Fitch, Luther

Luther Fitch (1803-1877), resident of Portland, Me., Judge of Probate (1835). He and his wife Rebecca had seven children -- daughters Mary, Caroline, Harriet, and Almira, and sons Andrew T. Edward, and Luther. Andrew T. Fitch, a physician, moved to New York in 1853, having failed to obtain a job at Chelsea Hospital (Mass.). Luther Fitch, M.D. (b. 1821) moved to California in 1850 and settled in Foster's Bar, Yuba County where he mined for gold and ran a medical practice. Edward Fitch pursued a real estate and brokerage business in Chicago, in partnership with Frederick Harding. In 1853, he married Helen Adelaide Hovey (b. 1838).

From the description of Correspondence of Judge Luther Fitch, 1850-1856 (bulk 1853) (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 85257176