Sacramento County Biographies

F. B. FITCH

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Walsh Station; lives nine miles from Sacramento, on 
the Jackson road; was born in Ohio, in 1820, and lived there until 1850, engaged 
in teaching school. He came to California in that year, across the Plains, and 
stopped awhile in El Dorado county; he subsequently moved to Nevada county; 
settled in this county December, 1850, and engaged in farming: owns two hundred 
and forty-six acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $4,000. He was 
married in 1856 to Miss Lucy Fobes, also a native of Ohio; they raised two 
children. His wife died December 1, 1877. Mr. Fitch has always manifested a keen 
interest in educational matters; held the office of School Director for about 
seventeen years. He also held the office of Justice of Peace for five years. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.