BIO: Reuben E. 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 350.
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  WITMAN, R. E., publisher, No. 103 North Second street, Harrisburg, 
Pa., was born in the State of New York, February 3, 1858, and is the 
son of D. S. and Margaret (Brewer) Witman.  The grandfather, 
Christopher, was a tanner by trade and had a family of three sons.  The 
parents were both natives of New York, the father being born there in 
1823.  He was engaged in farming and in the lumber business during his 
entire life.  He was married to Miss Margaret Putman, by whom he had 
six children, of whom but two survive:  Smith, in the lumber business, 
Gundan, Pa., and R. E.  He died April 13, 1895.  R. E. attended the 
public schools until seventeen years of age, when he went to New York 
and taught school at Caneville for two years.  In 1881 he began selling 
books, and soon received a good position with the Penn Publishing 
Company.  He was afterwards taken in as a partner and continued in the 
firm four years, when he withdrew and established the firm of R. E. 
Witman and Company in 1891 at Harrisburg, in which he is interested at 
the present time.  He was married, February 14, 1884, to Miss Mutam 
Beecher, daughter of Lyman and Susan (Kimble) Beecher, and a distant 
relative of Henry Ward Beecher, of New York.  Their children are:  
Grace M., Fanny M., and Harry E.  Mrs. Witman's parents were both 
natives of New York and had a family of three children:  Bertha, Mutam, 
and Mabel.  The mother still survives and resides in New York.  In 
politics Mr. Witman is a Republican and he is a member of the Grace 
Methodist church.  The parents of both Mr. and Mrs. Witman were members 
of the Baptist church. 

1870 Chautauqua, New York census -
Dexter Whitman, 44
Margrate Whitman, 43
Smith Whitman, 22
Reuben Whitman 11
Phebe Whitman, 4

1880 Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York census -
Reuben E. Whitman, 22, Traveling agent