt, very good, mild wear. 292 pp, lightly illustrated. Percy Frazer Smith was born in Pittsburgh in 1848, started as a newspaper reporter at sixteen, and ran his own printing and lithographing business from 1880 until 1913, when he was elected jury commissioner. He married Catherine Bryce in 1879, and they had one daughter, Elizabeth. He compiled Notable Men of Pittsburgh and Vicinity (1901) and wrote the memoir Memory’s Milestones: Reminiscences of Seventy Years of a Busy Life in Pittsburgh (1918). Very good. Item #h46688

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