MCKEESPORT  , a

city of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers (both of which are navigable), 14 M . S.E. of Pittsburg . Pop . (1890), 20,741; (1900), 34,227, of whom 9349 were foreign-born and 748 were negroes; (1910 census) 42,694 . It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pittsburg & Lake Erie and the Pennsylvania railways . The city has a Carnegie library, a general hospital, and two business schools . Bituminous coal and natural gas abound in the vicinity, and iron, steel, and tin and terne plate are extensively manufactured in the city, the tin-plate plant being one of the most important in the United States . The total value of the city's factory products was $36,058,447 in 1900 and $23,0J4,412 in 1905 . The municipality owns and operates its water-works . The first white settler was David McKee, who established a ferry here in 1769 . In 1795 his son John laid out the town, which was named in his honour, but its growth was very slow until after the discovery of coal in 183o . McKeesport was incorporated as a borough in 1842 and chartered as a city in 189o .