Marion County, West Virginia Biography of Dorsey Plummer FITCH, M.D. This file was submitted by Suzie Crump, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, pgs. 252-253 DORSEY PLUMMER FITCH, M.D., is one of the able physicians and surgeons of his native state and is engaged in active general practice in the City of Fairmont, Marion County. He was born at Morgantown, Monongalia County, September 12, 1858, and is a son of Capt. Enoch Plummer Fitch and Louisa (Dorsey) Fitch. Captain Fitch was born in Preston County, Virginia, (now West Virginia), and was a son of Arthur Fitch, who was a representative of a family founded in New England in the Colonial period of our national history. Captain Fitch served as sheriff of Monongalia County, and was one of the first men in that county to tender his aid in defense of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated. He received commission as captain and later became quartermaster, as office of which he was the incumbent at the time of his death, May 31, 1864, in Hanover County, Virginia. Hid wife long survived him and was a member of an old and honored family of Monongalia County. Doctor Fitch was reared on his father's farm in Monongalia County, and his higher education along academic lines was obtained in the University of West Virginia. He thereafter studied medicine in the office of Drs. Hugh W. and Luther S. Brock at Morgantown, and later attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College in the City of Philadelphia. For four years thereafter he was associated in practice with his former preceptors, the Doctors Brock at Morgantown, and he then completed the full course in Jefferson Medical College, in which he was graduated in 1885, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then engaged in practice at Frostburg, Maryland, where he remained until 1888, since which year he has been one of the leading physicians and surgeons at Fairmont, West Virginia, his prestige in his profession having been won by ability and faithful stewardship. He has taken a post-graduate course on diseases of the eye at Jefferson Medical College, and in bacteriology in the Richmond Medical College, Richmond, Virginia. He is now one of the veteran and honored members of the Marion County Medical Society, is a member also of the West Virginia State Medical Society, and he is affiliated with the local Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery of the Masonic fraternity, as well as with the lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. September 3, 1884, Doctor Fitch wedded Sallie Haymond, daughter of Marcus W. Haymond, of Fairmont, and she passed to the life eternal in the year 1896. She was survived by two children: George Carroll, who took a course in civil engineering at the University of West Virginia, is now a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is associated with the Pittsburgh Coal Company; and Sallie Louise is the wife of Everett C. Butler, who is engaged in the jewelry business in the City of Cleveland, Ohio. On the 2d of July, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Fitch and Blanche Haymond, a sister of his first wife.