Background
Bitzer was born to John and Dorothea (Beck) Bitzer on January 16, 1865 in Dürrwangen, Württeberg, Germany.
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Jacob Bitzer
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Bitzer attended the Cutter School in Arlington, Massachusetts, graduating in 1879.
Career
Education
At the end of his apprenticeship the company went out of business. After he left the employ of Welch & Griffiths Bitzer went to work as a mill hand, on an irregular moulding machine, in the mill of Theodore Schwamb, a manufacturer of piano cases. In 1897, when the Schwamb Mill was incorporated, Bitzer became a stockholder, and clerk of the corporation.
In 1908 Bitzer was the assistant superintendent of the mill in charge of the mill department.
Bitzer was an alternative delegate to the of 1912. Bitzer served in the legislature from 1915 to 1919.
Membership
On November 3, 1914 Bitzer was elected a member of the representing the twenty seventh Middlesex District, Bitzer received 1,372 in a three way race that included fellow Arlington Resident Cyrus Edwin Dallin. James F. McCarthy of Lexington, Massachusetts. During the 1917 legislative session Bitzer was a member of the Committee on Public Institutions, and the Committee on Ways and Means.
