Pittsburgh Commercial

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The Pittsburgh Commercial was a morning daily newspaper published from 7 September 1863{{cite web|website=Chronicling America|title=About The Pittsburgh daily commercial|publisher=Library of Congress|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85054542/ |accessdate=17 Apr 2016}} to 14 February 1877{{cite web|website=Chronicling America|title=About The Pittsburgh commercial|publisher=Library of Congress|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025913/ |accessdate=17 Apr 2016}} in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was outspokenly Republican in its political commentary.{{cite book|last=Andrews|first=J. Cutler|title=Pittsburgh's Post-Gazette: "The first newspaper west of the Alleghenies"|location=Boston|publisher=Chapman & Grimes|year=1936|page=183|hdl=2027/mdp.39015011226290?urlappend=%3Bseq=209|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011226290?urlappend=%3Bseq=209}} Its succession of chief editors included Thomas James Bigham, Charles D. Brigham, and Russell Errett; poet Richard Realf was an assistant editor.{{cite book|year=1876|title=History of Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania|publisher=L. H. Everts & Co.|location=Philadelphia|page=128|url=https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A00aee8639m/viewer#page/148/mode/1up}} The owners of the competing Pittsburgh Gazette eventually purchased the Commercial and consolidated the two papers as the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.{{cite book|last=Killikelly|first=Sarah Hutchins|title=The History of Pittsburgh: Its Rise and Progress|publisher=B.C. & Gordon Montgomery Company|year=1906|page=487|isbn=9783849673789 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kXmloex-vr8C&pg=PA487}}{{cite web|website=Chronicling America|title=About Pittsburgh commercial gazette|publisher=Library of Congress|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85054512/ |accessdate=17 Apr 2016}}