BIO:  Daniel D. GITT, Butler Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 383

DANIEL D. GITT, farmer, P.O. Arendtsville, was born in Adams County, Penn., 
March 20, 1817, eldest son of Henry Gitt, who is a grandson of James Gitt, who 
emigrated from Ireland and settled near Hanover, Penn.  Henry Gitt had six sons 
and four daughters, seven of whom are now living.  He kept hotel for about forty 
years where the Philadelphia & Pittsburgh Turnpike crosses the Baltimore & 
Carlisle Turnpike, in Adams County; he also farmed extensively, having 700 acres 
in one body.  D. D. Gitt devoted a portion of his early life to merchandising; 
was engaged extensively in lumbering at one time; and traveled considerably as 
an agent for the Grove & Baker Sewing Machine Company.  He is the inventor of 
some useful articles, prominent among which is one to support in bed invalids in 
a sitting posture, at any desired angle, which is extensively used; also an 
invalid bed highly useful in cases of extreme helplessness or fractured limbs.  
In 1841 Mr. Gitt married Miss Hannah Wierman, daughter of Isaac Wierman, a 
prominent representative of Adams County in the State Legislature a number of 
its sessions.  Mr. Wierman died at the age of seventy-two years.  He was the 
grandson of William Wierman, who emigrated from Holland, and located on 1,200 
acres of land bought of William Penn’s sons on Bermudian Creek.  Mr. Gitt has 
three sons and one daughter:  Thomas W. is despatcher of trains at Harrisburg, 
Penn., for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (he married Rosa De Huff, of 
Mifflin, Penn., and they have two daughters and one son), M. Fannie B. married 
Henry Koser, a farmer, near Middletown, Adams County (they have one daughter 
and one son); Henry W. is weighmaster and collector at Harrisburg for the 
Pennsylvania Canal Company (he married Matha Siers, of Harrisburg; they have two 
daughters); Isaac C. is collector at Columbia, Penn., for the Pennsylvania Canal 
Company, and also a merchant (he married Georgie A. Bennet, of Columbia, Penn.)  
Mr. D. D. Gitt is an uncompromising Prohibitionist; he and family are church 
members.