Ashbel P. Fitch

Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (October 8, 1848 – May 4, 1904) was an American lawyer, financier, and politician. He prepared for college at Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts, before spending several years at the Universities of Jena and Berlin in Germany. At the University of Jena, he joined the prestigious student society Corps Franconia Jena. Afterwards he took a course at Columbia Law School in New York City. Wrote The New York Times, "at the first election for Greater New York the Republicans placed him in nomination [for Controller of the city] and he was swept out of power by the Tammany tidal wave." The service was held on May 6 at his home,

His son Ashbel P. Fitch also became a lawyer, at Fitch & Grant in New York at 67 Wall Street. A prominent member of the Manhattan Club, he was involved in several major cases, including a 1923 judgement to Richard Croker concerning loans to his father. He died on May 21, 1926, at the age of 49.