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The Life of MAYOR WILLIAM LITTLE

Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1839 to 1840.

 

William Little was born in Pittsburgh in 1809. Early in his life he belonged to the civic/vigilance committee The Duquesne Greys.

 

Upon being elected mayor Little began a fractious and confrontational relationship with city council. He declined to seek reelection in 1840, citing frustration with the politics of the city.

 

After leaving the mayor's office he delve back into commerce, developing a canal freight business in Ohio before moving further west and starting a successful furniture company in Iowa.

 

By the middle of the century though the former mayor came back to his hometown of Pittsburgh to manage the Monongahela Navigation Company, he also served as treasurer of a local Pittsburgh bank.

 

He died in 1887 in Pittsburgh, aged 78.

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