Luther Fitch letter : ALS, Foster's Bar , 1853 Feb. 6.

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Luther Fitch letter : ALS, Foster's Bar , 1853 Feb. 6.

Letter to his father, Judge S. Fitch of Portland Maine, written from Foster's Bar, Yuba Co., with information of the day and details of his life as a gold miner.

4 p. ; 26 cm.

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Fitch, Luther

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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 r...