BIO:  Washington W. WITHEROW, Cumberland 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 404

WASHINGTON W. WITHEROW, miller and farmer, P.O. Green Mount, born near 
Fairfield, Adams Co., Penn., February 22, 1833, is a son of David and Nancy 
(Walker) Witherow, natives of Pennsylvania, and of Scotch-Irish descent.  His 
father was a mill-wright by trade, and in early life pursued that occupation, 
but later followed farming.  He died when our subject was fourteen years old.  
He had six children, all of whom grew to maturity, Washington W. being the 
fifth.  Our subject was reared on the farm, attended the common schools of 
Fairfield, and worked at both farming and milling until 1865, when he bought the 
mill and property and his since carried on the business himself.  In purchasing 
this mill he bought out the heirs, and settled a matter that had been in 
litigation for upward of forty years.  In the mill are two sets of buhrs, one 
for grinding chop feed, and the other for making flour; and attached to it is a 
small mill.  In connection with the milling business, Mr. Witherow is engaged in 
farming.  In 1863 he enlisted in Company B, in a regiment of Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, and served as a non-commissioned officer until he was honorably 
discharged in 1864.  In 1861 Mr. Witherow was married to Mary Crooks, of Scotch-
Irish origin, daughter of Rev. Robert Crooks, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and to them were born seven children:  Margaret Danner; Joseph Stewart, who is a 
miller and superintends the mill; Emmet Williams (deceased); Robert Crooks, a 
farmer; David Walker, Emma Elizabeth, Mary Louisa (deceased).  The family is 
identified with the Presbyterian Church.