William Tecumseh Fitch was born in Trumbull County Ohio in 1866 and died in Oakland, California in 1932. His sister Jennie was my great grandmother and his father was Alva Levi Fitch (my great great grandfather) a Civil War veteran who served in the 14th Ohio Battery of light artillery in the Army of the Tennessee. William got his middle name from his father’s commanding general; I got mine from my great grandfather Claude King, Jennie’s husband. To my grandmother, W. T. Fitch was “Uncle B” (he was also uncle to Alva Revista Fitch).
W. T. Fitch moved West to Fort Bragg, California in the 1890s and was a photographer. In addition to studio portraits, he photographed Mendicino County landscapes and the lumber industry. His photographs and essays appeared in The Northern Crown magazine and he advertised as “Fitch, The Photo Man.”
