Jacob Bitzer (January 16, 1865 – February 19, 1946) was an American businessman, real estate agent, and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.[3][5]
After he graduated from the Cutter School, Bitzer started a six-year apprentice working for the Welch & Griffiths saw works in Arlington.[2] At the end of his apprenticeship the company went out of business.[2] After he left the employ of Welch & Griffiths Bitzer went to work as a mill hand, on an irregular moulding machine, in the mill of Theodore Schwamb, a manufacturer of piano cases.[2]
In 1897, when the Schwamb Mill was incorporated, Bitzer became a stockholder, and clerk of the corporation. In 1908 Bitzer was the assistant superintendent of the mill in charge of the mill department.[7]
Republican National Convention
Bitzer was an alternative delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1912.[6]
Massachusetts House of Representatives
On November 3, 1914, Bitzer was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the twenty seventh Middlesex District, Bitzer received 1,372 in a three way race that included fellow Arlington Resident Cyrus Edwin Dallin; James F. McCarthy of Lexington, Massachusetts.[8]
Bitzer served in the legislature from 1915 to 1919.[3][4][6][9] During the 1917 legislative session Bitzer was a member of the Committee on Public Institutions,[10] and the Committee on Ways and Means.[11]
^Who's Who in State Politics, 1914, Boston, MA: Practical Politics, 1914, p. 288
^ abcdefCutter, William Richard (1908), Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, p. 2144
^ abcdHoward, Richard T. (1919), Public Officials of Massachusetts, 1919, Boston, MA: The Boston Review, p. 109
^ abHoward, Richard T. (1923), Public Officials of Massachusetts, 1920, Boston, MA: The Boston Review, p. 299
^"Jacob Bitzer". The Boston Globe. February 20, 1946. p. 19. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
^ abcBridgman, Arthur Milnor (1917), A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators Vol. XXVI, Stoughton, Ma: A. M. Bridgman, p. 112
^Cutter, William Richard (1908), Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, p. 2145
^Swan, Charles W. (1915), Annual Report, Town of Lexington, Massachusetts, Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington, Massachusetts, p. 99
^Who's Who in State Politics, 1918, Boston, MA: Practical Politics, 1918, p. 126
^Bridgman, Arthur Milnor (1917), A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators Vol. XXVI, Stoughton, Ma: A. M. Bridgman, p. 57
^Bridgman, Arthur Milnor (1917), A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators Vol. XXVI, Stoughton, Ma: A. M. Bridgman, p. 79
