. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . ^,who came with General Forbes in 1758, and settled heresoon after. This house, built of logs, is still standing onWater Street, a short distance from Ferry Street, andwas the earliest house of substantial character built westof the Alleghenies, and possibly antedates Colonel Bou-quets redoubt. General Gibson was here as early as1763, but it is not known where he lived. The houseMr. Craig mentions as Gibsons, on the corner of SecondStreet and Chancery Lane, whilst the first built of brick,was not erected till about 1784. Gener
. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . ^,who came with General Forbes in 1758, and settled heresoon after. This house, built of logs, is still standing onWater Street, a short distance from Ferry Street, andwas the earliest house of substantial character built westof the Alleghenies, and possibly antedates Colonel Bou-quets redoubt. General Gibson was here as early as1763, but it is not known where he lived. The houseMr. Craig mentions as Gibsons, on the corner of SecondStreet and Chancery Lane, whilst the first built of brick,was not erected till about 1784. General Neville, accord-ing to Mr. Craig, did not reside here until the time whenthe Eevolutionary troubles began. John Scull, GeneralTannehill, and Judge Brackenridge came still later. Thelatter tells us in the first number of the Pittsburgh Ga-zette^ that he came in 1781. These are the houses thathave been marked on Campbells plan, and not in a singleinstance are they properly CHAPTER VI. SCHOOL-BOY DAYS. *• O I would I were a boy again, When life seemed foimed of sunny years,And all the heart then knew of pain,Was swept away in transient tears ! Mark Lemon. AT the time when my school days began, throughoutPennsylvania private schools alone afforded themeans for educating our youth; public schools, or freeschools, as at the outset they were called, were not estab-lished until a year or two later. Prominent, at this period, and for a long time after,among the schools in Pittsburgh, was that of the Misses F . Their residence, in which the school was held, was a little two-story brick house on Front Street belowFerry. It is still standing, and its present number is boys and girls were taught there, the latter alwayslargely in the majority. About the spring of 1834 I wasenrolled with the pupils of this school. Children frommany prominent families of the city were in attendance,and I recall such names as those of Wood, Bissell, Town-send, and Ogden, th
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