BIO: William Duttera, Sr., Littlestown, Adams County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Kathy Francis Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ _______________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886 _______________________________________________ Part III, History of Adams County, Page 422 WILLIAM DUTTERA, Sr., retired, P.O. Littlestown. The Duttera family is of German origin and the first ancestor of our subject in America was Michael Duttera, who bought 100 acres of land thirty miles from Philadelphia over 150 years ago. He was a zealous member of the German Reformed Church, and one of the founders of what is now known as Christ Church, in Union Township. He reared a family of children in York County, where he died at a good old age. The following are the names of his sons: Conrad, John, Philip and Michael. Conrad was born in York County, and when a young man came to Adams County and bought a farm in Union Township, about two miles north of Littlestown, where he built a house in 1772, and lived there the balance of his long life. This house is still standing, and is occupied by Edwin Slifer. He had a large family of children, as follows: Julian Margaret, Conrad, Elizabeth, Mary Margaret, John, Frederick, Julian, John Michael, Anna Mary and George. The last named, George, was born in Union Township in 1775, and lived on the old homestead until he died in 1864. He was a highly respected and honored citizen, a prominent member of the Reformed Church, and a member of the building committee on the rebuilding of Christ Church edifice. He was twice married, first to Elizabeth Weikert, who bore him nine children, of whom John, Elizabeth, Julian and George are deceased, and Catherine, William, James, Mary and Rufus are still living. His first wife died in 1830, and he married for his second wife Lydia Stonesifer, by whom there were two children: Harried (deceased) and Sarah, who still survived. William Duttera, a son of George and Elizabeth (Weikert) Duttera, was born in Union Township October 20, 1815. When between the age of seventeen and eighteen he began to learn the tanner’s trade in Carroll County, Md. Having completed his trade, he returned to Littlestown and started a tannery about the year 1836. The business he carried on for upward of forty years, and in 1881 gave up the business to his sons, and since then has lived partially retired, attending only to his property and two farms, adjoining the borough of Littlestown, of 188 acres of land. Mr. Duttera is a Democrat, and has served his township in nearly all of its local offices. He is a member of the Reformed Church, of which he has served as trustee and treasurer for many years, and is one of the respected and substantial citizens of the county. He has been twice married, first to Louisa Kohler, March 23, 1837; she bore him six children: Amos, George K., Louisa C., William S., Worthington A. and Charles H. Mrs. Louisa Duttera dying May 19, 1885. Mr. Duttera then married, November 19, 1885, Agnes J. Kohler.