Robert Liddell (Pittsburgh) Explained

Robert Liddell
Birth Date:1837
Birth Place:England
Death Date:December 2, 1893 (aged 55/56)
Office:31st Mayor of Pittsburgh
Term Start:1878
Term End:1881
Predecessor:William C. McCarthy
Successor:Robert W. Lyon

Robert Liddell (1837 – December 2, 1893) was Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1878 to 1881.

Life

Robert Liddell was born in 1837 in England. He pursued the craft of beer making. During his administration, the Bureau of Water placed the Brilliant Pumping Facility into service.

In 1878, Holy Ghost Fathers started a college on the Bluff which would become Duquesne University. City streets were electrified in 1879 and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone went into limited use in Pittsburgh.

The city expanded west and south, annexing Mount Washington, Temperanceville and Birmingham. When Mayor Liddell left office, he was employed as a liquor dealer.

Liddell died in 1893; and was buried at the Union Dale Cemetery.

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