McKeesport
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Location in Pennsylvania
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1795 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Pennsylvania | ||
| County : | Allegheny County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 21 ′ N , 79 ° 51 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 19,731 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 1,506.2 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 14.0 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) of which 13.1 km 2 (approx. 5 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 302 m | ||
| Postal code : | 15132 | ||
| Area code : | +1 412 | ||
| FIPS : | 4200346256 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1214807 | ||
| Website : | www.mckeesport.org | ||
McKeesport is a city in Allegheny County , Pennsylvania, USA, which had a population of 24,000 in 2000; Pittsburgh is the largest (and next largest) city in the same borough.
The city was named after its founder, John McKee, in 1795 ; a businessman who lived in what was later to be the city. In 1940, 55,355 people lived in McKeesport - the decrease was caused by the exodus of the steel industry . There used to be large deposits of bituminous coal .
The city is known for the satellite campus of Penn State University . Less notable was the kidnapping case of Tanya Kach , who was imprisoned for ten years.
history
John McKee, a Philadelphia settler and son of David McKee, built a log cabin near the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers - the site of the present day town of McKeesport. After John took over his father's ferry business, he began planning a town called McKee's Port . John McKee published his plan in the Pittsburgh Gazette and promoted residents of his city - interested people could buy a piece of land for twenty dollars. A lottery was set up to satisfy those applicants who would otherwise have to be given land in an unsuitable, inferior position.
sons and daughters of the town
- Marc Connelly (1890–1980), journalist, playwright and writer
- Karl Brown (1896–1990), cameraman, screenwriter, actor and director
- Aline MacMahon (1899–1991), theater and film actress
- Frank Buchanan (1902–1951), politician
- Lawrence Michael De Falco (1915–1979), Catholic Bishop of Amarillo
- Byron Janis (* 1928), pianist, composer and musicologist
- Duane Michals (* 1932), photographer
- Bette Ford (born 1937), actress and bullfighter
- Charles H. Moore (* 1938), computer scientist, inventor of the Forth programming language
- Rudy Ricci (1940–2012), actor
- Joan Logue (* 1942), pioneer of video art
- John E. McLaughlin (born 1942), intelligence officer, director of the CIA
- Joseph Farcus (* 1944), architect
- Jeff Kline (* 1944), racing car driver
- Paul Joseph Bradley (* 1945), Roman Catholic Bishop of Kalamazoo
- Keith Lynn Ackerman (born 1946), Anglican bishop
- Cheryl McCall (1950–2005), author, film producer, and screenwriter
- Tamara Tunie (* 1959), actress
- Bill Shuster (* 1961), politician
- Sam Sneed (* 1968), hip-hop producer and rapper
- Swin Cash (* 1979), basketball player