Person:Jacob Fitting (2)

In the 1850 census for Brooklyn, 9th Ward, King's Co., New York, "Jacob Felting" is 28, laborer, from Germany, living with Adam Mehl, gardener. {p. 63} Adam's son Philip Mehl, who later married Jacob's daughter Anna, is age 2.

 I believe Jacob is the "Jacob Footing" listed in the 1860 US Census in New York City.  This Jacob, age 40 from Germany, was a milkman living with his wife Catharine, age 30 from Brest, and his two sons Christoper and Jacob, ages 4 and 2. {New York, Ward 22, Div. 4, p.24}
  According to family history, Jacob and his brother served in the Civil War.  More than 200,000 German immigrants served in the Union Army, including several famous all-German regiments.  According to a letter from Helen Voorman Fitting, the brother was lost 'out west' after the war.
  In 1870, he is probably the 'Jacob Feeting' living in New York, age 51, a milkman from Hesse-Darmstadt.  His wife Catharine, from "Beisrn Ger"(Bayern?), is 42, and they have children Cristian 14; Jacob 12; John 8; Annie 3; and George 1 year. Jacob is listed as a male citizen of US.  {New York, 22nd Ward, 16th Dist., p. 55}
 According to email communication from a descendant of Anna Fitting Mehl, Jacob remarried after his wife Catherine Foster passed on. 
 This means that he is most probably the Jacob Fitting, age 56 [!] in the 1880 US Census living on West 38th Street in New York City with wife Kate, age 34 from Germany, and (her?) children John Henry Geiler age 12, Maggie [Geilear?] 10, George 8, Lewie 5, Annie [Fitting?] 13; and [by this marriage?] a 3 month old daughter Lizzie Fitting. {ED 395, p. 19}    
  NOTE: I have not found Jacob Fitting II or his brothers John and George in the 1880 census.  
 Jacob Frederick was "a supervisor on the old horse cars [in NYC], the Eighth Ave Line" and worked up near Central Park.  Jacob's son George described him as "a very distinguished and good looking man -- larger in statue than any of his sons of whom there were four."  It was his impression the family came from Dresden. {letter by Helen Voorman Fitting}
 His death date is based on information from a Geilear researcher. {private email, 22 Jan 2003}

1.   Tom and Liz Fitting. Fitting Family History. (abt 1979).
2.   Helen [Voorman Fitting]. personal letter to Paul Fitting. (handwritten, dated 29 April 1955).