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- Fitt, Oliver P. Fitt, Feb. 23, beloved husband of Sophia Fitt, nee Denney. Funeral from his late residence, 5351 S. Justine st., Friday, Feb. 26, at 1 p.m.; interment at Mt. Greewood by automobiles. Member of Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Town of Lake Div., No.647, and O.R.C., Div. No.1. Canada papers please copy.
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois. Friday, 26 February 1915.
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- LKH note:
There is conflicting information about Oliver Fitt and who he married. It is possible that there are two Oliver Fitts.
Oliver Fitt, born c. 1864 in Canada, son of Thomas Fitt (b. England) and Elizabeth Fitt (b. Canada), appears in his parent’s household in the 1880 census in Springwells, Wayne County, Michigan.
Oliver P. Fitt (b. 10 Dec 1863, Canada) died 23 Feb 1915 in Chicago. Occupation switchman, father Thomas Fitt (b.England). Info from abstract on Ancestry of Oliver’s death record in Cook County, Illinois.
Olive P. Fitt (b. Canada) married Sophia M. Denney (b. Canada) on 7 Apr 1884 in Bay City, Bay County, Michigan. Info from their marriage record.
Oliver Fitt married Kate Slattery on 27 Jan 1886 in Fountain County, Indiana. Info from their marriage record. The Indiana marriage record does not include where they were born.
So far, I have been unable to find any Oliver Fitt anywhere in the 1900 or the 1910 census.
Sophia Fitt appears in an 1886 city directory for Bay City, Michigan as a dressmaker. Oliver does not appear in that directory.
Sophia Fitt appear in the 1920 census in Chicago as the sister-in-law of William Watson (married to Lydia (Denney) Watson) Sophia is listed as a widow, age 55, born c.1865 in Canada. She’s a clerk in a dry good store.
Katherine Fitt appears in 1900 US census in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. She is listed as born 37 years old, born in April 1866 Indiana. The only other member of her household is Mary Fitt age 12, born Nov 1887 in Indiana. Mary is listed a Katherine's granddaughter.
Mary (Fitt) Gilkison’s information in the abstract of her entry in the Illinois death and stillbirths index gives her father as Oliver Fitt, born in Canada and mother as Katherine Slatery born in Covington, Indiana.
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- LKH note:
Is this the same Oliver Fitt?
A Danville man arrested for a murder in Indiana. Joseph Miller, age 23 years, son of Stacy Miller, a saloonkeeper in Danville, Ill., was arrested yesterday by the Sheriff of Fountain County, Indiana, charged with murder in the first degree. Sept. 21 last Joseph Harter, aged 50, was shot and killed in a saloon row at Covington, the county seat of Fountain Country. That night Oliver Fitt of Danville, Ill., was arrested for the crime and has since been in jail. Testimony has just been produced before the grand jury directly charging Miller with the shooting. The trial is set for the third Monday in November.
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois. Wednesday, 2 November 1887.
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- Long Chase For Assailant
James McQuaid Captured by an Officer After a Fight in Saloon.
James McQuaid, a switchman employed by the Stock Yards company, is under arrest at the stock yards police station on various charges, growing out of an encounter he had in a saloon fracus yesterday afternoon and his attempt to escape arrest. McQuaid some time ago became involved in some trouble with a brother switchman, Oliver Fitt. He asserted Fitt circulated stories about him. Yesterday afternoon at Forty-seventh and Halsted streets he met Fitt and the quarrel was resumed. They entered Bergin’s salon close by, where, after a few words, McQuaid drew a revolved and fired a shot at Fitt. The bullet missed the later and McQuaid started to run away. As he left the saloon he met Thomas Sheahan, another switchman, and knocked him down with the butt end of his revolver. Outside he started west and jumped on a freight engine and tried to get away.
Officer Sheridan heard the shot and seeing McQuaid running away he followed. Jerry Healey joined in the chase and with the office jumped on the rapidly moving engine. Healey reached out to seize McQuaid when the latter kicked him in the face, breaking several teeth. Sheridan ordered the engineer to stop the engine and McQuaid was arrested. His three victims went to the police station with him and entered separate charges against him.
The Chicago Chronicle, Chicago, Illinois. Saturday, 6 June 1896.
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