Mariette Newman Fitch

Mariette Newman Fitch was born in Rockville, Connecticut, on 8 May 1875. She was the daughter of Charlotte and Spencer Samuel Fitch (b. 1846), and the sister of Walter S. Fitch. She began studying piano at age six and taught music in Hartford, Manchester, and Rockville, Connecticut, for nearly thirty years. She was the organist for the Talcottville Church in Talcottville, and for the Center Church in Manchester and the Union Congregational and Methodist churches, both in Rockville, Connecticut. She was also active in the early women's rights movement, serving as one of the first women on the Vernon Board of Education. Mariette Newman Fitch died in Rockville, Connecticut, on 19 March 1976, at age 100.