# Pa Pitt > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pa_Pitt > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pa_Pitt.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa_Pitt > Source revision: 1315950359 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/1909_World_Series) win, drawn by Fred Johnston of the ''Leader''.}} '''Pa Pitt''', originally "Father Pitt", has been a [personification](/source/personification) of the city of [Pittsburgh](/source/Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania since the 1890s. Numerous editorial cartoonists have depicted "Pa Pitt" over the years, notably ''[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette](/source/Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette)'' cartoonist [Cy Hungerford](/source/Cyrus_Cotton_%22Cy%22_Hungerford). A 1906 article by Raymond Gros lists seven cartoonists who had already drawn a 'Father Pitt', including Fred Johnston of the ''[Leader](/source/Pittsburgh_Leader)'' whom Gros credits as creating 'Father Pitt' in 1897 to replace an earlier personification, 'Miss Pittsburgh'.{{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 }} 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."{{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](/source/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/}} ==References== ==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] {{Pittsburgh-stub}} Category:Civic personifications Category:Culture of Pittsburgh --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Pa Pitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa_Pitt) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa_Pitt?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.