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Fitch, George, 1877-1915We have 1 book for this author.This article is about George Fitch the author. For the businessman and politician, see George B. Fitch.
Fitch was born in Galva, Illinois. He graduated from Knox College in 1897. He worked as a reporter for a number of midwest newspapers and eventually became frequently published in national magazines, breaking in with his popular "Megaphone" series satirizing urban America. He also penned a syndicated column called "Vest Pocket Essays". He was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1912. His alma mater Knox College was the basis of a series of popular stories set at "Good Old Siwash College". First appearing in the Saturday Evening Post in 1908, they focused on characters like the Swede Ole Skjarsen, Petey Simmons, and the fraternity Eta Bita Pie. The Siwash stories were the basis for the movie Those Were the Days (1940) starring William Holden as Simmons, which was filmed at Knox. Fitch died of a ruptured appendix while visiting his sister Louise in California at the age of 38. References
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