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Canonsburg

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Canonsburg, borough (1990 pop. 9,200), Washington co., SW Pa., inc. 1802. Its steel and coal industries have declined significantly. A gram of radium produced there was presented to Marie Curie Pierre Curie, 1859–1906, scientist, and his wife,

Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867–1934, chemist and physicist, b. Warsaw, are known for their work on radioactivity and on radium.
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 in 1921 when she visited the town. The Log Cabin School (est. 1777; the first school west of the Alleghenies) is preserved. The Black Horse Tavern was a famous gathering place for leaders of the Whisky Rebellion (1794). Roberts House (1804) is an example of W Pennsylvania manor architecture.


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They have nine children: Mike McParlane of Canonsburg, Penn.
Headquartered in Canonsburg, PA, Inductotherm Automation, Inc.
Their long-term objective, however, is to build an investment portfolio so that they might both retire in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside of Pittsburgh.
 
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