-----Original Message----- From: Doug <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 27, 2000 11:38 PM Subject: Roll Call- FITTS & BLAIR >James Henry Fitts,b. Jan 1861, Petersburg,Va came to Blacksburg, Montgomery >Co,Va. around 1886 with wife Mary Mayo Blair from Richmond. James took a >professorship of engineering at Virginia Mech Institute in Blacksburg. They >had two children who were born in Blacksburg, John Blair Fitts 1890, & >Francis Fitts. John became an MD & Francis became a very prominent >photographer. James Henry Fitts was killed in a very tragic train accident >while on his way to Chicago for the worlds fair in 1893. >