Crawford-Clark County IL Archives Biographies.....Fitch, John R. 1862 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  JOHN R. FITCH, farmer, P. O. West York. This gentleman was born January 2,
1862, in York, Ill. He was a grandson of Chester Fitch, born April 12, 1787, in
Rutland, Vt., who died August 23, 1847, in York, Ill. He married Elizabeth
Richardson, born December 15, 1789, in New York. She died September 25, 1869, in
York, Ill. She was the mother of seven children, of whom Edward Fitch was one.
He was born November 1, 1829, in York, Ill., and died January 9, 1870, in York,
Ill. He married Mary Jane Mount, born October 14, 1832, in Clark County. Ill.
She died April 27, 1865, in York, Ill. She was a daughter of John L. and Tamar
(Megeath) Mount, and the mother of one son, John R. Fitch, our subject. Chester
Fitch may be classed among our old pioneers and his grandson yet owns the old
home place which was entered by him. Mr. John R. Fitch now owns about 500 acres
of land in Clark and Crawford Counties. He is identified with the Republican
party, as were his ancestors before him. Edward Fitch was married November 22,
1860, and after spending a portion of the following winter in the South, he came
back to York and settled on the old farm which then belonged to the heirs. By
his careful management of the farm, and dealing in stock, he made enough money
to buy the interests of the other heirs, and at the time of his death owned 500
acres of land free from debt, which our subject inherited.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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