Female worker bottling ketchup at the original Heinz factory circa 1897. Pittsburgh, PA.
On Feb. 23, 1857, Margaret Deland was born in Allegheny City. Was novelist, short story writer & poet known principally for her best-selling novel "John Ward, Preacher" (1888). Her "Old Chester" books, based on her early memories of Pittsburgh were also popular. She was recognized as an important and popular author of literary realism in the U.S. In her lifetime, she was called the American Thomas Humphry Ward and was compared to Elizabeth Gaskell.
On Feb. 14, 1984, Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh led the world's first simultaneous heart and liver transplant on 6-year-old Stormie Jones at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Henry Bahnson transplanted the heart, and Dr. Byers Shaw transplanted the liver. The operation took 16 hours. Without the transplant, Stormie was not expected to live more than a year. Due to the operation, her life was extended by more than six years.