Joseph Fitch (August 27, 1857 – April 7, 1917) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York.
Life
Fitch was born on August 27, 1857, in Flushing, New York, the only child of businessman Joseph Fitch and Avis Leggett.[1]
Fitch attended the Flushing Institute. He then went to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, graduating from there in 1879. He then studied law in the office of Charles W. Pleasants in New York City from 1881 to 1882. He also attended classes in Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1882 and began practicing law in New York City. From 1880 to 1887, he was Second Lieutenant of the Seventeenth Separate Company, New York National Guard.[2] He later became the senior member of the law firm Fitch, Moore & Swan.[3]
Fitch died of acute indigestion at his friend Desmond Nelson's home in Brookhaven, where he was staying while repairs were being made at his summer home in the town, on April 7, 1917.[8] He was buried in Flushing Cemetery.
^"Magistrate J. Fitch Dead". The Rockaway News. Vol. XXII, no. 41. Far Rockaway, N.Y. 11 April 1917. p. 1 – via Digital Archives of the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library.