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.