Abstract
The jailing of officeholders is seldom a cause for public celebration, but a cheering crowd of 2,000 gathered on March 8, 1860, when a four-horse carriage brought County Commissioners Zaccheus Patterson and Jonathan Brauff to the Allegheny County Jail. After being joined the next day by their colleague, John H. McIlhenny, who had been ill, the three commissioners received a stream of visitors, daily, for the next few weeks. Some serenaded the captives in their cell, and some brought them cakes, but most just wanted to shake their hands.
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