Biographical Sketch of J. W. Witton, Gentry County, Missouri

>From "History of Gentry and Worth Counties", Biographical Sketches of
the Bench and Bar,  St. Joseph, Mo.: National Historical Company, 1882.

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J. W. Witton is a native of Missouri, and was born in Grundy County, on
the 23rd day of June, 1855.  For two years Mr. Witton was a student at
Central College, Fayette, Missouri, leaving their prior to the spring 
of 1875, when he commenced the study of law under Colonel J. H. Shank-
lin.  In the fall of 1877 he was admitted to the bar at Hillsborough, 
Hill County, Texas, whither he had gone to begin the practice of his
profession.  He returned to Missouri in 1879, and resumed the practice
of law in May, 1881, at Stanberry, Gentry County, and came to Albany in
October, 1881, where he now resides, engaged in the practice of his
profession.

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