The community was named for Joanna Wilmerding ( Bruce ) Negley, wife of William B. Negley, who in turn was a local landowner and nephew of Thomas Mellon.

George Merrill was the director of Lick until 1939, and later also the director of Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts and the Lux School for Industrial Training for Girls.

Wilmerding is adjacent to the borough of Turtle Creek, which takes its name from a small stream that flows past both places.

The territory designated in 1788 as Versailles Township now contains the townships of North Versailles and South Versailles ; the boroughs of White Oak, East McKeesport, Wall, Versailles, and portions of Wilmerding and Trafford ; as well as the major portion ( excluding 10th ward ) of the city of McKeesport.

The section of Wilmerding on the north side of Turtle Creek was originally part of the former Patton Township, and the majority of Trafford is situated in Westmoreland County.

Early villages and population centers in North Versailles included Port Perry, Saltsburgh and Allequippa Grove along the Monongahela River ; Pleasant Hill near to what is now East McKeesport ; Point Pleasant located near the present intersections of Route 30 and McKee and Naser roads ; and Stewart's Station, Spring Hill, Mosside Station, Wall Station, and Wilmerding Station along Turtle Creek, a tributary of the Monongahela River.

Each ward was served by one department, with the exception of Ward 3, which had both the Sunset and South Wilmerding VFDs.

Crestas VFD ( with one station ) serves Crestas Terrace and West Wilmerding.

The North Versailles Township Police department also patrols the borough of Wilmerding.

North Versailles, East McKeesport, Wilmerding, and Wall consolidated school systems in the early 1960s to form the East Allegheny School District.

The former East McKeesport High School was transformed into a Junior High serving East McKeesport, Wilmerding, Wall and certain portions of North Versailles near East McKeesport.

The township surrounds East McKeesport, Wilmerding, and Wall.

Comedian Donna Jean Young, whose career was built upon her material related to East McKeesport and " Woolmerding " ( as she pronounced and spelled Wilmerding in her act ), was a resident of Broadway Extension, Arlington Plan, North Versailles Township.

( See: East Pittsburgh and Wilmerding.

Turtle Creek is bordered by Wilkins Township to the west and north, Monroeville to the east, Wilmerding to the southeast, North Versailles Township to the south, and East Pittsburgh to the southwest.

Wilmerding is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Wilmerding officially became a borough on March 8, 1890.

Wilmerding is located at ( 40. 394538 ,-79. 808576 ).

Wilmerding is bordered by Monroeville to the northeast, Wall to the east, East McKeesport to the south, North Versailles Township to the southwest, and Turtle Creek, via Greensburg Pike / Lincoln Highway Bridge, to the northwest.

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The original 22-member Board of Trustees included Chair Gregory Peck and Vice Chair Sidney Poitier as well as Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti and other representatives from the arts and academia.

George Stevens, Jr., served as director from the institute's founding until 1980.

* 1940 – Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1985 – Ted Ginn, Jr., American football player

* 1969 – Paulo Jr., Brazilian musician ( Sepultura )

* 1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician ( d. 1952 )

* 1929 – Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor

* 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1932 – Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist

* 1944 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician

* 1989 – Carlos Pena, Jr., American singer-songwriter and actor ( Big Time Rush )

* 1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American novelist ( d. 2000 )

* 1915 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter ( d. 2000 )

* 1946 – Charles F. Bolden, Jr., American general and astronaut

* 1969 – Emigdio Preciado, Jr., Mexican-American criminal

* 1724 – Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant ( d. 1796 )

* 1947 – Rex Allen, Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist

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