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LeRoy D. Fitch (Cass County, Indiana, naval lieutenant. )

b. 1835-10 d. 1875-04-13

Cass County, Indiana, naval lieutenant. Indiana native. Son of Frederick Fitch. Married to Mary Smith Fitch. Father of Marie Lee Fitch. Graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 1856. Served in the United States Navy as a master, lieutenant, and commander, mustered in 1856.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Cass County, Logansport, p. 199A.

Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 – ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, Application #2428.

"Telegraph News," The Evening News (Indianapolis, IN), April 14, 1875, p. 2.

"Fitch, Leroy," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. II, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 472.

Emma C. Brewster Jones, The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the “Mayflower,” Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Church Which Founded Plymouth Colony in 1620 (New York: The Grafton Press, 1908) 440.

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Fitch, LeRoy D.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209853 (November 12, 2026).

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