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PITTSBURGH
THE INDUSTRIAL CITY
By SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH
George Washington, the Father
of his Country, is equally the Father of
Pittsburgh, for he came thither in November,
1753, and established the location of the now
imperial city by choosing it as the best place
for a fort. Washington was then twenty-one
years old. He had by that time written his
precocious one hundred and ten maxims of
civility and good behavior; had declined to
be a midshipman in the British Navy; had
made his only sea-voyage to Barbadoes; had
surveyed the estates of Lord Fairfax, going
for months into the forest without fear of savage
Indians or wild beasts, and was now a
major of Virginia militia. In pursuance of the
claim of Virginia that she owned that part of
