Background
Fitch, Charles Elliott was born on December 3, 1835 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Brockway (banker in Syracuse for 40 yrs) and Ursula (Elliott) F.
Fitch, Charles Elliott was born on December 3, 1835 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Brockway (banker in Syracuse for 40 yrs) and Ursula (Elliott) F.
Bachelor of Arts, Williams, 1855. Bachelor of Laws, Albany Law School, 1857. Master of Arts, ad eundem, Syracuse University, 1875.
(Doctor of Humane Letters, Hamilton, 1895).
Clerk provost court, Newbern, North Carolina, 1864-1865. Practiced law, Syracuse, New York, and Newbern, North Carolina, 1857-1866. Editor-in-chief Syracuse Daily Standard, 1866-1873, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1873-1890.
Collector United States internal revenue, 1890-1804.
State lecturer New York Department Public Instruction, 1895-1904. Chief division of records, Education Department, New York, 1904-1906.
Chief division of school libraries, 1906-1912. Supervisor United States census, 1880.
Chairman Republican State Convention, 1888.
Secretary New York Constitutional Convention, 1894. Regent U. State of New York, 1877-1904. Editor: Recollections of Abraham Lansing.
Political New York from Cleveland to Hughes.
New York—Political and Governmental. Encyclopedia of Biography of New New York Home: Syracuse, New New York
Married Louise Lawrence Smith, July 21, 1870.