Cumberland County, Maine - Samuel Fitts
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Biography
Samuel Fitts
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 552


Samuel Fitts, one of the oldest and most highly respected members of the farming
community of Freeport, Me., was born in the house which is now his home, October
31, 1817. He is a son of Samuel and Eleanor (Googins) Fitts, both natives of
Maine, the former born in Freeport, the latter in Old Orchard. Mr. Fitts's
paternal grandfather, John Fitts, was one of the pioneer settlers of Freeport.
He was skilled in wood-working, manufacturing chairs, wheels, and spinning-
wheels, and making articles of furniture of every description. He was an
industrious and thrifty man, and owned part of the farm where his grandson now
lives, dying at the age of seventy in the house whose roof still shelters his
posterity. He reared five children, Samuel, our subject's father, being the
second son.

Samuel Fitts, Sr., was a cabinet-maker and was also extensively engaged in
farming. He was a hard-working and successful man, who attained a fair degree of
prosperity, owning the property which is now held by his son. He was a Democrat
in politics. In religious, belief he was a Methodist, but was not a professing
member of the church. He died in the old home at the age of eighty-four, his
wife living to be nearly eighty-eight. They were the parents of ten children,
six of whom have passed away, named as follows: Ebenezer, Eleanor, Joseph G.,
Elmira, Mary, and Simeon P. The survivors are: Susan, wife of Joseph Davis, of
Freeport; John, a grocery dealer of Portland; Elizabeth, wife of James
T. Tuttle, of Yarmouth, Me.; and Samuel, who is the eldest.

Samuel Fitts spent his early boyhood on the home farm. He went to sea when
fifteen years of age, and for ten years braved the perils of the treacherous
deep, then returning to the old home, where he has lived ever since. He has one
hundred acres of good land, which he cultivated for many years with profitable
results. He erected most of the buildings on the estate and made many radical
improvements during his years of activity. He worked hard for the prosperity
which he now enjoys, and is well known throughout the locality as one of the
most successful as well as one of the oldest farmers of Freeport. Politically,
he favors the Democratic party. On religious subjects he has liberal ideas. His
nephew and namesake, Samuel Fitts, third, who resides with him, renting and
carrying on the farm, represents the fourth generation which has lived on the
homestead. This house is one of the landmarks of Freeport, solid and comfortable
to-day as it was one hundred years ago.