{{Short description|Personification of Pittsburgh}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{CSS image crop|Image=Pitt Leader 1909-10-17.png|bSize=800|cWidth=136|cHeight=245|oTop=240|oLeft=424|Description=Father Pitt cele­brat­ing 1909 World Series win, drawn by Fred Johnston of the ''Leader''.}} '''Pa Pitt''', originally "Father Pitt", has been a personification of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania since the 1890s. Numerous editorial cartoonists have depicted "Pa Pitt" over the years, notably ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' cartoonist Cy Hungerford.
A 1906 article by Raymond Gros lists seven cartoonists who had already drawn a 'Father Pitt', including Fred Johnston of the ''Leader'' whom Gros credits as creating 'Father Pitt' in 1897 to replace an earlier personification, 'Miss Pittsburgh'.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gros |first=Raymond |journal=The Index |date=6 October 1906 |title=Father Pitt in Cartoons |publisher=The Index Company |location=Pittsburgh |url=http://www.info-ren.org/projects/btul/Pennsylvania/papa1.html |via=Internet Archive, via The Pennsylvania Department, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |accessdate=12 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213191209/http://www.info-ren.org/projects/btul/Pennsylvania/papa1.html |archivedate=13 February 2012 }}</ref> Historian J. Cutler Andrews credited a different ''Leader'' journalist, Arthur G. Burgoyne, with creating the character. Burgoyne himself claimed that "On November 5, 1895, Father Pitt was born. He was my offspring."<ref>{{cite book|last=Thomas|first=Clarke M.|title=Front-Page Pittsburgh: Two Hundred Years of the Post-Gazette|location=Pittsburgh|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|year=2005|isbn=0-8229-4248-8|page=319|url=https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735062136266/viewer#page/332/}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.info-ren.org/projects/btul/Pennsylvania/papa.html "Who is Pa Pitt?"] (includes links to artwork by several cartoonists) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120213191215/http://www.info-ren.org/projects/btul/Pennsylvania/pap05.html Original "Father Pitt" cartoon by Johnston]
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