BIOGRAPHY: Fitch, George W.
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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GEORGE W. FITCH, M.D., was born in Hudson, Columbia County, New York, August 
12 1797.  He was educated at Williams College, Massachusetts, of which institution he 
was a graduate.  For a number of years    prior to his removal west, in 1838, he was 
president of the Cayuga County Medical College.  Being a man of wealth, Doctor Fitch's 
object in coming to Iowa was to invest in real estate, after which it was his intention to 
have returned to New York.  He was, however, induced to change his arrangements and 
discontinue his profession, by becoming acquainted with Miss Harriet Viele, youngest 
daughter of Abraham  I., and  Hannah Douglas Viele, formally of New York, but now 
residents of Muscatine County, Iowa, to whom he was married, in November, 1839.  He 
subsequently located at Bloomington, now Muscatine, where he continued to reside until 
his death, which occured August 27, 1847.  His wife still survives him, also one daughter, 
Louise Douglas, who married William H. Farrand, and is now a resident of Rochester, 
New York.  He had two other daughters, both of whom died in infancy.
Doctor Fitch was an accomplished gentleman, possessed of a fine, well cultivated 
intellect, combined with great suavity of manner and swettness of disposition.   He was a  
fond and devoted husband and father, a true friend, and a noble Christian gentleman.  His 
remains are reposing in " Oak Dale Cemetary," Davenport, Iowa.