REV. LEMON FITCH
Lemon Fitch, an early settler of Cass county, was born in Washington county. New York, February 17, 1811. He was married May 22, 1834, to Ruth Morrison, a daughter of Alexander Morrison, who was born February 7, 1816. They have had fourteen children--Cordelia, Edward, Henry, Marietta, Millard, died in infancy; John T., died in May, 1882, aged thirty-eight; Julia E., Matilda, dead; Asa N., died when quite young; Ruth A., died in infancy; Flora, Lillie, Willie, Fred and Lora A. In 1835, they left New York and went to Jackson, Michigan, where he assisted in building up that city, and in the erection of the first court house. In 1837 they removed to Illinois, where he followed preaching about ten years. In 1848 they went to Milwaukee, thence to Grand Rapids, where they spent fourteen years. In 1882 they removed to Steuben county, Indiana. May 9, 1870, they came to Anita, Grant township, where he now has eighty-three and one-half acres, valued at forty dollars per acre. Mr. Fitch has been a church member for fifty-two years.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 687.
