BIO: Henry Orth WITMAN, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 358.
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  WITMAN, HENRY ORTH, M.D., was born in January 22, 1830, in 
Harrisburg, Pa.  He was the oldest son of John Otto Witman and his wife 
Caroline Orth.  His father was a native of Reading, and came to 
Harrisburg as a clerk, under Surveyor General Hiester, subsequently 
studying medicine under Dr. Luther Reily, whose wife's sister he 
married.  And he was for upwards of forty years a successful 
practitioner, thirty years of which were in Halifax, Dauphin county.  
The son Henry Orth was educated in Harrisburg at Partridge's military 
academy, studying medicine with his father and attending medical 
lectures at Castleton, Vt., graduating afterwards from the Jefferson 
Medical College, of Philadelphia.  Until the war for the Union he 
practiced his profession at Halifax, in connection with his father.  
During the Rebellion he served as lieutenant of company E, Sixth 
regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer militia, and captain of company E, 
Thirty-sixth volunteer militia.  In 1866 he removed to Harrisburg, 
where he continued in the active practice of his profession, until his 
appointment in 1890 as medical examiner in the pension office at 
Washington.  He died in that city on the 13th of February, 1892.  Dr. 
Witman was a learned and conscientious physician, was perfectly 
reliable - could always be depended upon in any emergency.  His natural 
modesty and reserve operated somewhat against him as a physician, but 
it can be said of him that he was perfectly free from charlatanism in 
whatever form it may appear.  He married, October 11, 1866, Frederica 
Krause, daughter of Judge David Krause, of Norristown, Pa.  They had 
four children.