BIOS: George F. WITT and C. B. WALKER, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, ppg. 179/80

WITT and WALKER.

Among the business men of energy and ambition in the borough of Somerset, the 
members of this well known firm rank high.  The firm is comprised of George F. 
Witt and C. B. Walker.  The former was born in Somerset, September 10, 1877, son 
of George W. Witt and wife.  The father was a foundry man the best years of his 
life, and still resides in Somerset.  When about seventeen years of age, Mr. 
Witt commenced to learn the butcher's business with George Auman, of Somerset. 
He then attended school for a time, which better qualified him for the 
activities of a business career.  He then worked at the trade five or six years 
at Somerset and a suburb of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to 
his native borough and became one of the firm of Davis and Witt, which was 
succeeded by Witt and Baker, who finally sold the market, and Mr. Witt was 
employed in the Seibert market, the one he had formerly owned an interest in. 
Finally Mr. Witt purchased the business from Seibert and continued to operate it 
alone from 1904 to May 17, 1905, when he took for his business partner a farmer, 
C. B. Walker, whose farm home is situated about four miles from the borough of 
Somerset, Pennsylvania.  The firm is now known as Witt and Walker.  They occupy 
No. 6 North Cross Street, where they own a good one-story business house, which 
is on a leased lot.  They buy and slaughter nearly all the meats they sell.  
They also buy and handle fish, game and poultry and put up their own ice, and in 
the winter months make a specialty of curing meats. Mr. Walker, the junior 
member of the firm, attends largely to the buying of the stock consumed in the 
market. Much of this live stock is bought in Bedford county, Pennsylvania.  
Their market is indeed a model for neatness and well selected meats.  Orders by 
telephone are promptly delivered about the borough, in seasonable market hours.
Mr. Witt married, July 6, 1904, Lottie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker, 
farmers, living in Milford township, Somerset county, Pennsylvania.  By the 
union one child has been born: Harold Edward, September 11, 1905.
Of Mr. Walker, the junior member, it may be said that he was born May 23, 1858, 
the son of Levy and Mary Walker, of Somerset township, Somerset county, 
Pennsylvania.  He was reared to farm labor and still owns and operates a good 
farm in Somerset township, Somerset county.  He married, May 31, 1885, Mary Etta 
Spangler, daughter of Edward F. and Elizabeth Spangler, and was born July 30, 
1866.