Ezra Hasbrouck Fitch (September 27, 1865 – June 16, 1930) was an American real estate developer and hobbyist outdoorsman.

[1][2] A wealthy New York City manager, Fitch began as one of Abercrombie's VIP customers.

[3] Ezra Hasbrouck Fitch was born September 27, 1865, in Coxsackie, Greene County, New York.

Ezra spent his early years growing up at the Roswell Reed estate on the banks of the Hudson in Coxsackie built by his grandfather around 1850.

The estate included a large Gothic Revival mansion, numerous dependent structures and a dock on the river from which the family conducted a profitable freighting business.

[8][9] She was the daughter of Stephen Buckingham Sturges (1827–1897), a banker, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, and Sarah Minerva Cary (1833-) of Syracuse, New York.

[10] He was engaged as a real estate developer in Kingston, New York, trading as Jenkins & Fitch.

He enjoyed the outdoors, and spent his leisure time yachting, climbing the Adirondacks and fishing in the streams of the Catskills.

[12] He died on June 16, 1930, on his newly built 60-foot cruising yacht Content at Santa Barbara, California, only a few days after moving on to the boat.

Fitch also built a hotel on Abeel Street in Kingston to accommodate guests on his boats.