Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Fitts, Calvin Richards 1840 - 1883
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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

REV. CALVIN RICHARDS FITTS.

CALVIN RICHARDS FITTS, son of Charles H. and Emeline A. (Richards) Fitts, was
born Feb. 10, 1840, in West Medway. His youth was spent in Rockville, Medway. He
pursued his preparatory studies in the academy in Monson, Mass., and graduated
in 1864 from Amherst College, Massachusetts. His theological studies were
pursued in the seminary in Chicago, Ill., from which he graduated in 1866. He
ministered a few months to the Congregational Church in Harvard, Ill. Returning
East he was ordained Sept. 5, 1866, in Medfleld, and labored for a year with the
Congregational Church in South Braintree, Mass. In 1868 he was installed pastor
of the Second Congregational Church in Cohasset, Mass. He resigned in 1870 and
removed to Slatersville, R. I., and ministered to the Congregational Church
there for eleven years, until April 1, 1881. He then resided for a short period
in West Quincy, and was called to the supply of the pulpit in Sudbury, Mass., in
the spring of 1883, to which place he removed the 26th of September to minister
permanently, when he was taken ill, and died suddenly Oct. 10, 1883. The Rev.
Mr. Fitts married, Feb. 10, 1869, Helen F. Trask, daughter of Theodore Trask,
Esq., of Quincy, Mass. The children were: Arthur Richards, born Dec. 23, 1869;
Ernest Vinton, born March 9, 1873; Charles Theodore, born April 4, 1875, died
Nov. 6, 1878; Gertrude Augusta, born Dec. 21, 1876, died Jan. 9, 1880; Walter
Mansfield, born April 26, 1881.


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS,
AND
The Genealogical Records
OF
MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES
IN
MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.
Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
BY
E. O. JAMESON,
THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS." ETC.
MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

Copyright, 1886.
E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.
All Rights Reserved.

J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.


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