History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . and elected to a seat in the Forty-first Congress from theTwenty-second Congressional District of Pennsylvaniaby almost five thousand majority. He was reelectedto the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, andagain in 1874 was elected to Congress as well as to theForty-ninth Congress, after which he retired, and inNew York City embarked in railroad enterprises. Whilein Congress he conceived the idea of making Pittsburgha deep water harbor and obtained the first appropriationfor this pur
History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . and elected to a seat in the Forty-first Congress from theTwenty-second Congressional District of Pennsylvaniaby almost five thousand majority. He was reelectedto the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, andagain in 1874 was elected to Congress as well as to theForty-ninth Congress, after which he retired, and inNew York City embarked in railroad enterprises. Whilein Congress he conceived the idea of making Pittsburgha deep water harbor and obtained the first appropriationfor this purpose. He also aided Ohio river and otherriver and harbor enterprises. He was largely interestedin Mexican railway building. At one time he was presi-dent of the Union National League of America; mem-ber of the Grand Army of the Republic; Scott Legion;Masonic fraternity; National Board of Steam Naviga-tion ; Shipping League, etc., holding official places in will long remember his work in securing theappropriation for the Davis Island Dam. General Negley was twice married, in 1848 to Kate. ^J-Ci/TXCA^ J(m-t:>yn cZ^ BIOGRAPHICAL 63 Losey, by whom he had three sons, Clifford, James George, all deceased. By his second marriage, toGrace Ashton, he had three daughters: Grace, whomarried Enoch S. Parson, and has two sons, James Neg-ley, and Ensign Enoch S., Jr., of the United StatesNaval Reserves, who, Sept. 15, 1917, married Louisede Camp Butter, of Baltimore, Md.; Edith, and Negley died Aug. 7, 1901, and was laid to restin the Negley family lot in Allegheny Cemetery withmilitary honors. EDMUND W. MUDGE—Belonging to modern,progressive Pittsburgh, his business operations on anextensive scale contained in the two past decades, has acquired holdings and interests that haveplaced him among the citys foremost men of is a native of Pennsylvania, bom in Philadelphia,Jan. 12, 1870, son of Thomas Henry and Mary Emma(Sheppard) Mudge. E
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