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RAYMOND L.
FITCH
Raymond L. Fitch, consultant, mechanical and metallurgical engineer, was born at Decorah, Iowa, November 11, 1893. He is the son of Dr. Martin B. and Isabelle (Nelson) Fitch, and direct lineal descendant of Thomas Fitch who settled in Connecticut in 1638.
Mr. Fitch studied at Valder College from 1912 to 1916; then at Toledo University, from 1927 to 1932. He worked as a tool and diemaker from 1919 to 1927; tool engineer from 1927 to 1932; principal administrative procurement inspector for the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1932 to 1941; consultant on Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering problems from 1941 to 1945; proprietor of an electrical store from 1942 to 1944; president of the Firan Co.1946 to date; director of Commercial Inspection Service laboratories from 1951 to date; lecturer on “Non destructive Testing of Metals”; inventor of the Ferroscope, a device for detecting flaws in steel; inventor of the Glomaster electric infra-red space heater; and, consulting engineer.
He is a member of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, American Society for Metals, American Society for Testing Materials, American Welding Society, Society of Automotive Engineers, National Aeronautical Association, American Society of Tool Engineers, American Ordnance Association; American Legion, Veterans’ Service League, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Society of Founders and Patriots, and Allied Scientists of the World.
Mr. Fitch married Evelyn M. Orth, December 21, 1946, and resides at 4444 Lockwood Avenue, Los Angeles 29, California.
Offices: 1735-39 Berkeley Street, Santa Monica, California.
3016 Rowena Avenue, Los Angeles 39, California.
Transcribed 9-11-14 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent Californians
1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor.
Page 495, C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo Alto, California,
1953.
© 2014 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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