Fred B. Pitcher

He was the son of Seymour H. Pitcher. He attended the common schools and Adams Collegiate Institute. He graduated B.S. from Cornell University in 1888. Then he studied law in Watertown, was admitted to the bar in 1890, and practiced. He was Corporation Counsel of Watertown from 1898 to 1901; and District Attorney of Jefferson County from 1904 to 1910.

Pitcher was a member of the New York State Senate (37th D.) from 1919 to 1922, sitting in the 142nd, 143rd, 144th and 145th New York State Legislatures.

He died on September 2, 1924, in his law office in Watertown, New York, of a stroke; and was buried at the Adams Rural Cemetery.

• [http://www.onlinebiographies.info/ny/jeff/pitcher-fb.htm Bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924060553/http://www.onlinebiographies.info/ny/jeff/pitcher-fb.htm |date=2015-09-24 }} transcribed from Our County and Its People: a Descriptive Work on Jefferson County, New York by Edgar C. Emerson (1898)
• [http://www.fultonhistory.com/Process%20small/Newspapers/Adams%20NY%20Jefferson%20County%20Journal/Adams%20NY%20Jefferson%20County%20Journal%201924.pdf/Newspaper%20Adams%20NY%20Jefferson%20County%20Journal%201924%20-%200241.pdf DEATH OF FRED B. PITCHER] in the Jefferson County Journal on September 3, 1924

• [http://www.oswegocountygovernments.com/pages/senate.php?member=f_pitcher Bio] at Oswego County's Guide to Government (with portrait)

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