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About T. S. Fitch
- Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (21 March 1908 – 7 October 1969) was the founder and CEO of Washington Steel Corporation.
- He was the great-grandson of Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman.
- He graduated from Yale University in 1931, when he joined Jessop Steel, initially working as a laborer and then rising in the ranks of management to head the Composite Steel Division from 1936 to 1942.
- He founded Washington Steel in 1945.Fitch served as mayor of Washington, Pennsylvania from 1956 to 1960.
- He was a strong supporter of the African-American community in that city, and was instrumental in the creation of the LeMoyne Center athletic facility in 1956, in the heart of the black community, where the T.S.
- Fitch Gymnasium was named for him.
- The dedication was attended by baseball greats Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey Fitch was also a founding Board Member and strong supporter of PONY League Baseball, which was founded in Washington, PA in 1951. Fitch married Janet M Reed in 1935, and they had seven children.
- He died of emphysema at the age of 61, in 1969.
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