Hugh Richardson Fitch

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Hugh Richardson Fitch was born Oct 3, 1894 in Wei Hsien, Shantung, China. Hugh was the third child of the Reverend John Ashley Fitch and Mary Helen Richardson.

Hugh grew up in a mission community in China. His parents were Presbyterian missionaries in China for 40 years. Hugh learned to speak Chinese before he learned to speak English. Wei Hsien had no school for American children, so Hugh and his brother Ellsworth had to leave their home and parents when he was six and travel to the city of Chefoo on the coast to attend the China Inland Mission School for Missionary Children.

He attended Wooster College in Wooster, Ohio, and received a master's degree from Princeton. He also attended Columbia University.

Hugh Richardson Fitch and Esther Lucile Swallen were married in New York City, NY in Dec 1929. Directly after the wedding, they drove from New York to Annapolis, Maryland. Hugh had a position at the Annapolis Naval Academy from 1928 to 1933.

He taught at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, the American Institute of Banking in the Lake Francis School near Miami and Woodbury Forest in Orange, Va.

Mr. Fitch, a retired English professor at the City College of New York, is the author of a book of poems, "Buzzards, Peacocks and Nightingales," and another book, "Puritan in Manhattan."

Hugh Richardson Fitch died on 31 July 1969. He was a resident of Leonia, New Jersey. He was cremated at Garden State Crematory in North Bergen, NJ. His ashes were flown to Iowa and he was buried at Graceland Cemetery, Bedford, Taylor Co., Iowa. Inscription: FITCH ESTHER S. HUGH R. 1902-1970 1894-1969

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