Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Witmer, B.M. 1816 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 3, 2006, 10:44 am Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Washington Township p. 761& 762 B.M. Witmer, M.D., was born in Lancaster County, Pa., in 1816, a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Witmer, natives of Pennsylvania. His parents came to Indiana in 1823, and settled in Washington Township, Wayne County, where they both died, his father age seventy-one years and his mother aged eighty-two years. They had a family of five children---Martha M., John, B. M., Jacob and Rudolph. John and B.M. are the only ones living. After receiving a limited education in the early schools, B.M., when eighteen years of age, began the study of medicine. He first began reading in the old school, but after deliberate investigation he chose the eclectic system, and after great and persistent opposition from the old practitioners has built up a large and lucrative practice, having proved himself a skillful and successful physician. He of late years has withdrawn from general practice, attending only such cases as demand his personal attention. He is a member of the Christian church, and one of its most zealous workers. Dr. Witmer was married in 1846 to Elizabeth, daughter of William and Charlotte McGrew. They have had six children---Wooster M. C., Cassius M., Nora A., Alphareta, Mortimor and Idora A., the two latter deceased. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/witmer11gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb