[PRCo] Re: PRC roster updates

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

William Flinn apparently was notorious
http://www.voicenet.com/~dietrich/SHJ/flinn.htm , you can find references to
him everywhere.  Christopher McGee was his crony in his dealings.

Was William McGee, mayor in 1917, descended from Chris?  Was he cut from the
same cloth?  

Is Derrick Brashear descended from John A> Brashear?  I worked at Burroughs
Corp. with a less famous John A. Brashear a few years age.  He claimed to be
descended from the famous John.

Bob

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Fred W. Schneider III [mailto:fschnei at supernet.com] 
Sent:	Friday, June 29, 2001 12:56 PM
To:	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject:	[PRCo] Re: PRC roster updates


1.  Flinn also owned the only quarry which had stone of the proper color
to match the bid specifications required for Pittsburgh streets.  Flinn
sold all of those yellowish blocks that PRC was forced to buy to pave
streets.

2.  I was born in Magee Woman's Hospital.  

Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, John Swindler wrote:
> 
> > By the way, Derrick, on 9 Feb. 1903 Andrew Carnegie "broke his silence
and
> > has declared himself in favor of the Flinn-Magee tract of 32 acres along
> > Woodlawn Avenue, adjoining Schenley Park" as the location for a proposed
> > technical school in Pittsburgh.  One of the members of the Plan and
Scope
> > Committee of the technical school was John A. Brashear, chancellor of
the
> > Western University. (yes, Derrick, I made a copy for you)
> 
> thanks
> 
> > So what does the preceding paragraph have to do with Pittsburgh
Railways???
> > Well, shame on any Pittsburgh Railways fans that don't recognize the
name
> > Flinn.  (must confess that I wouldn't have make the connection until
couple
> > weeks ago)  As a hint, during its construction, a certain tunnel on the
> > southside was referred to as the "Flinn tunnel".   (could have just been
a
> > distant relative)
> 
> Or the name McGee. Christopher Lyman McGee did after all create the
> hospital in honor of his mother which eventually claimed the Craft
> Avenue carbarn land...
> 
> -D